[Releasing] Meeting minutes from Qt Release Team meeting 14.2.2023

[Jani Heikkinen]

Qt 6.5 status

- Qt 6.5 beta3 preparations ongoing

   * Content not frozen yet but target is to freeze it as soon as possible

   * Target is to release Qt 6.5.0 beta3 at the beginning of next week

- Qt 6.5 API Change review mostly done, see https://codereview.qt-project.org/q/topic:api-change-review-6.5

- Updating 3rd party components for Qt 6.5 mostly done as well, see https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/QTBUG-110331

- Soft  string freeze will be announced Wed 15th February



Qt 6.4 status

- Qt 6.4.3 preparations started

   * First snapshot created, looking good

   * Branching from '6.4' to '6.4.3' will happen at the beginning of next week

   * Target is to release Qt 6.4.3 at the end of February as planned



Next meeting Tue 21st February 2023 16:00 CET



br,

Jani Heikkinen

Release Manager



irc log below:

[17:00:19] <jaheikki3> akseli: ablasche: carewolf: frkleint_: lars__:mapaaso: The-Compiler: thiago: vladimir-minenko: vohi: ping

[17:00:29] <akseli> jaheikki3: pong

[17:01:01] <thiago> jaheikki3: pong

[17:01:30] <frkleint_> jaheikki3: pong

[17:01:37] <jaheikki3> time to start qt release team meeting

[17:01:48] <jaheikki3> on agenda today: qt 6.5 status

[17:01:54] <jaheikki3> Qt 6.4 status

[17:02:02] <jaheikki3> Any additional item to the agenda?

[17:03:38] <jaheikki3> Let's start from qt 6.5 status

[17:03:49] <jaheikki3> Qt 6.5 beta3 preparations ongoing

[17:04:06] <jaheikki3> Content isn't frozen yet but target is to freeze it asap

[17:04:24] <jaheikki3> currently waiting fixes for QTBUG-111140

[17:04:45] <jaheikki3> it is blocking us to build b2qt packages for beta3

[17:05:20] <thiago> checking

[17:05:24] <jaheikki3> the target is to release Qt 6.5.0 beta3 at the beginning of next week

[17:05:41] <vohi> the header review for QtCore still has a lot of unresolved comments: https://codereview.qt-project.org/q/topic:api-change-review-6.5; otherwise we are mostly good I think, a few reviews unapproved but at least not a lot of pending comments

[17:06:23] <jaheikki3> Yeah, otherwise Qt 6.5 API Change is mostly done

[17:06:57] <jaheikki3> Updating 3rd party components for Qt 6.5 mostly done as well

[17:06:59] <jaheikki3> see https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/QTBUG-110331

[17:07:47] <jaheikki3> Soft string freeze will be in announced wed 15th February, official string freeze for Qt 6.5 wed 23rd february

[17:08:06] <thiago> not sure I can help qtgrpc, but I'll post questions

[17:08:34] <jaheikki3> thnx

[17:08:56] <jaheikki3> that's all about 6.5 status at this time. Any comments or questions?

[17:10:40] <jaheikki3> ok, then Qt 6.4 status

[17:10:53] <jaheikki3> Qt 6.4.3 preparations started

[17:11:22] <jaheikki3> first snapshot created & RTA tests done, looking good

[17:11:38] <jaheikki3> Branching from '6.4' to '6.4.3' will happen at the beginning of next week

[17:12:07] <jaheikki3> and target is to release Qt 6.4.3 at the end of February as planned

[17:12:39] <jaheikki3> that's all about 6.4 status at this time, any comments or questions?

[17:13:47] <akseli> sounds like  a plan

[17:14:20] <jaheikki3> Great. Let's end this meeting now and have new one tue 21st february at this same time.

[17:14:31] <jaheikki3> Thanks for your participation, bye!

[17:14:32] <vohi> thanks!

[17:14:35] <carewolf> bye

[17:15:13] <frkleint_> bye
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