[Development] Proposal: New branch model

[Mitch Curtis]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Development <development-bounces at qt-project.org> On Behalf Of
> Jedrzej Nowacki
> Sent: Monday, 28 January 2019 3:54 PM
> To: Robert Loehning <Robert.Loehning at qt.io>
> Cc: development at qt-project.org
> Subject: Re: [Development] Proposal: New branch model
> 
> 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.

Don't changes have to go to 5.12 first and then be backported to 5.9 with the current model?
 
> Cheers,
>   Jędrek
> 
> 
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