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

[Girish Ramakrishnan]

Hi Tuuka,
Following this up - did your release team members get access to branch and tag?

Thanks,
Girish

2012/3/16 Turunen Tuukka <Tuukka.Turunen at digia.com>:
> Excellent, thank you very much for the trust.
>
>
> We naturally want to have all release content from the Qt Project. If some
> patch is needed, it is done via gerrit. This is the case with 4.8.1 already,
> and will be also in the future.
>
>
> For practicalities, is it possible to have some members of the release team
> with right to tag etc?
>
>
> Yours,
>
> --
>
> --
>
> Tuukka
>
>
> lars.knoll at nokia.com kirjoitti 16.3.2012 13:39:
>
> Hi Tukka,
>
> let's make this simple. You and Digia stepped up to make 4.8 patch level
> releases. So far nobody else has, so the 'release manager' job simply
> falls into your hands.
>
> Adding some patches to the release and deciding what exactly goes out
> should be at the discretion of the one doing the releases, ideally in
> coordination with a team that has the same interest.
>
> Having said that, all patches in a qt-project release should also be
> inside the git repo on qt-project.org. I am ok for another exception for
> 4.8.1 (if required), but would really like to see that we have it all
> upstream afterwards.
>
> The release can however be a branch from 4.8, and contain additional
> patches. But these should live inside a release branch on gerrit.
>
> Cheers,
> Lars
>
>
> On 3/15/12 8:50 AM, "ext Turunen Tuukka" <Tuukka.Turunen at digia.com> wrote:
>
>>
>>
>>On 5.3.2012 18.21, "Oswald Buddenhagen" <Tuukka.Turunen at digia.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). 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.
>>
>>No, this is intended to be the open-source 4.8.1 release by the Qt
>>Project.
>>
>>For us it is fine if someone else does the releases, but since about
>>no-one seems to care making patch release out of 4.8 we have stepped up
>>and offered to create the releases.
>>
>>For Qt Commercial viewpoint it is easier for us to base our releases on
>>patch releases from Qt Project. It gets hard eventually if we would
>>continue releasing commercial only patch releases on top of 4.8.0. And I
>>am sure there are also open-source users who wish to get patch releases
>>for 4.8.
>>
>>Yes, there is already some amount of patches out after the proposed 4.8.1.
>>>From our viewpoint they should go into 4.8.2.
>>
>>If needed, of course we can rebase 4.8.1 and redo the testing, but it is
>>already a release with a large number of fixes.
>>
>>It is the decision of the Qt Project what we want to do about releases. I
>>would like to have 4.8.1 released, and Digia is ready to help also with
>>the subsequent releases. If others are also interested in making the
>>releases, great.
>>
>>>
>>>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.
>>
>>
>>Regarding 4.7.5 we have created the open-source installers ages ago, but
>>since there is no place for Qt Project to distribute the releases at the
>>moment, they are not out. We wanted that the installers and code for 4.7.5
>>are released at the same time, but since there did not seem to be interest
>>in the community to do that, we have not been pushing.
>>
>>Source code of 4.7.5 open-source is available at
>>http://qt.gitorious.org/qt/qt/commits/4.8 - and we do have the
>
>>open-source installers ready if those are needed. There just needs to be a
>>location where these can be placed.
>>
>>I can understand the lack of interest for 4.7.5, but 4.8.1 is a different
>>case. It gets really ugly if Qt Project does not make any patch releases
>>out of 4.8.
>>
>>Yours,
>>
>> Tuukka
>>
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