[Development] Dev branch moving towards Qt 6

[Lars Knoll]

> On 16 Aug 2019, at 19:02, Giuseppe D'Angelo via Development <development at qt-project.org> wrote:
> 
> Il 16/08/19 12:26, Lars Knoll ha scritto:
>> As you know, Qt 5.14 will be branched pretty soon. After that I would expect that most new development work would start to be aimed towards Qt 6. As it looks right now, 5.15 will be a smaller release where we polish what we have in 5.14, and prepare some things for Qt 6.
> 
> What's the proposed model for any source incompatible change landing in Qt 6 that deserves a corresponding deprecation/compatibility mode/etc. in 5.15?

Here’s my proposal:

* First do the deprecation in 5.15, document that it’ll go away in the commit message and make sure to CC the maintainer for the module about it in gerrit.
* Then remove in dev once it’s landed and merged.
* Document those in both the 5.15 and Qt 6 changelogs.

Cheers,
Lars

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