[Development] QtCS: Long Term Release discussion

[André Somers]

Thiago Macieira schreef op 17-6-2015 om 09:15:
> On Wednesday 17 June 2015 09:01:19 André Somers wrote:
>> Does the CI infrastructure depend on the Qt version then? What is it 
>> about 5.5 that prevents the CI from being upgraded? 
> Two different CI implementations. The "new CI" is being developed in lockstep
> with Qt 5.6, including QtTest features. That means the "new CI" system cannot
> be backported to 5.5.
>
> In turn, to keep 5.5 long-term implies keeping the current infrastructure
> long-term. The same infrastructure that we're having tons of problems with,
> for flaky tests, inability to populate the test infra for Qt version, virtual
> machine configurations, etc.
Ok, so they really are tightly linked. Too bad, but that can't be 
helped. Thank you for your explanation (once again).
> Since 5.5 LTS is an impossibility, the only alternative to minimising the
> issues is to push the deprecations to 5.7 and do one more "official" release of
> the to-be-deprecated code in 5.6.
What would be the impact of doing that? Is doing that feasible at all? 
And are you then thinking of all planned deprecations (compilers, 
platforms, modules) or "just" a part of these?

André