On 18 March 2013 11:24, Ahumada Sergio <[email protected]> wrote: > > Making of Qt 5.1 minor release will soon start: > > - Plan is to move 'dev' into 'stable' branch on March 19th. > > - After March 19th any changes that are required to get in for 5.1 > need to be pushed into 'stable' branch. So if your needed changes don't > make it today, > please wait after the merge is done and re-target it.
I don't like this very much. We've been running late with the merge, but giving people a 1 day notice (without prior warnings) seems unfair. And, I think stable should never get broken w.r.t. forward binary compatibility, unless at very specific points -- i.e. when we merge -dev into it. The branch guidelines indeed specify that we should freeze and stabilize -dev, not -stable, and release 5.1 alpha out of -dev, not -stable, so that eventual API/ABI fixes to 5.1 material go into -dev. We should merge only when in -beta quality. -- Giuseppe D'Angelo _______________________________________________ Development mailing list [email protected] http://lists.qt-project.org/mailman/listinfo/development
