[Releasing] [Development] Beta 2 release

[techabc]

hope that beta2 have a msvc2012 binary package.

2012/9/20 Knoll Lars <Lars.Knoll at digia.com>:
> Hi,
>
> now that the dust around the acquisition is starting to settle a bit it's
> time to get back on track towards 5.0 and especially towards the next beta.
>
> As I've outlined in my last blog (which is unfortunately unavailable for the
> moment…), I'd like to include Qt Creator into the 2nd beta, so that we get
> close to what before has been known as an SDK release. For that Sergio has
> now created a qtsdk meta repository
> (ssh://codereview.qt-project.org:29418/qtsdk/qtsdk.git), that contains only
> the Qt Essentials, Qt Creator and the build dependencies for creator.
>
> We are aiming at using that qtsdk repository as our basis for the beta 2
> release. The goal is that Qt Creator also uses Qt 5 here, both to show that
> Qt 5 works, and to give us better testing possibilities for the frameworks.
>
> Other add-ons (e.g. Qt SVG, Qt 3D, …) should be added to this base SDK in a
> modular fashion, selectable at install time. However this might partially
> only happen after beta 2.
>
> To give us a bit more structure for the second beta, I'd like to nominate
> Sinan Tanilkan as the release manager for Qt 5. He will work on pulling the
> whole release together, keeping an overview over our bug status, making sure
> packages are being created and tested and ensuring comms are in place for
> the releases.
>
> Sinan will get a release team organised that helps with taking care of these
> different aspects. Coordination and further communication will happen on the
> releasing mailing list and the #qt-releases IRC channel, so please subscribe
> there if you have an interest in helping with the release process itself.
>
>
> The plan currently is to get packages that include Creator created within
> the next two weeks. After that we'll start package testing and release the
> Beta 2 as soon as possible afterwards.
>
> To be able to understand the quality of the beta better, we will need some
> help from everybody. Have a look at the Qt 5 bug statistics at
> https://bugreports.qt-project.org/secure/Dashboard.jspa?selectPageId=11712 .
> As you can see we currently have very few Blockers (P1) and only some P1's.
> But there are close to 400 bugs in there that aren't yet evaluated. It would
> be good if all Maintainers and Approvers could help and do their share to
> evaluate these bugs, so that we better know what remains to be done for the
> second beta. Once that's done, further work should focus around fixing the
> high priority bugs found.
>
> Cheers,
> Lars
>
>
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