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

[Konstantin Tokarev]

04.02.2017, 01:23, "Oswald Buddenhagen" <oswald.buddenhagen at qt.io>:
> 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.

Here sanity bot compains that patch for 5.6 for qt5 repo is not a cherry-pick:

https://codereview.qt-project.org/#/c/184640/1

>
> 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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Regards,
Konstantin