[Development] BC/SC in patch releases

[Volker Hilsheimer]

> On 31 Aug 2023, at 19:15, Thiago Macieira <thiago.macieira at intel.com> wrote:
> 
> On Thursday, 31 August 2023 09:54:37 PDT Lisandro Damián Nicanor Pérez Meyer 
> wrote:
>>> It seems very unlikely that one would end up building for Qt x.y.z and
>>> then have their users on Qt x.y.(w<z).
>> 
>> With my Debian hat on: I really don't recall this happening ever. Having an
>> app compiled against an older Qt version is just normal, but the other way
>> around... definitely not.
> 
> Yeah, I think the major/only users of that were ourselves: going up and and 
> down a release series to test issues.

Topic added for Qt CS at

https://wiki.qt.io/Qt_Contributor_Summit_2023_-_Program

Based on this discussion, it seems that nobody would mind if we were to decide that we no longer promise forward BC in a patch cycle.

Volker