[Development] Notes on "Managing Qt's branches" session @ QCS 2016

[Konstantin Tokarev]

10.09.2016, 15:32, "Marc Mutz" <marc.mutz at kdab.com>:
> Hi Lars,
>
> On Friday 09 September 2016 15:21:04 Lars Knoll wrote:
>>  A cherry-picking approach for the LTS branch can make sense, as it
>>  distributes the burden of bringing the bug fix to both the stable and LTS
>>  branch over all developers and doesn’t put it on the one person having to
>>  do the merges.
>
> The obvious question is, then, why is only "the one person" doing merges?
> Allow more people to upload merges, and you will get the spreading you desire.
>
> (and the less obvious one: why are changes to the config system done in 5.8,
> and not LTS? They don't touch code, after all).
>
>>  It will also help limiting changes in the LTS branch to the
>>  things that should really go there.
>
> Which is in itself a controversial topic (see other thread). To stay on-topic:
> I don't see how cherry-picking would help here, as both cherry-picks and
> original commits to LTS will be reviewed, possibly by the same people.

Resolution of merge conflicts also requires review, and, in addition, may lack
necessary context in place.

>
> In fact, one could also be led to think that the perceived security of "it has
> passed CI in dev, so it's safe for LTS" will cause more and less appropriate
> commits to be backported to LTS.
>
> Or are you going to impose release branch rules (restricted staging) on 5.6,
> eventually?
>
> Thanks,
> Marc
>
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Konstantin