[Releasing] Meeting minutes from Qt Release Team meeting 31.1.2023

[Jani Heikkinen]

Qt 6.5 status
- Qt 6.5 beta2 released, Qt 6.5 beta3 preparations to be started
- Target is to release Qt 6.3 beta3 ~mid February
- Qt 6.5 beta4 target is at the end of February
- Target is to branch from '6.5' to '6.5.0' at the beginning of March
- Qt 6.5.0 String Freeze will be in effect 23th February
- Qt 6.5 API Change review is still ongoing, see https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/QTBUG-109580
- Updating 3rd party components for Qt 6.5 is ongoing, see https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/QTBUG-110331

Qt 6.4 status
- Target is to release Qt 6.4.3 during February
   * Branching from '6.4' to '6.4.3' will happen ~mid February
   * Qt 6.4.3 will be the last release from the Qt 6.4 series

Next meeting Tue 7st February 2023 16:00 CET

br,
Jani Heikkinen
Release Manager

irc log below:
[17:00:37] <jaheikki3_> akseli: alblasch: carewolf: lars__:mapaaso_:The-Compiler:thiago: vladimir-minenko:vohi: ping
[17:00:44] <vohi> pong
[17:00:46] <thiago> vladimir-minenko: what compatilility issues?
[17:00:47] <thiago> jaheikki3_: pong?
[17:00:51] <thiago> -?
[17:01:02] <akseli> jaheikki3_: pong
[17:01:34] <jaheikki3_> Time to start qt release team meeting
[17:01:39] <jaheikki3_> On agenda today:
[17:01:45] <jaheikki3_> Qt 6.5 status
[17:01:48] <jaheikki3_> qt 6.4 status
[17:01:55] <The-Compiler> thiago: https://paste.the-compiler.org/view/a16123a9 - which sounded like qmake depending on glibc 2.34 which is too new for Ubuntu 20.04
[17:01:57] <jaheikki3_> Any additional item to the agenda?
[17:02:13] <vladimir-minenko> thiago: glibc in Ubuntu 20.04, for example
[17:03:17] <vladimir-minenko> jaheikki3_: Maybe, declaring the missing dates in https://wiki.qt.io/Qt_6.5_Release some time soon... ;-) 
[17:04:04] <jaheikki3_> The-Compiler: thiago: npm: like vladimir-minenko already wrote this issue is because existing dev snapshot is done by using RHEL 9 and it has too new glibc for Ubuntu 20.04. That will be "fixed" with the next snapshot which is build by using rhel8 again
[17:04:55] <jaheikki3_> Let's start from Qt 6.5 status
[17:05:11] <thiago> The-Compiler: yes, don't downgrade distros
[17:05:40] <jaheikki3_> Qt 6.5 beta2 released last friday
[17:05:49] <jaheikki3_> Qt 6.5 beta3 preparations to be started soon
[17:06:00] <jaheikki3_> Target is to release Qt 6.3 beta3 ~mid February
[17:06:18] <jaheikki3_> (and beta4 at the end of february)
[17:06:50] <jaheikki3_> Target is to branch from '6.5' to '6.5.0' beginning of march
[17:07:16] <vohi> given the current challenges with CI stability (most recently, lots of failing tests after upgrading the macOS ARM hosts), we need to keep an extra eye on cherry-picks making it into the 6.5 branch. Some of those address comments from header review and such.
[17:07:46] <jaheikki3_> That's true
[17:08:19] <jaheikki3_> Qt 6.5.0 string freeze will be in effect 23th february 
[17:08:39] <jaheikki3_> vladimir-minenko: I'll update these dates in the wiki soon...
[17:08:53] <jaheikki3_> Qt 6.5 API Change review still ongoing, see https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/QTBUG-109580
[17:09:16] <jaheikki3_> Updating 3rd party components for Qt 6.5 also ongoing, see status from https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/QTBUG-110331
[17:09:46] <jaheikki3_> That's all about qt6.5 status at this time. any comments or questions?
[17:10:05] <thiago> vohi: might be a good idea to paste the link to the "missing gems" again to the ML
[17:10:29] <vohi> yep, will do
[17:10:46] <vohi> jaheikki3_: do you plan to push another header review patch set?
[17:11:47] <jaheikki3_> vohi:do you mean updates to open ones? I can do that later this week
[17:12:38] <vohi> yep. thanks!
[17:13:02] <jaheikki3_> Ok, then quick Qt 6.4 status update
[17:13:33] <jaheikki3_> the plan is to release Qt 6.4.3 during February
[17:13:45] <jaheikki3_> so branching from '6.4' to '6.4.3' will happen ~mid February
[17:14:12] <jaheikki3_> And the target is that Qt 6.4.3 will be the last release from the Qt 6.4 series
[17:14:38] <jaheikki3_> that's all about 6.4 at this time. Any comments or questions?
[17:16:50] <thiago> sounds good
[17:17:02] <jaheikki3_> great, it was all at this time. Let's end this meeting now & have new one tue 7th February at this same time
[17:17:15] <jaheikki3_> thanks for your participation, bye!
[17:17:17] <vohi> 👍