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

[Marc Mutz]

On Wednesday 15 February 2017 17:50:47 Thiago Macieira wrote:
> 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.

Yes, you can read the first sentence like that, but not the whole first 
paragraph, imo. That's why I quoted more than the first sentence.

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

Sure there was no disagreement. It was _w_e_e_k_e_n_d_. There was no 
agreement, either. I could also say that no-one came out in support today, so 
it's community consensus that 5.8.1 happens. Both interpretations are 
nonsense.

Thanks,
Marc

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