[Releasing] [Development] Qt 4.8.1 release during week 11/2012

[simo.falt at nokia.com]

On 3/5/12 6:21 PM, "ext Oswald Buddenhagen" <oswald.buddenhagen at nokia.com>
wrote:

>On Mon, Mar 05, 2012 at 03:24:04PM +0000, ext Salovaara Akseli wrote:
>> At the moment we are following content of
>> http://qt.gitorious.org/qt/qt/commits/4.8 branch on our internal
>> repository. We would like to provide Qt 4.8.1 branch on
>> Gitorious\Gerrit in order to enable you more visibility for the
>> progress & content. Could Gitorious\Gerrit administrators enable such
>> branch and later tag final 4.8.1 release?
>> 
>i understand that this is the commercial qt release with additional
>patches not sanctioned by the qt project (yet).

This would actually be the first patch release for 4.8, including the
additional patches from 4.8.0 commercial.
We are obviously missing releasing piece of qt-project machinery. I'll
post my few cents to releasing list, feel free to join the discussion.

>i can only repeat my
>offer from the last time: we create a 4.8.1-digia branch you can push
>your stuff into and put a v4.8.1-digia tag on.
>
>you still have all rights necessary to push refs/heads/4.7-digia and
>refs/tags/v4.7.5-digia if you finally decide to actually do so. i
>suggest you do that and then we see about 4.8. i'm on irc if you have
>questions about the execution.
>
>this is for gerrit. gitorious will be automatically mirrored as usual.
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