[Development] [Releasing] HEADS UP: Qt 5.7.0 branching ongoing

[Tuukka Turunen]

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> From: Development [mailto:development-
> bounces+tuukka.turunen=qt.io at qt-project.org] On Behalf Of Oswald
> Buddenhagen
> Sent: maanantaina 23. toukokuuta 2016 13.15
> To: development at qt-project.org
> Subject: Re: [Development] [Releasing] HEADS UP: Qt 5.7.0 branching
> ongoing
> 
> On Sat, May 21, 2016 at 01:41:55PM +0200, Ralf Nolden wrote:
> > I don't want to raise more workload, however, I would like to have
> >
> > https://codereview.qt-project.org/#/c/159318/
> >
> > merged into 5.6.1 and 5.7.0 if at all possible.
> >
> nope. we don't cherry-pick except in exceptional cases.
> 

Now that we have branched, it is important to target the changes one desires to have in Qt 5.7.0 into the 5.7.0 branch (together with the release team). Changes merged into 5.7 branch will be part of 5.7.1 (and Qt 5.8.0 eventually). Similarly, anything needed in Qt 5.6.1 release has to go into the 5.6.1 branch (together with the release team, and getting very late now to make any changes). Things merged now into 5.6 will be released in Qt 5.6.2, 5.7.1 and 5.8.0 as we are always merging bug fixes upwards.

And remember that we are close to the release, no nice-to-have fixes can go in - otherwise we have too high risk of something unexpected happening and miss the planned release time.

Yours,

	Tuukka


> > Without the patch, no BSD system is actually able to execute any Qt
> > binaries
> >
> that's too bad, but no bsd system is officially part of the supported platforms
> (unless you count apple as bsd ...), so any issues related to it cannot be
> release critical by definition.
> 
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