[Development] Commercial LTS Qt 5.15.4 released

[Oswald Buddenhagen]

On Thu, May 13, 2021 at 08:35:37PM +0000, Eike Hein wrote:
>May 13, 2021 9:59 PM, "Oswald Buddenhagen" <oswald.buddenhagen at gmx.de> wrote:
>> what would interest me is why you chose to host this on your own
>> infrastructure instead of publicly demanding that tqtc plays by the
>> rules and hosts the fork on qt project infra, where it belongs, and the
>> possibility of which is explicitly codified in
>> https://wiki.qt.io/Branch_Guidelines (note the historical example
>> given).
>
>
>Actually, we did not.
>
>We suggested that it would be preferential to host this on Qt Project 
>infrastructure.
>
>We could not agree on it.
>
well, you should have demanded it in public. if digia, err, tqtc want to 
be blatantly hypocritical, they sure can have the bad publicity they 
deserve for it.

> In fact, our leading suggestion was to re-open the branches as per 
> usual and simply don't do the tags/releases.
>
that couldn't have flown, as without the project's leading contributor 
this can only be a vendor branch, pretty much by definition. also, given 
that you want/need to rebase the branch when tqtc finally releases the 
official source, this isn't really mainline material.