[Releasing] Meeting minutes from Qt Release Team meeting 09.04.2024

[Jani Heikkinen]

Qt 6.7 status:

  *   Qt 6.7.0 released Tue 2nd of April 2024
  *   Target is to start branching from 6.7 to '6.7.1' Mon 22nd of April and release Qt 6.7.1 Fri 3rd of May
Qt 6.8 status:

  *   Qt 6.8 feature freeze will be in effect 31st of May and platform and module freeze already 17th of May
     *   if there will be some new modules in Qt 6.8 it would good to start adding those in binary packages as soon as possible
     *   how about the change to build with VS2022?
        *   see https://lists.qt-project.org/pipermail/development/2024-February/044929.html
  *   Snaphot available in the production but not updated lately
     *   The target is to update the snapshot immediately after successful dependency update round in 'dev'
Next meeting Tue 23rd  April 2024 16:00 CET
br,
Jani Heikkinen
Release Manager
irc log below:
[17:00:16] <jaheikki3> ablasche: akseli: carewolf: frkleint: mapaaso: The-Compiler: thiago: vohi: ping
[17:00:25] <vohi> jaheikki3: pong
[17:00:35] <akseli> jaheikki3: pong
[17:01:01] <thiago> jaheikki3: pong
[17:01:25] <jaheikki3> time to start qt release team meeting
[17:01:34] <jaheikki3> on agenda today:
[17:01:39] <jaheikki3> Qt 6.7 status
[17:01:42] <jaheikki3> QT 6.8 status
[17:01:52] <jaheikki3> Any additional item to the agenda?
[17:03:30] <jaheikki3> let's start from Qt 6.7 status
[17:03:46] <jaheikki3> Qt 6.7.0 was released Tue 2nd of April
[17:04:33] <jaheikki3> at least one severe regression already reported: https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/QTBUG-123997 (binary break in qtmultimedia)
[17:05:00] <jaheikki3> so let's do the Qt 6.7.1 release a bit earlier than originally planned
[17:05:17] <vohi> agree :)
[17:05:21] <jaheikki3> new target is to start branching from 6.7 to '6.7.1' Mon 22nd of April and release Qt 6.7.1 Fri 3rd of May
[17:05:59] <jaheikki3> that's actually all about Qt 6.7 status at this time. Any comments or questions?
[17:06:30] <krop> I'm not sure if it's considered bic, but I received this report: https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1222514
[17:06:42] <vohi> wouldn't we usually branch on a Friday and release on a Monday?
[17:06:50] <krop> pyqt build failure with 6.7 likely due to https://code.qt.io/cgit/qt/qtbase.git/commit/?id=7a3fed3f
[17:08:36] <jaheikki3> vohi: true. But I am on vacation 17.4 - 21.4 and CI maintenance break is 6th May
[17:09:31] <jaheikki3> and with patch level releases it doesn't actually matter that much, we can just agree the dates & try to keep those
[17:09:54] <jaheikki3> krop: thanks, I'll check this with Ivan
[17:09:58] <vohi> ack
[17:10:42] <jaheikki3> Then Qt 6.8 status
[17:11:19] <jaheikki3> just a reminder: Qt 6.8 feature freeze will be in effect 31st of May and platform and module freeze already 17th of May
[17:12:01] <thiago> ok
[17:12:16] <jaheikki3> so if there will be some new modules in Qt 6.8 it would good to start adding those in binary packages as soon as possible
[17:12:36] <jaheikki3> a snapshot is already available in the online installer but it hasn't been updated lately
[17:12:59] <jaheikki3> we will update the snapshot after next successful dependency update round in 'dev'
[17:13:39] <jaheikki3> that's all about 6.8 status at this time. Any comments or questions?
[17:13:43] <thiago> how about the change to build with VS2022?
[17:14:42] <jaheikki3> thiago: good point, I think we didn't agree that in the ML last time. I actually have asked that lately from Oliver and Vladimir but didn't get any reply yet
[17:15:17] <jaheikki3> I'll discuss with them soon & let's agree that in ML as soon as possible
[17:15:40] <thiago> I think we need to, because 6.9 is LTS and you'll be reticent to change then
[17:15:49] <thiago> and if you don't, then you're stuck with 2019
[17:16:00] <jaheikki3> true
[17:18:01] <jaheikki3> ok, let's end this meeting now and have new one tue 23rd of April at this same time.
[17:18:14] <jaheikki3> thanks for your participation, bye!
[17:26:44] <vohi> thanks, bye!
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