[Development] Finishing the transition to the cherry-pick model

[Alex Blasche]

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> From: Development <development-bounces at qt-project.org> On Behalf Of
> Volker Hilsheimer


> 1) we will shut down the forward-merging bot next week
.... 
> 3) we will turn on the cherry-picking bot for all repositories
> 
> Expect this to happen in early May, but probaly not at the same time for all
> repos. We will update the commit template to include a commented out “Pick-
> to” footer.

Why would we accept a gap period during which the forward merging is already off and the cherry-picking bot is not yet on?

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Alex