[Development] [HEADS UP] 5.12 locked down (Re: Merge and Integration status report - 2018.11.08)

[Liang Qi]

> On 8 Nov 2018, at 13:00, Oswald Buddenhagen <Oswald.Buddenhagen at qt.io> wrote:
> 
> On Thu, Nov 08, 2018 at 08:29:47AM +0000, Liang Qi wrote:
>> I don't know how to use [Grafana] to show the statistic of qtbase 5.12
>> integrations in coin. There are only 3 successful integrations
>> yesterday: [...]
>> 
> because this situation has been persisting for weeks and we've been
> essentially just burning energy and motivation with doomed integration
> attempts, we decided to lock down 5.12 until the situation is under
> control. a somewhat optimistic ETA is maybe a week, depending on the CI
> team's progress with deploying infrastructure software updates (it's a
> bit more involved than it sounds, so bear with them).
> 
> if you have critical changes which justify spending extra effort to get
> them in soon, talk to liang.

I thought qtbase 5.12 got locked since previous email. Looks like not, or some people(with privilege) are still eager to hit the stage button. I will not try more during tonight.

—Liang