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

[Kai Koehne]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Development [mailto:development-bounces+kai.koehne=qt.io at qt-
> project.org] On Behalf Of Marc Mutz
> Sent: Tuesday, April 11, 2017 2:25 PM
> To: development at qt-project.org
> Subject: Re: [Development] Focusing bug fixes to 5.9 branch and patch
> releases during H1/17
> 
> On Tuesday 11 April 2017 13:52:36 Tuukka Turunen wrote:
> > > On 11/04/2017, 14.43, "Konstantin Tokarev" <annulen at yandex.ru>
> wrote:
> > >   Maybe it's plausible to make 5.8.1 release just for QtBase?
> >
> > No. That is not possible. This has also been discussed before.
> 
> Yes, it is possible, you've done it before. And no, it has not been "discussed".
> I raised the question, and no-one answered.

When did we ever do a release of qtbase, without any other modules? 

> Why this semblance of a discussion, anyway? Why don't you just go ahead
> and pull the plug on 5.8?

Because _you_ started the discussion again. Tuukka just suggested to execute the decision we've made weeks ago now.

> It's not like the Qt Project (or what's left of it) has
> any say in this, you made that abundantly clear in the past.

Lars as Chief Maintainer sent out a mail about this, so this is the official stance of the Qt Project on this.

Seriously, can we please move on? This is in no way productive.

Kai