[Releasing] Please add RIM to the review of each commit which changes Qt version

[Thiago Macieira]

On quinta-feira, 8 de novembro de 2012 17.45.18, Vladimir Minenko wrote:
> On 07/11/12 11:54, Thiago Macieira wrote:
> > On quarta-feira, 7 de novembro de 2012 10.25.28, Vladimir Minenko wrote:
> >> Hi,
> >> 
> >> Please add me to the review of each commit which changes Qt version. We
> >> need to know when Qt version will be changed on master. Changing Qt
> >> version leads to a change in the library names which needs to be
> >> configured the device image builds on our side. We need to know about
> >> this in advance.> 
> > The change in version number happens just after a release, which I'm sure
> > you find out very easily.
> 
> Not sure... For example, the version 4.8.3 has been changed on master
> around three weeks before an email about the release:
> 
> origin/4.8:
> commit 1f1ebc29551fe24295ad07307f1a61f98feb0bc1
> Date:   Tue Aug 7 03:58:41 2012 -0700
> 
>      Changed qt version to 4.8.3

That just means the process broke down. Bumping the release number is 
something the release manager should do just after making the release. And 
announce it.

> commit ceddcb631348f3b150f6e1882fa1a265c503c6df
> Date:   Fri Oct 5 05:58:21 2012 -0700
> 
>      Changed Qt release version to 4.8.4
> 
>      Change-Id: I45f7894f7e79617b6ccb8caa464bbbffaf9dd7b5
>      Reviewed-by: Sergio Ahumada <sergio.ahumada at digia.com>
>      Reviewed-by: Akseli Salovaara <akseli.salovaara at digia.com>
>      Reviewed-by: Lars Knoll <lars.knoll at digia.com>
> 
> 
> but 4.8.4 is not released/tagged yet, IMHO. This time, we caught this
> case just by a chance and had to revert that commit, since the
> whitelists for our images were not updated to 4.8.4 in time...

Right. The version in the repository points to the next release.

-- 
Thiago Macieira - thiago.macieira (AT) intel.com
  Software Architect - Intel Open Source Technology Center
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