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

[Bogdan Vatra]

Hi,

  As long as we don't have enough time fix all the problems in a non LTS 
release, I think releasing at least one patch version is not that bad ...

Yours,
BogDan.

În ziua de luni, 29 ianuarie 2018, la 10:15:51 EET, Simon Hausmann a scris:
> 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
> 
> ________________________________
> 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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