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

[Thiago Macieira]

Em quarta-feira, 15 de fevereiro de 2017, às 13:39:36 PST, Marc Mutz escreveu:
> On Friday 10 February 2017 11:59:56 Tuukka Turunen wrote:
> > Short summary: The Qt Company has decided to focus development effort to
> > 5.9
> 
> [...]
> 
> > In case of severe
> > security vulnerability we would make Qt 5.8.1 directly based on 5.8.0 with
> > just the security fix(es) added.
> 
> "The Qt Company has decided", not "discussions on #qt-releases indicated,
> here's the protocol, what do you think?", as we had with QtCS sessions.
> 
> I didn't want to, but I took that kind of opening as a frontal — personal —
> assault on me as a Qt Project contributor as well as Qt user.

I choose to read that as "The Qt Company has decided to focus its own 
development effort to 5.9" which means the 80% of the workforce by volume of 
patches to Qt are going to 5.9. In addition, I read Tuukka's email as a 
proposal to the rest of the community to follow suit and make it a Qt Project 
decision.

Until yesterday, there wasn't much a disagreement, so the release team took it 
as consensus decision from the community.

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Thiago Macieira - thiago.macieira (AT) intel.com
  Software Architect - Intel Open Source Technology Center