[Development] Qt branches & proposal how to continue with those

[Jani Heikkinen]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Ville Voutilainen [mailto:ville.voutilainen at gmail.com]
> Sent: maanantai 29. tammikuuta 2018 9.50
> To: Jani Heikkinen <jani.heikkinen at qt.io>
> Cc: development at qt-project.org
> Subject: Re: [Development] Qt branches & proposal how to continue with those
> 
> On 29 January 2018 at 08:59, Jani Heikkinen <jani.heikkinen at qt.io> wrote:
> > - '5.6' will move in 'very strict' mode
> > - '5.9' will move in 'strict' mode. So no direct submissions anymore,
> > just cherry picks from stable
> > - '5.10' will be closed and Qt 5.10.1 will be the final release from
> > Qt 5.10 series (5.6 and 5.9 are LTS branches so we shouldn't keep Qt
> > 5.10 active too long)
> > - '5.11' will be to one and only stable branch
> 
> 
> The problem here is that there are bugfixes that need to go into 5.9 but cannot
> go into 5.11, for a variety of reasons. We need to keep 5.9 open for direct
> submissions.

Hmm, I think putting '5.9' in cherry pick mode with this schedule is agreed way of working, see http://code.qt.io/cgit/meta/quips.git/tree/quip-0005.rst 
And I don't see big issue there; amount of 5.9 specific fixes should be really minimal and if one really needed we can get that in without putting it first in stable: Cherry pick "mode" is more "way of working" & checks are included in sanity bot. And it can be overwritten if really needed.

br,
Jani