[Development] One 'qt' branch to rule 'em all!

[Paul Olav Tvete]

On Tuesday 01 April 2014 11:12:18 Koehne Kai wrote:
> So, here is what we will do:
> - create one branch named 'qt' out of current stable
> - block any other branches in gerrit
> - move on with this branch, and announce the current status of it (open for
> features, feature freeze, hardening...) on the mailing list
[...]
> If there are no fundamental objections I'd like to see this into action as
> early as possible, to not risk the 5.3.0 release (i.e. next week Thursday,
> when we originally planned to merge to release branch).

This is indeed great news! We have used this model previously in the Trolltech 
days, and our productivity back then was a lot higher: we only needed four 
developers to release Qt 1.0.

- Paul