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

[Knoll Lars]

On 11/08/14 03:10, "Thiago Macieira" <thiago.macieira at intel.com> wrote:

>On Monday 11 August 2014 00:09:59 Oswald Buddenhagen wrote:
>> > You're missing the obvious: there was a change and people were not
>>ready
>> > for it.
>> 
>> that's hardly an argument, given that everybody who paid any attention
>> at all knew that it would be *somehow* quite different (due to the
>> different branching model).
>
>That's the entire argument. You can't dismiss it. Of course it would be
>different, but without communication explaining how it would happen,
>everyone 
>assumed it would be close to the previous procedures.
>
>But let's move on. What's done is done and we've learnt the lesson:
>communication.

Yes. I am not saying it was wrong neither. It was simply a small surprise
as it happened differently before. Yes, I could have thought that the new
branching scheme will make this simpler, but often you tend to forget
about it.

In any case, the branching seems to have gone with a lot issues than
before, as we hoped it would be. So the new branching scheme seems to be
improving things :)

Cheers,
Lars

>
>> > Which, again, is a change from previous procedure. In past times, as a
>> > member of the release team, I had the right to stage things past the
>> > feature freeze, to get things integrated that failed due to unrelated
>>CI
>> > failures and commits that were granted exception from the freeze.
>> 
>> i'll remind you that you did this *after* i explicitly told you not to
>> "help" without prior coordination with me. there is a line between
>> "being taken by surprise" and "being kinda obstinate".
>
>I did ping you on IRC for coordination. Since you didn't reply, I
>proceeded 
>according to previous rules. (No, it was not after midnight in your
>timezone)
>
>> > I can't get the CI to tell me if there's anything wrong. Even if I
>> > stage now (which I have done), it will run on Monday morning, at a
>> > time at which I'll be busy packing. I'll get home in Portland on
>> > Tuesday evening UTC, close to midnight Wednesday. That'll be my first
>> > chance to see if any of my integrations failed due to CI issues.
>> 
>> and why would any of that be bad? it's not like anything is on fire. you
>> can do other things in the mean time, which you totally do have enough
>> to choose from.
>
>It's time lost. Right now, I am 5 hours behind Central European timezone
>and I 
>have some 8-9 hours of overlap with possible reviewers. Once I get back
>home, 
>the overlap reduces to 5-6 hours, minus the time I have to spend doing
>the 
>rest of $DAYJOB. That means I'll have about 4-6 hours for Qt throughout
>the 
>rest of this week.
>
>-- 
>Thiago Macieira - thiago.macieira (AT) intel.com
>  Software Architect - Intel Open Source Technology Center
>
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