[Releasing] Qt 5.6.3 change files etc (was: Meeting minutes from Qt Release Team meeting 22.08.2017)

[Jani Heikkinen]

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>From: Simon Hausmann
>Sent: Wednesday, August 23, 2017 10:11 AM
>To: Jani Heikkinen; releasing at qt-project.org
>Subject: Re: Meeting minutes from Qt Release Team meeting 22.08.2017
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>Hi,
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>Regarding the changelogs for 5.6.3, I have a suggestion:
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>   (1) The changes for 5.6.3 target the 5.9 branch in Gerrit.
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>    (2) Upon approval, Ossi could perhaps force-push them into the 5.9 branch of the module.
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>    (3) Right afterwards cherry-pick them to 5.6 and also force push them there.
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Sounds ok for me. Ossi, is this ok for you (there is again some extra work planned to you ;) )? 
If that is the way we agree to proceed the we could start creating 5.6.3 change files in '5.9' already now

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>I see no value in running changes to dist/changelog-XXX through the CI.
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>Simon

Me either ;)

Then I have another issue related to branching from '5.6' to '5.6.3':
- I don't think we need to do soft branching here, right? there isn't that much changes ongoing in '5.6' anymore so we could just do the branching immediately after all ready for it. Or does someone disagree