[Development] Commercial-only 6.2 LTS phase starts: Closing the 6.2 branch(es) on 20th April

[Konstantin Ritt]

It is probably the most destructive and annoying thing you did!

I'll try to rephrase what you said in that announcement: "Dear community,
please stick to unstable, semi-functional versions of Qt, test them and
report bugs you've found (for free), so we could better support our
valuable customers (not you). Your contributions are welcomed (but you have
to pay some money to us to get any gain from your fixes, unless you're ok
with sticking to some newer semi-functional version of Qt). Thanks for
everything you did for Qt project (we don't appreciate that). That's how
Open Governance works, b???h!"

Am I exaggerating? Let's briefly look at
https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/QTBUG-102962?jql=project%20%3D%20QTBUG%20AND%20component%20%3D%20Multimedia%20and%20fixVersion%20%3D%206.2.5

Okay, you won: I'll buy your commercial license, just to share your
commercial-only repositories to everyone!

Regards,
Konstantin


ср, 20 апр. 2022 г. в 10:01, Tarja Sundqvist <tarja.sundqvist at qt.io>:

> Hi,
>
>
>
> With Qt 6.3.0 released and the first patch release (Qt 6.3.1) coming soon,
> it is time to enter the commercial-only LTS phase for Qt 6.2 LTS. All the
> existing 6.2 branches remain publicly visible, but they are closed for new
> commits and cherry-picks. The exception is the Qt WebEngine, which has a
> 3rd party LGPL dependency.
>
>
>
> Closing happens today, 20th April 2022. After this, the cherry-picks go to
> another repository that will be available only for the commercial license
> holders. We will arrange repository access to the commercial license
> holders, so in addition to the official releases, it is possible to use the
> repositories.
>
>
>
> The first commercial-only Qt 6.2.5 LTS patch release is planned to be
> released in May.
>
>
>
> The external module maintainers that have access to the Qt 5.15
> commercial-only repositories, will also have access to the Qt 6.2
> commercial-only repositories. If you notice that you don’t have access even
> if you should have, please contact me (tarja.sundqvist at qt.io) as I am the
> release manager for the commercial-only LTS releases.
>
>
>
> Best regards,
>
> Tarja Sundqvist
>
> Release manager
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