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

[Mathias Hasselmann]

Am 18.02.2017 um 21:40 schrieb Thiago Macieira:
> On sábado, 18 de fevereiro de 2017 11:49:28 PST Konstantin Tokarev wrote:
>> 18.02.2017, 22:13, "Thiago Macieira" <thiago.macieira at intel.com>:
>>> On sábado, 18 de fevereiro de 2017 06:36:07 PST Mat Sutcliffe wrote:
>>>>  Keeping 5.9.0 on schedule even while 5.8.0 blows past its planned
>>>> release
>>>>  date would seem to be appropriate when you have the capability to
>>>>  concurrently maintain two minor (not patchlevel) release branches.
>>>
>>> That's exactly what Tuukka proposed we do. We keep 5.9.0 on schedule and,
>>> because of that, 5.8.1 becomes impossible and unnecessary.
>>
>> So people who cannot upgrade to 5.8.0 because of bugs would have to wait for
>> 5.9.0 and hope that there will be no other regressions. Great.
>
> Or wait for 5.9.1.
>
So let me play the devil's advocate: 5.9.1 also will be canceled for 
similar arbitrary reasons like vacation plans.

Guys, by not delivering bugfix releases for arbitrary reasons we are 
risking to kill Qt's credibility as reliable toolkit. Our users trust in 
getting bugfix releases.

Ciao,
Mathias
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