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

[Aleix Pol]

On Tue, Apr 11, 2017 at 9:30 AM, 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.

What's the point of keeping 5.8 open if there's not going to be
another 5.8 release?

Aleix