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

[Giuseppe D'Angelo]

Il 11/04/2017 12:46, Aleix Pol ha scritto:
> What's the point of keeping 5.8 open if there's not going to be
> another 5.8 release?

Because of customer projects, Linux distributions, etc. that are
currently on 5.8, and that want to benefit from the latest bug fixes and
performance improvements without waiting 4-5 months for 5.9.1.

Yes, they *will* skip any .0 release, and convincing customers to
upgrade to a new minor release is definitely more complicated than
convincing to upgrade to a new patch release (... which in this case
translates to tracking the 5.8 branch).

Cheers,
-- 
Giuseppe D'Angelo | giuseppe.dangelo at kdab.com | Senior Software Engineer
KDAB (UK) Ltd., a KDAB Group company | Tel: UK +44-1625-809908
KDAB - Qt, C++ and OpenGL Experts

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