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

[Thiago Macieira]

On Sunday 10 August 2014 18:51:53 Oswald Buddenhagen wrote:
> On Sun, Aug 10, 2014 at 03:41:02PM +0000, Knoll Lars wrote:
> > >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.
> 
> why would it?

Because it changed compared to previous times. It's irrelevant that the 
previous times required such an action for technical reasons: it happened that 
way. Now it happened differently.

> > As said, I’m ok to commit it to the 5.4 branch during the next week.
> 
> to me this is a rather obvious interpretation of "freeze exception",
> which is why it's beyond me why anyone would get upset about me NOT
> holding up integrations on dev even longer than planned (which would be
> a logical consequence of delaying the 5.4 branch creation).

I wouldn't be upset if you had done what you say here. You didn't.

You did block dev by introducing a broken change and did not enable 5.4 (which 
should include the moving of the pending changes from dev to 5.4).

> speaking of which, dev will be opened again early tuesday.

So it's not open.

> fwiw, the first batch of retargetings is done. you can already stage,
> even though it probably won't start integrating until monday.

Ok, so I can get back to work around midnight Wednesday UTC. Great.

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