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.
Hi, The warning was giving a month ago http://lists.qt-project.org/pipermail/development/2013-February/009838.html So this one extra day (or two) is just a friendly reminder. About the tag, one could argue that making the tag (and alpha release) before or after the merge might be the same. Cheers, -- Sergio Ahumada Release Engineer - Digia, Qt _______________________________________________ Development mailing list [email protected] http://lists.qt-project.org/mailman/listinfo/development
