[Development] Qt 5.9 feature freeze

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Jani:

Qt shipped 5.8.0. Qt Lite shipped. Nice Job.

Maybe Qt should actually define "Feature Freeze" as the following:

Qt will now FREEZE new development and task dev staff 100% for 2
months to clean out all the bugs that are P2 important and up
and get caught up on bug fixing.

At the end of 2 months, we will release 5.8.1 and then begin new
development on 5.9 based on the bug fixed 5.8 branch.

https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/QTBUG-46298

Version 5.2.1?  Really?

Why even report bugs if they are not going to get fixed for YEARS.

There there is this glaring FONT omission:

https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/QTBUG-58002

How did this make it past any sort of QA?

A coherent Qt reply appreciated:

md

















On Tue, Jan 24, 2017 at 4:27 AM, Jani Heikkinen <jani.heikkinen at qt.io> wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> Only one week left. And we should start soft branching from 'dev' to '5.9' already tomorrow & finalize it 1.2.2017 to be able to have the FF as planned.
> Please update new features page as soon as possible; https://wiki.qt.io/New_Features_in_Qt_5.9 is quite empty still...
>
> br,
> Jani
>
> ________________________________________
> From: Jani Heikkinen
> Sent: Monday, January 16, 2017 1:26 PM
> To: development at qt-project.org
> Subject: Re: Qt 5.9 feature freeze
>
> Kindly reminder: there is a bit more than two weeks left before FF is in effect. So please finalize new features now.
> Is there new submolules coming in for 5.9? If there is those should be added in qt5.git now...
>
> br,
> Jani
>
> ________________________________________
> From: Jani Heikkinen
> Sent: Monday, January 2, 2017 12:26 PM
> To: development at qt-project.org
> Subject: Qt 5.9 feature freeze
>
> Hi all,
>
> Please remember that Qt 5.9 Feature Freeze is 1.2.2017, so less than month to finalize all new features for Qt 5.9
>
> Let's this time make sure we will keep the schedule (see https://wiki.qt.io/Qt_5.9_Release). To be able to do that we need to be tight with ff. So if you already now see that some feature won't be ready early enough please postpone it to 5.10 instead.
>
> Make sure all new features are visible in new feature page (https://wiki.qt.io/New_Features_in_Qt_5.9) and fulfilling ff criteria (https://wiki.qt.io/Qt_5_Feature_Freeze)
>
> br,
> Jani Heikkinen
> Release Manager
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