[Releasing] [Development] To patch release or not (was: Bug fixes to Stable or Dev branch?)

[Turunen Tuukka]

Hi,

I have nothing against patch releases, on the contrary ;)

If there is good content to go out as Qt 5.2.2 / Creator 3.0.2 for example
in beginning of March - and we believe it is possible to create such a
release without risking Qt 5.3 schedule - I¹m all for it.

I would assume this is a topic release team will discuss on their Monday
meetings.

‹
Tuukka

On 06/02/14 11:39, "Gladhorn Frederik" <Frederik.Gladhorn at digia.com> wrote:

>Hi Tuukka and all,
>
>just like Albert said, it's not so much about the time until the next
>release. It's more about delivering even more stable Qt releases with
>less changes that are more reliable.
>While I generally think that we are doing quite a good job in improving
>the quality of Qt with both minor and patch releases, some people really
>appreciate releases with those few bug fixes like Albert mentioned.
>Looking at the stable branch it seems like there are 116 commits for
>qtbase alone in the stable branch.
>
>I have heard from quite a few people that they would really appreciate
>those patch releases and ideally we get into the habit of making releases
>so smooth that it doesn't cost any extra effort. (we're not quite there
>but getting better and better at making releases)
>
>Greetings,
>Frederik
>
>
>(forgive me for top posting, I'm on a broken web mail client here...)
>________________________________________
>From: Turunen Tuukka
>Sent: Wednesday, February 05, 2014 6:45 PM
>To: Gladhorn Frederik; development at qt-project.org
>Subject: VS: [Development] Bug fixes to Stable or Dev branch?
>
>Hi,
>
>Regarding Qt 5.2.2 - let's see how well 5.2.1 is received. We have now
>1,5 months shorter cycle than the usual 6 months for Qt 5.3. I agree that
>it was a long wait between 5.1.1 and 5.2.0.
>
>Yours,
>
>Tuukka
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>käyttäjän Gladhorn Frederik [Frederik.Gladhorn at digia.com]
>puolesta
>Lähetetty: 5. helmikuuta 2014 17:46
>Vastaanottaja: development at qt-project.org
>Aihe: Re: [Development] Bug fixes to Stable or Dev branch?
>
>We have the branch model to make it easy to choose the right branch,
>usually without worrying about the releases too much.
>
>"Normal" bug fixes go always to stable.
>Stable is guaranteed to be merged into dev before the next release, so
>you'll never have to worry, no patch gets lost.
>
>Show stoppers just before the release might have to go into the release
>branch, this should really be the exception.
>
>Sometimes a bug is less critical and/or involves huge changes, these may
>have to go into the dev branch pending the approvers and your judgement.
>
>By the way, I heard quite a few requests for more patch releases, maybe
>we should aim for 5.2.2 with hopefully only stability improvements.
>
>Greetings,
>Frederik
>
>________________________________________
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>[development-bounces+frederik.gladhorn=digia.com at qt-project.org] on
>behalf of Giuseppe D'Angelo [dangelog at gmail.com]
>Sent: Wednesday, February 05, 2014 4:19 PM
>To: jlayt at kde.org
>Cc: development at qt-project.org
>Subject: Re: [Development] Bug fixes to Stable or Dev branch?
>
>On 5 February 2014 15:55, John Layt <jlayt at kde.org> wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> I've seeing contradictory advice on Gerrit as to which branch to push
>>bug-
>> fixes to, some say there will be no 5.2.2 so to use dev instead, others
>>say to
>> keep using stable in case there is.  What is the current "official"
>>policy?
>>
>> Oh, and please remember when making such decisions to clearly
>>communicate them
>> to this list, not everyone is in the office or on IRC.
>
>The policy didn't change, see "Where to push a change?"
>
>http://qt-project.org/wiki/Branch-Guidelines
>
>It doesn't matter that 5.2.2 is not planned. If the change qualifies
>for stable, push it to stable.
>
>--
>Giuseppe D'Angelo
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