[Development] [HEADS-UP] Updates to branching scheme

Oswald Buddenhagen oswald.buddenhagen at qt.io
Fri Nov 25 18:45:20 CET 2016


On Fri, Nov 25, 2016 at 05:09:30PM +0100, Giuseppe D'Angelo wrote:
> So, while on one hand this new branching scheme distributes the burden
> from the current merge masters onto the bigger community, in practice
> I'm very afraid (read: almost certain) that this will mean that very
> few people will be willing to do the extra work, hence leaving 5.6
> unpatched for ordinary, non-critical bug fixes.
>
i said that much myself previously.

> Are we sure there isn't a better way?
> 
maybe you should have raised that concern when the topic was discussed
previously on this list (about two or three times) or at the contributor
summit.

as an immediate measure, you may step up and _commit to_ being the merge
monkey (at least for the 5.6 -> 5.8 merges). if you do that quick enough
(like, monday), we may reconsider.

and for everyone else this uncertainty means that they should hold off
their bugfix integrations on 5.8, to avoid the cherry-picks they were
prepared to do.



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