[Development] Bug fixes to Stable or Dev branch?

[Albert Astals Cid]

On Wednesday 05 February 2014 17:45:35 Turunen Tuukka wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Regarding Qt 5.2.2 - let's see how well 5.2.1 is received. We have now 1,5
> months shorter cycle than the usual 6 months for Qt 5.3. I agree that it
> was a long wait between 5.1.1 and 5.2.0.

FWIW with my Canonical hat we would appreciate a 5.2.x release with 
https://bugreports.qt-project.org/browse/QTBUG-36430 and 
https://bugreports.qt-project.org/browse/QTBUG-36289 fixed. We can distro-
patch but having it in an official release makes it easier for everyone.

Cheers,
  Albert

> 
> Yours,
> 
> Tuukka
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> käyttäjän Gladhorn Frederik [Frederik.Gladhorn at digia.com]
> puolesta Lähetetty: 5. helmikuuta 2014 17:46
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> Aihe: Re: [Development] Bug fixes to Stable or Dev branch?
> 
> We have the branch model to make it easy to choose the right branch, usually
> without worrying about the releases too much.
> 
> "Normal" bug fixes go always to stable.
> Stable is guaranteed to be merged into dev before the next release, so
> you'll never have to worry, no patch gets lost.
> 
> Show stoppers just before the release might have to go into the release
> branch, this should really be the exception.
> 
> Sometimes a bug is less critical and/or involves huge changes, these may
> have to go into the dev branch pending the approvers and your judgement.
> 
> By the way, I heard quite a few requests for more patch releases, maybe we
> should aim for 5.2.2 with hopefully only stability improvements.
> 
> Greetings,
> Frederik
> 
> ________________________________________
> From: development-bounces+frederik.gladhorn=digia.com at qt-project.org
> [development-bounces+frederik.gladhorn=digia.com at qt-project.org] on behalf
> of Giuseppe D'Angelo [dangelog at gmail.com] Sent: Wednesday, February 05,
> 2014 4:19 PM
> To: jlayt at kde.org
> Cc: development at qt-project.org
> Subject: Re: [Development] Bug fixes to Stable or Dev branch?
> 
> On 5 February 2014 15:55, John Layt <jlayt at kde.org> wrote:
> > Hi,
> > 
> > I've seeing contradictory advice on Gerrit as to which branch to push bug-
> > fixes to, some say there will be no 5.2.2 so to use dev instead, others
> > say to keep using stable in case there is.  What is the current
> > "official" policy?
> > 
> > Oh, and please remember when making such decisions to clearly communicate
> > them to this list, not everyone is in the office or on IRC.
> 
> The policy didn't change, see "Where to push a change?"
> 
> http://qt-project.org/wiki/Branch-Guidelines
> 
> It doesn't matter that 5.2.2 is not planned. If the change qualifies
> for stable, push it to stable.
> 
> --
> Giuseppe D'Angelo
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