[Releasing] Meeting minutes from Qt Release Team meeting 15.03.2022

[Jani Heikkinen]

Meeting minutes from Qt Release Team meeting Tue 15th March 2022

Qt 6.3 status:
- Beta3 release preparations still ongoing
   * Content frozen, packages created and testing ongoing
   * Target is to release Qt 6.3.0 Beta3 Wed 16th March
- Branching from '6.3' to '6.3.0' will happen later this week
- Target is to release Qt 6.3.0 RC Tue 22th March & Qt 6.3.0 5th April

Qt 6.2 status:
- Qt 6.2.4 release content frozen and  packages created
- testing ongoing
- Target is to release Qt 6.2.4 later this week

Qt 6.4 status:
- First internal snapshot created from 'dev'
   * Some critical issues found and already fixed
- Target is to create new snapshot after successfully dependency update round in 'dev'
   * Plan is to  make this one publicly available
- Reminder: 
   * Qt 6.4 Platform and module freeze is  20.052022
   * Qt 6.4 Feature Freeze is 03.06.2022

Next meeting Tue 22nd March 2022 16:00 CET

br,
Jani Heikkinen
Release manager

irc log below:
[17:00:44] <jaheikki3> ablasche: carewolf: lars: mapaaso: thiago:vladimir-minenko: akseli: ping
[17:01:09] <thiago> jaheikki3: pong
[17:01:45] <jaheikki3> Time to start qt release team meeting
[17:01:49] <jaheikki3> on agenda today:
[17:01:56] <jaheikki3> Qt 6.3 status
[17:02:03] <jaheikki3> Qt 6.2 status
[17:02:10] <jaheikki3> Any additional item to the agenda?
[17:03:40] <thiago> 6.4
[17:03:49] <thiago> but I don't think there's any update there
[17:04:50] <jaheikki3> We can quickly update 6.4 status as well at the end
[17:05:00] <jaheikki3> But let's start from Qt 6.3 status
[17:05:14] <jaheikki3> Beta3 release preparations still ongoing
[17:05:43] <jaheikki3> Release content is frozen, release packages are created and package testing ongoing
[17:06:03] <jaheikki3> There is some findings but nothing beta3 blocking sofar
[17:06:26] <jaheikki3> So target is to release Qt 6.3.0 tomorrow
[17:07:05] <jaheikki3> Branching from '6.3' to '6.3.0' delayed a bit as well but the target is to do the branching later this week 
[17:08:00] <jaheikki3> Target is to freeze Qt 6.3.0 RC content latest at the end of this week & get RC out tue 22th March
[17:08:08] <jaheikki3> And final tue 5th April
[17:08:23] <jaheikki3> That's all about Qt 6.3.0 status. Any commets or questions?
[17:09:11] <thiago> not from me
[17:09:20] <jaheikki3> Ok, then Qt 6.2 status
[17:09:35] <jaheikki3> Qt 6.2.4 release content frozen and  release packages created
[17:09:43] <jaheikki3> testing is ongoing
[17:10:08] <jaheikki3> If nothing serious found we will release Qt 6.2.4 later this week
[17:10:51] <jaheikki3> And Qt 6.2.4 will be the last public release from Qt 6.2 series as earlier communicated
[17:11:02] <thiago> ok
[17:11:11] <jaheikki3> That's all about Qt 6.2.4 at this time. Any comments or questions?
[17:13:05] <carewolf> no
[17:13:17] <jaheikki3> Ok, then quick Qt 6.4 status update
[17:13:35] <jaheikki3> First internal snapshot created from 'dev'
[17:13:43] <jaheikki3> Some critical issues found and already fixed
[17:14:03] <jaheikki3> Target is to create new snapshot after successfully dependency update round in 'dev' and also make it publicly available
[17:14:40] <thiago> when?
[17:14:46] <jaheikki3> And just a reminder: Platform and module freeze will be 20.052022 & Qt 6.4 FF 03.06.2022
[17:15:37] <jaheikki3> thiago: hoping snapshot can be created and published latest during next week
[17:15:53] <jaheikki3> But preferrably already during this one
[17:16:22] <jaheikki3> But this is all about 6.4 status at this time. Any more comments or questions?
[17:17:34] -*- thiago looks up feature freeze
[17:17:56] <thiago> - Feature freeze Fri 3rd June 2022
[17:18:00] <thiago> ok, I have time
[17:18:02] <thiago> thanks
[17:18:32] <jaheikki3> Ok, it was all at this time. Let's end this meeting now & have new one tue 22nd March at this same time
[17:18:46] <jaheikki3> Thanks for your participation, bye!
[17:20:28] <thiago> thanks