[Releasing] Preparing Qt 5.0.2 release

[Turunen Tuukka]

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>Lähettäjä: releasing-bounces+tuukka.turunen=digia.com at qt-project.org [releasing->bounces+tuukka.turunen=digia.com at qt-project.org] käyttäjän Sean Harmer 
>[sean.harmer at kdab.com] puolesta
>Lähetetty: 14. helmikuuta 2013 11:06
>On Wednesday 13 February 2013 14:58:05 Thiago Macieira wrote:
>> On quarta-feira, 13 de fevereiro de 2013 11.08.36, Chris Gilbert wrote:
>> > Is there a decision yet on desktop GL builds for win32 in 5.0.2?
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>> There's a decision to try.
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>> In the 5.0.1 release process, the desktop GL builds were in a lower priority
>> than MSVC 2012 64-bit builds.
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>I would *love* to see desktop OpenGKL builds shipped with Qt 5.0.2. We are
>getting many posts about this on the devnet forums.
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>...
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>What is the blockage for this to happen? CPU time? Sysadmin time?

It is a sum of many things. Currently one of the main reasons for restricting the available configurations is testing.

Our release test automation on Qt 5 is not yet on par with Qt 4, thus we need to use a lot of expensive engineering time to validate each release configuration. Community testing helps, but for example for 5.0.1 it was unfortunately little that we got test reports from the community. Maybe the schedule was too hectic, maybe there were too many packages to test, or maybe everyone was happy with the packages. And naturally there was quite much focus to MinGW for 5.0.1. In addition it is naturally machine time, release team time, time to make all confs right etc. 

That said, I hope we are able to bring more configurations as binary packages with 5.0.2. 

What you can do meanwhile is try to keep these in good working shape so that making the installers is possible.

Yours,

                     Tuukka