[Releasing] Meeting minutes from Qt Release Team meeting 31.3.2020

[Jani Heikkinen]

Meeting minutes from Qt Release Team meeting Tue 31st March 2020

Qt 5.14.2:
- Released today. No official announcement yet because verification from production is stuck at the moment
   * Official announcement will happen after needed verifications are done

Qt 5.12.8 status:
- We should have release content in place finally and qt5.git integration ongoing.
- Target is to create release packages tomorrow, run RTA once again and release Qt 5.12.8 later this week if everything is still OK

Qt 5.15.0 status:
- Target is to create beta3 at the end of this week
   * qt5.git integration is ongoing
- String Freeze will be in effect Wed 1st April, see https://lists.qt-project.org/pipermail/localization/2020-March/000381.html
- API review still ongoing: Same reviews as last week are still ongoing (qtbase API review + plugins.qmltypes updates for qt3D and qtquickcontrols2)
- Plan forward is:
   * Beta3 ~beginning of April
   * Beta4 ~mid April
   * RC at the end of April
   * Final ~mid May
   ** Release blocker list here: https://bugreports.qt.io/issues/?filter=21925

Next meeting Tue 7th April 2020 16:00 CET

Br,
Jani Heikkinen
Release Manager

irc log below:
[17:00:47] <jaheikki3> akseli: iieklund: thiago: lars: frkleint: vladimir-m: ankokko: mapaaso:carewolf: fregl: ablasche: ping
[17:02:17] <frkleint_qtws> jaheikki3: pong
[17:02:32] <akseli> jaheikki3: pong
[17:02:47] <jaheikki3> Time to start qt release team meeting
[17:03:02] <jaheikki3> On agenda today:
[17:03:06] <jaheikki3> Qt 5.14.2 status
[17:03:11] <jaheikki3> Qt 5.12.8 status
[17:03:15] <jaheikki3> Qt 5.15 status
[17:03:23] <jaheikki3> Any additional item to the agenda?
[17:06:27] <jaheikki3> Let's start from Qt 5.14.2 status
[17:06:42] <jaheikki3> Qt 5.14.2 is actually released
[17:07:08] <jaheikki3> But no official announcement yet because verification from production is blocked
[17:07:56] <jaheikki3> It seems downloading from download.qt.io isn't possible atm
[17:08:27] <jaheikki3> Official announcement & blog post will be published when we are able to do needed verifications
[17:08:52] <jaheikki3> Hoping all that can happen tomorrow morning
[17:09:12] <jaheikki3> That's all about Qt 5.14.2. Any comments or questions?
[17:11:25] <jaheikki3> Ok, then Qt 5.12.8 status:
[17:11:48] <jaheikki3> We should have release content in place finally
[17:12:01] <jaheikki3> And qt5.git integration is just started
[17:12:29] <jaheikki3> Target is to create release packages tomorrow
[17:12:38] <jaheikki3> Then run RTA for those packages
[17:12:59] <jaheikki3> And if all OK release Qt 5.12.8 later this week
[17:13:09] <jaheikki3> That's all about Qt 5.12.8
[17:13:16] <jaheikki3> Any comments or questions?
[17:15:13] <jaheikki3> And finally Qt 5.15 status
[17:15:43] <jaheikki3> Target is to release beta3 at the end of this week
[17:16:19] <jaheikki3> qt5.git integration ongoing and after it succeed we will start creating beta3 packages
[17:16:36] <jaheikki3> Qt 5.15 String Freeze will be in effect Wed 1st April, see https://lists.qt-project.org/pipermail/localization/2020-March/000381.html
[17:16:58] <jaheikki3> API review still ongoing: Same reviews as last week are still ongoing (qtbase API review + plugins.qmltypes updates for qt3D and qtquickcontrols2)
[17:17:22] <jaheikki3> - Plan forward is:
[17:17:32] <jaheikki3> Beta3 during this week
[17:17:41] <jaheikki3> Beta4 ~ Mid april
[17:17:52] <jaheikki3> RC at the end of April
[17:18:13] <jaheikki3> And Qt 5.15.0 final release ~ mid May
[17:18:33] <jaheikki3> Qt 5.15.0 release blocker list here: https://bugreports.qt.io/issues/?filter=21925
[17:18:54] <jaheikki3> That's all about Qt 5.15 status at this time. Any comments or questions
[17:19:22] <frkleint_qtws> jaheikki3: This Qt Designer webengineplugin thing should be  a blocker
[17:20:24] <frkleint_qtws>  QTBUG-82527
[17:20:46] <frkleint_qtws> done..well, hopefully
[17:21:41] <jaheikki3> Yeah, hopin so
[17:22:10] <frkleint_qtws> ok, then we should be all set..
[17:22:35] <jaheikki3> Ok, it was all at this time.
[17:23:04] <jaheikki3> Let's end this meetin now and have new one Tue 7th April at this same time
[17:23:19] <jaheikki3> Thanks for your participation, bye!