[Releasing] qtwebkit 5.5.2 or 5.6.0

[Frederik Gladhorn]

On Saturday, November 28, 2015 03:40:17 PM Thiago Macieira wrote:
> Hello
> 
> There are 17 non-merge changes in the qtwebkit repository after the 5.5.1
> release (one of them changing the version number to 5.6.0).
> 
> Is anyone working on producing the tarball for the release? Note that it is
> required because 5.5.1 will not correctly compile with qtbase 5.6.0.
> 
> There are also some changes in qtscript and qtquick1, but they don't look
> crucial (one in qtquick1 is a build fix, but it's a simple missing
> #include).

I'm not 100 % sure what you mean, but from what I guess, this is about merging 
branches.
The policy is unchanged and all patches in any 5.x.y branch get merged to 
5.x.y+1 or 5.x+1.0 and forward to dev eventually (don't nail me down on the 
math here, to the next branch that makes sense).
This should happen for modules that are deprecated as long as they receive 
patches.

As for source tarballs I think we have so far not considered producing 
tarballs as Jani writes, why do you see the necessity?

Cheers,
Frederik