[Development] Focusing bug fixes to 5.9 branch and patch releases during H1/17

[Ville Voutilainen]

On 11 April 2017 at 10:30, Marc Mutz <marc.mutz at kdab.com> wrote:
> On Tuesday 11 April 2017 07:49:28 Tuukka Turunen wrote:
>> There has been a lot of discussion about this in the mailing lists, I think
>> the two ones below sum it up quite well.
>
> They sum up *your* POV well. But up to a few weeks ago, more fixes went into
> 5.8 QtBase than changes into 5.9, even though TQC personell was asked to
> ignore 5.8.
>
> You can close 5.8 on all other modules, if you wish, but I'd ask to keep it
> open on QtBase, which has a lively development going on in 5.8 to this day.


Here's an anecdote: this https://codereview.qt-project.org/#/c/189229/
hasn't been merged
to 5.9, as far as I can see. I find it curious that bugfixes from two
weeks ago haven't trickled
into 5.9 from 5.8 yet. Such matters may well raise the bar for users
for working with 5.9 rather than
with 5.8.