[Development] To patch release or not (was: Bug fixes to Stable or Dev branch?)

[Thiago Macieira]

Em qui 06 fev 2014, às 09:39:23, Gladhorn Frederik escreveu:
> just like Albert said, it's not so much about the time until the next
> release. It's more about delivering even more stable Qt releases with less
> changes that are more reliable. While I generally think that we are doing
> quite a good job in improving the quality of Qt with both minor and patch
> releases, some people really appreciate releases with those few bug fixes
> like Albert mentioned. Looking at the stable branch it seems like there are
> 116 commits for qtbase alone in the stable branch.

See the big green area at the right side:
http://www.macieira.org/~thiago/qt-stats/current/qt.branch.absolute.png

> I have heard from quite a few people that they would really appreciate those
> patch releases and ideally we get into the habit of making releases so
> smooth that it doesn't cost any extra effort. (we're not quite there but
> getting better and better at making releases)

We should consider making releases of 5.2.x after 5.3's alpha even. 5.3.0 is 
some 3 months away.

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