[Development] CI configuration changes

[Sarajärvi Tony]

Hi

Here's a wiki page describing the planned changed along with a bit of version information of the tools:

http://qt-project.org/wiki/Qt-5.5.0-tools-and-versions

-Tony

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> bounces+tony.sarajarvi=theqtcompany.com at qt-project.org] On Behalf Of
> Rutledge Shawn
> Sent: 21. tammikuuta 2015 9:41
> To: Turunen Tuukka
> Cc: Thiago Macieira; development at qt-project.org
> Subject: Re: [Development] CI configuration changes
> 
> 
> On 21 Jan 2015, at 08:19, Turunen Tuukka
> <tuukka.turunen at theqtcompany.com> wrote:
> 
> >
> > On 20/01/15 21:44, "Thiago Macieira" <thiago.macieira at intel.com> wrote:
> >
> >> On Tuesday 20 January 2015 19:21:04 Sarajärvi Tony wrote:
> >>>> What's your timeline for this?
> >>>
> >>> If I don't get any objections here, I could start the work immediately.
> >>> Goal
> >>> is to do it right away, so that we have time to verify the platforms
> >>> before
> >>> 5.5 feature freeze.
> >>>> If you're looking at this for before the Qt 5.5
> >>>> feature freeze, OS X 10.7 will break and will be effectively
> >>> unsupported
> >>>> for 5.5 because I won't bother fixing forkfd for it.
> >>>
> >>> My understanding is that OS X 10.7 is allowed to break in 5.5.
> >>
> >> Usually we give people a one version notice... So we shouldn't allow it
> >> to
> >> break in 5.5, but announce that support drops in 5.6.
> >
> > OS X 10.7 has been listed as Tier 2 already for Qt 5.4:
> > http://doc.qt.io/qt-5/supported-platforms.html
> >
> > That said, we should of course carefully consider whether or not it is
> > supported with Qt 5.5.
> 
> Maybe we should leave it in CI for the 5.5 timeframe.  What would we have
> to give up to do that?
> 
> This is an example of why I'd like our CI system to be transformed into a
> distributed one: it should be possible for anyone to add machines to the pool.
> Even if some of them are non-binding. e.g. a contributed machine would
> only be able to do +1/-1 on a patch, as a warning that a certain patch will
> break a tier 2 platform.  There are many such platforms which we aren't
> testing.
> 
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