[Development] [Releasing] HEADS UP: Qt 5.4 feature freeze - branch created

[Knoll Lars]

On 10/08/14 17:02, "Thiago Macieira" <thiago.macieira at intel.com> wrote:

>On Sunday 10 August 2014 14:27:51 Knoll Lars wrote:
>> >It should, since it reflects the agreed-upon way of doing things. It's
>> >also how 
>> >we've done it for the past 4 feature releases. You can't change the
>> >procedure 
>> >without announcing ahead of time and letting people comment.
>> 
>> I think I’m missing a mail here. But if this is about me asking for a
>> different class name for QvolumeInfo, I don’t see this as an issue (see
>> below).
>
>It's about integrating the class. When Marc asked for a freeze exception,
>I 
>suggested and you agreed that we would have the weekend to work on this
>and 
>that the 5.4 branch would be created on Monday. Just like it was done for
>the 
>past 4 feature releases.
>
>Well, the branch was created on Saturday halfway through the day and the
>"dev" 
>branch moved to 5.5 through administrative action. That's the first time
>this 
>happens and there was no discussion or prior warning.

Yeah, that caught me a bit by surprise as well.
>
>We lose 24 hours worth of integration+fix attempts and another 36 hours
>due to 
>my unavailability in the new integration window. So other people please
>take 
>care of reviewing and approving Ivan's changes in the next 48 hours.

As said, I’m ok to commit it to the 5.4 branch during the next week.

Cheers,
Lars