[Releasing] [Development] Preparing Qt 5.0.2 release

Frederik Gladhorn frederik.gladhorn at digia.com
Mon Feb 25 14:30:15 CET 2013


Fredag 22. februar 2013 10.11.22 skrev Thiago Macieira:
> On sexta-feira, 22 de fevereiro de 2013 17.17.23, Oswald Buddenhagen wrote:
> > [dropping dev@]
> > 
> > On Fri, Feb 22, 2013 at 08:02:03AM -0800, Thiago Macieira wrote:
> > > Here's a good question: should we tag/branch the stable branch just
> > > before
> > > the dev merge? Otherwise finding those commits later (think one year
> > > later) might be difficult.
> > 
> > possible. alternatively, we may actually create an old/5.0 branch at that
> > point - we are not planning to work on it, but history teaches us that
> > there is a good chance that it will be needed. so creating version
> > branches at regular EOL would produce a kind of consistent structure.
> 
> Looks like good practice to me.

I was worried about this as well, so another +1 for creating a 5.0 branch at 
that point in time.

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Best regards,
Frederik Gladhorn
Senior Software Engineer - Digia, Qt
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