[Releasing] Meeting minutes from Qt Release Team meeting 14.06.2022

[Jani Heikkinen]

Meeting minutes from Qt Release Team meeting Tue 14th June 2022

Qt 6.3:
- Qt 6.3.1 released
- Qt 6.3.2 release target mid August 2022

Qt 6.4:
- Qt 6.4 FF in effect & branching from 'dev' to '6.4' done
- Qt 6.4.0 Beta1 content in place & release packages created
   * Testing ongoing
   * Target is to release Qt 6.4.0 Beta1 later this week
- Target is to release Qt 6.4.0 beta2 ~ mid July
- API change review preparations ongoing
   * Target is to start Qt 6.4.0 API change review later this week

Qt 6.2 commercial LTS:
- Qt 6.2.5 will use Qt  Webengine from '6.3' and so on '6.2' branch from Qt Webengine will be closed; it will be unmaintained
- first dependency update round in commercial 6.2 branch finally succeed & snapshot creation ongoing
- Current release target for Qt 6.2.5 commercial LTS is 30th June

Next meeting Tue 2nd August 2022 16:00 CET

br,
Jani Heikkinen
Release Manager

irc log below:
[17:00:02] <jaheikki3> ablasche: akseli:carewolf:frkleint:lars_:mapaaso:The-Compiler:thiago: ping
[17:00:12] <frkleint> jaheikki3: pong
[17:00:21] <akseli> jaheikki3: pong
[17:01:59] <jaheikki3> Time to start Qt release team meeting
[17:02:07] <jaheikki3> On agenda today:
[17:02:11] <jaheikki3> Qt 6.3 status
[17:02:14] <jaheikki3> Qt 6.4 status
[17:02:24] <jaheikki3> Any additional item to the agenda?
[17:04:13] <jaheikki3> Ok, let's start from QT 6.3 status
[17:04:27] <jaheikki3> Qt 6.3.1 released today
[17:04:50] <jaheikki3> Target is to release Qt 6.3.2 ~ mid August
[17:05:23] <jaheikki3> That's all about Qt 6.3 status at this time. ANy comments or questions?
[17:06:44] <jaheikki3> then Qt 6.4 status:
[17:07:09] <jaheikki3> Branching from 'dev' to '6.4' done and feature freeze in effect
[17:07:16] <jaheikki3> Beta1 preparations ongoing
[17:07:44] <jaheikki3> Content already frozen & packages created
[17:08:04] <jaheikki3> Package testing ongoing
[17:08:19] <jaheikki3> If all ok we will release Qt 6.4.0 Beta1 later this week
[17:08:58] <jaheikki3> And the target is to release Qt 6.4.0 Beta2 ~ mid July
[17:09:13] <frkleint> wohohoho what about the feature freeze exceptions , stirng converters etc? Has API review started yet?
[17:09:31] <jaheikki3> API review preparations ongoing
[17:09:49] <jaheikki3> Hoping we can get it started later this week
[17:10:08] <frkleint> then it is a alpha 2 of sorts..
[17:10:35] <jaheikki3> We won't block beta1 or API review because of missing exceptions etc; those will be in later betas
[17:11:39] <jaheikki3> That's pretty much all about Qt 6.4 status at this time.
[17:11:46] <jaheikki3> Any more comments or questions?
[17:13:32] <akseli> Next meeting?
[17:13:43] <frkleint> 6.2.5?
[17:13:48] <jaheikki3> Yeah, lLet's start summer break now & have next meeting Tue 2nd August at this same time
[17:14:16] <jaheikki3> frkleint: Qt 6.2.5 commercial lts status:
[17:14:45] <jaheikki3> first dependency update round in tqtc/lts-6.2 finally succeed
[17:15:00] <jaheikki3> And creating first snapshot ongoing
[17:15:50] <jaheikki3> if snapshot seems to be OK we will start branching from tqtc/lts-6.2 to tqtc/lts-6.2.5 
[17:16:25] <carewolf> we were talking about closing the 6.2 branch for webengine since we now use 6.3 branch with lts-6.2, and it will be unmaintained
[17:16:40] <jaheikki3> Current release target for Qt 6.2.5 commercial LTS is 30th June 
[17:16:55] <jaheikki3> carewolf: Ok, sounds good
[17:17:21] <carewolf> I don't have the power to do that, but perhaps you can do it after 6.2.5 is released
[17:17:53] <jaheikki3> carewolf: me either but I can ask gerrit admins to do that
[17:17:57] <carewolf> ok
[17:19:11] <jaheikki3> it was all at this time. Let's end this meeting now and have new one tue 2nd August
[17:19:25] <frkleint> bye
[17:19:30] <carewolf> bye
[17:19:35] <jaheikki3> Thanks for your participation, bye!