[Development] Proposal: New branch model

[Jedrzej Nowacki]

On Monday, January 28, 2019 2:38:44 PM CET Robert Loehning wrote:
> Am 28.01.2019 um 14:09 schrieb Jedrzej Nowacki:
> 
> > On Friday, January 25, 2019 3:23:36 PM CET Robert Loehning wrote:
> > 
> >>> Testing whether the bug that I’m fixing exists in dev or not is part of
> >>> the drill of fixing bug, isn’t it? Why would you spend time on fixing
> >>> something in 5.12 without checking whether the issue is still present
> >>> in
> >>> the latest codebase? Perhaps the issue has been fixed already, just
> >>> without the author considering it relevant for 5.12 (perhaps for good
> >>> reasons).
> >> 
> >> Why would somebody who maintains a project on Qt5 but made the decision
> >> to not migrate it to Qt6 care about fixing the latter?
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> Cheers,
> >> Robert
> > 
> > 
> > Project that is not being updated is not maintained. Not maintained
> > projects
 should not take part of the mainstream.
> > 
> > Cheers,
> > 
> >    Jędrek
> > 
> > 
> > 
> 
> 
> I mean an external project which is based on Qt, like some commercial 
> application. Say they decided - for good or bad reasons - that they will 
> not migrate to Qt 6, but they require a fix in Qt 5. They even provide 
> this fix, but why would they care about making it work in Qt 6?
> 
> Cheers,
> Robert

We have the same problem right now, just in the opposite direction. One want 
to fix version 5.9, why the person should help with merging and solving 
problems in 5.12? At least the problem would be visible in gerrit as an not 
staged change.

Cheers,
  Jędrek