[Development] Qt 4.6.5 and 4.7.6 release candidates available

[Thiago Macieira]

On terça-feira, 19 de fevereiro de 2013 16.42.44, Turunen Tuukka wrote:
> Hi Thiago,
> 
> The whole idea of 4.6.5 and 4.7.6 is to unfork these and unify. It has
> never been about making a Digia specific release. We have no intention to
> make any Digia specific 4.6 and 4.7 release - quite the opposite - we wish
> to unify those releases that have been done earlier (and even then we
> actually preferred in having the 4.6.4 and 4.7.5 release to be in the
> right place, which was not possible at the time).

That's a great plan. But the plan does not seem to match reality.

> It is hard to change history, but we can at least come up with such a
> solution that where 4.6 and 4.7 branches end things are somewhat aligned.
> 
> As discussed earlier the rationale for making 4.6.5 and 4.7.6 releases is:
> 
> -> Do the copyrights change also in packages
> -> Address important security vulnerabilities
> -> "Unfork" 4.6 and 4.7 branches
> 
> Š and all this done in such a way that does not take overwhelmingly high
> amount of time as it is away from Qt 5 and 4.8 work.
> 
> What we are proposing is somewhat the same as you listed as 'Plan II'.

Plan II is fine. But note what I said about the branch:

> >Alternative plan (Plan II):
> >1) release Qt Project's 4.7.6 and announce that we're skipping one
> >version
> >number to align with a past commercial release by Digia, but that it
> >won't
> >happen again. This release must come from the 4.7 branch, not the
> >4.7-digia
> >branch.
> >
> >2) after that, Digia is allowed to release 4.7.6-digia.

If we want to unify, then we need to merge the 4.7-digia branch into 4.7. If 
that's the plan, I will carefully review all the changes in that merge that 
apply to the modules I maintain.

Whether we do that before or after the release, I don't care. What I care 
about is that the Qt Project's 4.7.5 or 4.7.6 release come from the 4.7 
branch. Ditto for the 4.6.5 release and the 4.6 branch.

-- 
Thiago Macieira - thiago.macieira (AT) intel.com
  Software Architect - Intel Open Source Technology Center
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