[Development] Release plan moving forward

[Antonio Larrosa]

On 10/05/17 11:25, Lars Knoll wrote:
>

Hi,

> So we are now planning to make Qt 5.9 a LTS release. It's been 3
> minor releases since 5.6 and a lot of good things have happened in
> Qt, so this should be very good news to those of our users that don't
> always want to be on the bleeding edge but are looking for a stable
> version that's supported for a long time.
>

This is really good news. We're now preparing the SLE-15 release for 
2018 and I wanted to propose internally in SUSE to upgrade from the 
current Qt 5.6 to Qt 5.9. Since SLE aims for maximum stability, LTS 
releases are preferred, and making Qt 5.9 one would help to make the 
decision to upgrade a no-brainer.

If we can fit the schedule (and I'm confident we'll be able to do so if 
5.9 is not delayed), that would mean all SLE-15-based products would 
have Qt 5.9.x and thus, openSUSE Leap 15 (which is based on SLE) would 
also include Qt 5.9.x instead of Qt 5.6, which in turns would mean that 
we can upgrade Plasma in Leap to the next Plasma LTS release (since the 
latest Plasma release already requires at least Qt 5.7).

So in short, Qt 5.9 being a LTS release is excellent news for us at 
SUSE/openSUSE and our users.

(Just for completeness, note that we're already packaging/testing Qt 5.9 
betas for openSUSE Tumbleweed so we'll probably publish that in 
Tumbleweed soon after it's officially release. This mail is mainly about 
the SLE/openSUSE Leap stable distributions).

Greetings,

-- 
Antonio Larrosa