On Thursday 15 December 2011 22:31:32 Robin Burchell wrote: > Hi, > > On Thu, Dec 15, 2011 at 10:26 PM, Robin Burchell <robin...@viroteck.net> wrote: > >> Wasn't the policy to first push the code in Qt5, then backport in Qt > >> 4.8?> > > I'd agree that would make sense to be a policy. But for it to be a > > policy, it needs to be documented and communicated somewhere. You > > can't expect this information to just filter out by itself, or expect > > that it's common sense for everyone. > > > > I don't see this listed on http://wiki.qt-project.org/Commit_Policy. > > Should it be? > > Actually, when I read this a second time looking for something > relevant, I see the complete opposite: > > "11. Make sure you submit against the lowest applicable branch from > which a release is still planned. Cherry-picks ("backports") are > frowned upon, while forward-merging to more recent branches happens on > a regular basis."
Well, that is when the branches lies in the same repository. With Qt 4 cannot be merged in Qt 5 because of the modularisation. _______________________________________________ Development mailing list Development@qt-project.org http://lists.qt-project.org/mailman/listinfo/development
