[Development] Branches and time based releases

[Uwe Rathmann]

On Mon, 24 Feb 2014 21:11:47 +0000, Knoll Lars wrote:

> So to sum it up, I believe the release model we currently have works
> pretty well, certainly better than anything we have had in the past.

Maybe I'm allowed to throw in the point of view of a user:

last week we had the discussion about which version of Qt to use for a 
new project.

What we have seen with Qt5 so far were 5.x.0 releases that were time - 
not quality - driven + only few maintenance releases ( 2 for 5.0, 1 for 
5.1 and 5.2 ). In the past there have also been less stable versions of 
Qt, but more maintenance releases ( f.e 4 for 4.7 and 4.6 ) we could 
trust.

So our conclusion was that we have a regression in quality - exactly 
because of the time based releases - and to act very conservative with Qt 
version updates.

Time based releases might be good for creating more versions in time, but 
what is it worth, when users don't follow anymore ?   

Uwe

PS: our discussion ended with a decision for Qt 5.1 because of not 
trusting all the changes that happened under the hood of Qt 5.2