[Development] QtCS: Long Term Release discussion

[André Pönitz]

On Wed, Jun 17, 2015 at 07:31:19AM -0700, Thiago Macieira wrote:
> On Wednesday 17 June 2015 10:34:39 Giuseppe D'Angelo wrote:
> > > 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.
> > 
> > I would agree to this plan; we can deprecate platforms we don't want
> > to support long term in 5.5 already, though, which is what has
> > happened with QNX. Maybe old OSX as well? GCC 4.4?
> 
> Note that doing this means we'll be out-of-sync with the next Ubuntu LTS, 
> which was one of the goals. We'll be late by a couple of months, which means 
> the next opportunity won't come for another 18 months.

Would be possible to freeze 5.6 right now, and release that quickly
after 5.5 as LTS, already running on the new CI, and do whatever
else was originally planned for 5.6 in 5.7?

Andre'