[Releasing] [Development] Starting preparations for Qt 5.1

[Thiago Macieira]

On segunda-feira, 18 de março de 2013 14.36.41, Giuseppe D'Angelo wrote:
> On 18 March 2013 14:22, Ahumada Sergio <Sergio.Ahumada at digia.com> wrote:
> > About the tag, one could argue that making the tag (and alpha release)
> > before or after the merge might be the same.
> This is not only about making the 5.1.0-alpha1 tag. This is about not
> breaking forward binary compatibility in stable unless extraordinary
> circumstances. The branch guidelines imply that we should not merge
> unless we are (almost) in beta quality, see
> http://i.imgur.com/N1jVW.png (from
> http://qt-project.org/wiki/Branch-Guidelines , 2nd picture).

That was not my intention when I wrote that.

"dev" is already in alpha state. As soon as we do the feature-freeze, we can 
release the alpha and it should be fine. And Sergio is right: whether the tag 
appears shortly before or shortly after the dev/stable does not make a 
difference.

> We can declare dev frozen and not accept any new
> significant/destabilizing feature, but I disagree on the point that we
> should retarget small new features (pending, not yet +2d) to stable,

dev doesn't freeze. The freezing of Qt 5.1 *is* the merge of dev into stable.

> as well as getting the first round of API feedback (which could mean
> API/ABI breaks) in stable. (That of course could still happen after a
> beta released from -stable, but it would probably require much
> stronger arguments in order to go through.)

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