[Development] Branch for Qt 6

[Tor Arne Vestbø]

> On 15 Jan 2019, at 13:14, Allan Jensen <Allan.Jensen at qt.io> wrote:
> 
> On Tuesday, 15 January 2019 12:22:11 CET Tor Arne Vestbø wrote:
>>> On 15 Jan 2019, at 12:13, Allan Jensen <Allan.Jensen at qt.io> wrote:
>>> 
>>> On Tuesday, 15 January 2019 12:06:17 CET Tor Arne Vestbø wrote:
>>> 
>>>>> On 15 Jan 2019, at 11:54, Lars Knoll <lars.knoll at qt.io> wrote:
>>>>> 
>>>>> Ok, guess I misunderstood a bit. My idea was to keep ‘dev’ for 5.x
>>>>> development and ‘qt6’ for Qt 6 related development. At some point (when
>>>>> 5.15 is branched) we’d basically rename qt6 to dev (because at that
>>>>> point
>>>>> there’s no 5.x anymore).
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> Okey, so we _will_ have parallel Qt 5 and Qt 6 feature development, and
>>>> in
>>>> that case need two “dev” branches.
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
>>>> I argue that instead of naming them ‘dev’ and ‘qt6’ like proposed, we
>>>> use
>>>> explicit names, either:
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
>>>> - 6.0 and 5.15 (if there’s no 6.1 branched 6.0 is “dev. If there’s no
>>>> 5.16
>>>> branched, 5.15 is “dev”)
>>> 
>>> 
>>> I prefer the idea of keeping dev and make it head of 5.x that very clearly
>>> 
> indicates we want new feature development in 5.x not in qt6.
>> 
>> 
>> At some point we _do_ want new feature development in Qt 6 (I presume). The
>> names we choose now will stick, let’s be a bit proactive.
> 
> At that point qt6 will become dev, and later 6.0 and dev?

No, because Qt 5 will still have overlapping “dev” work according to Lars, so we can’t rename it to ‘dev’.

Tor Arne