[Development] QtCS: Long Term Release discussion

[André Somers]

Thiago Macieira schreef op 17-6-2015 om 08:57:
> On Wednesday 17 June 2015 08:33:50 Giuseppe D'Angelo wrote:
>> On Tue, Jun 16, 2015 at 10:49 PM, Thiago Macieira
>>
>> <thiago.macieira at intel.com> wrote:
>>> Qt 5.5 would be ideal - but we'd need to support the old Qt CI system for
>>> longer. So we're targetting that *Qt 5.6* will be the first LTS release.
>> Mind to elaborate? Why is the "old Qt CI" a requirement or a blocker
>> for a LTS release?
> Because that would imply keeping it running for a "long term" and the team
> maintaining it would really like to turn it off ASAP, in favour of the new
> solution that is more manageable and should have fewer flaky tests.
>
Does the CI infrastructure depend on the Qt version then? What is it 
about 5.5 that prevents the CI from being upgraded?

André