[Development] Coin news

[Oswald Buddenhagen]

On Tue, Oct 25, 2016 at 07:22:41AM +0000, Jędrzej Nowacki wrote:
> I would like to also remind everyone, that intermodule API changes need to be merged in two steps. For example if you plan to change a method "void foo()" in qtbase to "void foo(const QString&)", that would be the right order of execution:
> 1. Commit a change to qtbase that _adds_  foo(const QString&)
>
1a. wait for qt5 integration. 2 would not integrate in the submodules
without 1 being in qt5 already.

> 2. Update all modules that use foo() to use foo(const QString&)
> 3. Wait until Qt5(dev branch) submodule update, that gathers changes from 1 and 2
>
only 2 at this point.

> 4. Remove old foo() from qtbase
>
4a. wait again until the final qt5 integration to see it in packages.

so six steps in total. and it takes exactly as long as it sounds.

> If you do not follow we would have to revert your changes.
> 
> Cheers,
>   Jêdrek
> 
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