[Development] Qt 5.3 beta release coming soon

Bruno Souza Cabrral bcabral at uw.edu
Tue Mar 18 21:02:41 CET 2014


Sure, but I feel that the beta tag are not considered a "dumb-straight from
git" for Qt users. They expect some minimal quality for a build to be
considered a beta.

I often report bugs, but I'm still using alpha because this bug is a major
blocker to me. This bug is not only a inconvenience, but make the app
completely untestable to users of a major paradigm (QtQuick). It also
affect multiple OS.

QtCreator is also impacted by this, but apparently the builds are made with
5.2.

Maybe others developers would feel the same, and simply reject the beta.
Resulting in less hands to test the release and consequently less quality
in the release ?

On Mar 18, 2014 3:23 PM, "Turunen Tuukka" <Tuukka.Turunen at digia.com> wrote:

>
> Hi,
>
> Without taking a stand on that item as such, Jani is right in that beta is
> not supposed to be used in production. There can be regressions to earlier
> functionality. New functionality should work and otherwise things should
> of course be in a usable level. We are making beta directly out of stable,
> so the content of items (and thus possible regressions) are not controlled
> by the release team.
>
> It is important to get beta out fast so that there is enough time for
> users to comment on the new functionality and also for developers to react
> to the comments and improve.
>
> If beta-1 turns out to be bad, we make beta-2. Typically we have been able
> to continue directly to RC phase.
>
> Yours,
>
>                         Tuukka
>
>
> On 18/03/14 19:05, "Heikkinen Jani" <Jani.Heikkinen at digia.com> wrote:
>
> >Hi all,
> >Is this really so critical issue that it blocks us to release beta? I
> >agree we cannot release final with this one but I am wondering why this
> >should block the beta? Maybe I didn't fully understood the issue but for
> >me it seems this doesn't prevent usage but looks ugly. Beta is for API
> >review and it is acceptable there is still some issues left...
> >
> >Br,
> >Jani
> >
> >> -----Original Message-----
> >> From: development-bounces+jani.heikkinen=digia.com at qt-project.org
> >> [mailto:development-bounces+jani.heikkinen=digia.com at qt-project.org]
> >> On Behalf Of Bruno Souza Cabral
> >> Sent: 18. maaliskuuta 2014 16:03
> >> To: development at qt-project.org
> >> Subject: [Development] Qt 5.3 beta release coming soon
> >>
> >> The 5.3 beta shall not be released without fixing
> >> https://bugreports.qt-project.org/browse/QTBUG-37422 first.
> >> It is a very critical bug, and a regression from Alpha.
> >>
> >> Basically it renders most of QtQuick interfaces, including Qt Quick
> >>Widgets,
> >> useless in Windows and other systems.
> >>
> >>
> >> > Hi all,
> >> >
> >> > Qt 5.3 beta release is planned to happen this Thursday. At the moment
> >> we
> >> > don't have final beta packages available for your testing :( Most
> >>probably
> >> > those will be available tomorrow morning.
> >> >
> >> > But to be ready for Beta please remember to update all new Qt5.3
> >> features
> >> > in wiki: http://qt-project.org/wiki/New-Features-in-Qt-5.3 and add
> all
> >> > known issues here: http://qt-project.org/wiki/Qt530-beta1-KnownIssues
> >> >
> >> > Br,
> >> > Jani
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