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

[Simon Hausmann]

Hi,


I feel that we are generally guiding our users towards the LTS releases. The minor releases appear to address in particular users who need a particular feature before it hits the next LTS release.


In the light of that, I think it would be better to keep the LTS branches open longer and stop doing patch releases for minor releases that are not LTS.



Simon

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From: Development <development-bounces+simon.hausmann=qt.io at qt-project.org> on behalf of Jani Heikkinen <jani.heikkinen at qt.io>
Sent: Monday, January 29, 2018 7:59:06 AM
To: development at qt-project.org
Subject: [Development] Qt branches & proposal how to continue with those

Hi,

We have currently really many branches open:
- 5.6
- 5.9
- 5.10
- 5.10.1
- 5.11
- dev

In my opinion this is too much to handle effectively, especially because there is many branches in stable mode (see http://code.qt.io/cgit/meta/quips.git/tree/quip-0005.rst). Currently '5.6' is in 'strict' mode and  '5.9', 5.10' & '5.11' are in stable... I think we need to change that to be able to work efficiently & get releases out.

So I am proposing following changes starting from 1st Feb 2018:

- '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

br,

Jani
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