[Development] Which changes are suitable for 5.6?

[Thiago Macieira]

On sexta-feira, 12 de agosto de 2016 14:00:10 PDT Marc Mutz wrote:
> Well, we told people "look, Qt 5.7 will drop support for your platform, and 
> require C++11, but don't worry: you have 5.6 LTS". I doubt those people
> would be happy if they didn't get their bugs fixed because they don't
> involve crashes or security exploits.
> 
> And if you look at what goes into 5.6, I don't buy that they're all
> critical  crash or security fixes. The masses vote with their feet. Don't
> shoot the messenger. I think 5.6 is better for it. _Now_ you can shoot :)

I agree with Marc, we should allow fixing bugs besides those that are critical 
or regressions. Even the regression category will change: once 5.6 is a year 
old, we'll start making judgement calls that we "had better leave it this 
way".

I would prefer we do fix bugs that we can, so long as we can reasonably say 
that they are reasonably safe of causing further issues. At least for the next 
six months. 

We should probably become progressively stricter as the branch becomes older.

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Thiago Macieira - thiago.macieira (AT) intel.com
  Software Architect - Intel Open Source Technology Center