[Development] HEADS-UP: 5.6 / LTS is now open for business

[André Hartmann]

Hi,

and what about changes already uploaded to Gerrit, containing a 
cherry-pick line?

They cannot be uploaded again without changing at least the commit 
message. What should happen there?

Best regards,
André

Am 06.02.2017 um 08:34 schrieb Alex Blasche:
> Hi,
>
> It would help to actually state the rules the bot is following.
>
> This case below is an assumption since you don't really name the rules and I am interpreting in between your lines:
>
> How do I stage a change that is not a cherry-pick? Yes, they do exist and I can name a few cases where this makes sense especially since we are talking about 3 minor releases of Qt in between.
>
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> Alex
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> moin,
>
> we finally managed to add a cherry-pick validator to the sanity bot, so
> i dared to open the 5.6 branch for staging again.
>
> caveat: patchsets created before the final forward merge got a positive
> review while they aren't cherry-picks. i don't suppose anyone would
> stage such an old patchset as-is anyway, but please check.
>
> note that there is an exception to the policy as well: the qt5 super
> repo continues to operate in forward-merge mode also for the LTS branch.
> you probably don't care unless you're in the release or CI team.
>
> there is also another consideration: these off 5.6 integration runs of
> course cost CI resources. maybe it would be smart as a matter of policy
> to have a dedicated team do the staging in batches.
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