[Releasing] pushing/staging around branching time (Re: Some CMake patches for 5.0.2)

[Oswald Buddenhagen]

On Fri, Feb 22, 2013 at 03:11:14PM +0100, Stephen Kelly wrote:
> I misunderstood the branch situation for Qt 5.0.2, and I pushed commits to 
> stable which need to be in 5.0.2 (specifically 
> 7661e39c022f76da34fcd5d38ecb93c86e01f1b7 and 
> 7477d50fce9a0008ff4e050285e146ebc0c1e163 which fix a regression introduced in 
> 316d8ececa3314ec16baf46ec4f1c5440cd951ef).
> 
> Without those patches the cmake files are unusable, so they need to be in 
> 5.0.2. 
> 
> The easiest way I can see to fix that situation is to fast-forward the release 
> branch to 7661e39c022f76da34fcd5d38ecb93c86e01f1b7. As it is a fast-forward, 
> all commits have already been through CI.
> 
i fast-forwarded the branch with akseli's permission after reviewing
what i'd push.
however, this was most definitely an exception, because it looked
harmless and the release testing didn't really start yet.

i also noticed at least one other change which had a fixed-in 5.0.2 in
jira, which most definitely would not be in the release without
magic/ugliness.

what this means for *you*? *don't* stage anything which is aiming
for timely release around the announced branching/merging time. when
your change didn't make it before the deadline, abandon it immediately,
and re-push for the release branch after successful branching was
announced.