Hi, I have nothing against patch releases, on the contrary ;)
If there is good content to go out as Qt 5.2.2 / Creator 3.0.2 for example in beginning of March - and we believe it is possible to create such a release without risking Qt 5.3 schedule - I¹m all for it. I would assume this is a topic release team will discuss on their Monday meetings. ‹ Tuukka On 06/02/14 11:39, "Gladhorn Frederik" <[email protected]> wrote: >Hi Tuukka and all, > >just like Albert said, it's not so much about the time until the next >release. It's more about delivering even more stable Qt releases with >less changes that are more reliable. >While I generally think that we are doing quite a good job in improving >the quality of Qt with both minor and patch releases, some people really >appreciate releases with those few bug fixes like Albert mentioned. >Looking at the stable branch it seems like there are 116 commits for >qtbase alone in the stable branch. > >I have heard from quite a few people that they would really appreciate >those patch releases and ideally we get into the habit of making releases >so smooth that it doesn't cost any extra effort. (we're not quite there >but getting better and better at making releases) > >Greetings, >Frederik > > >(forgive me for top posting, I'm on a broken web mail client here...) >________________________________________ >From: Turunen Tuukka >Sent: Wednesday, February 05, 2014 6:45 PM >To: Gladhorn Frederik; [email protected] >Subject: VS: [Development] Bug fixes to Stable or Dev branch? > >Hi, > >Regarding Qt 5.2.2 - let's see how well 5.2.1 is received. We have now >1,5 months shorter cycle than the usual 6 months for Qt 5.3. I agree that >it was a long wait between 5.1.1 and 5.2.0. > >Yours, > >Tuukka >________________________________________ >Lähettäjä: [email protected] >[[email protected]] >käyttäjän Gladhorn Frederik [[email protected]] >puolesta >Lähetetty: 5. helmikuuta 2014 17:46 >Vastaanottaja: [email protected] >Aihe: Re: [Development] Bug fixes to Stable or Dev branch? > >We have the branch model to make it easy to choose the right branch, >usually without worrying about the releases too much. > >"Normal" bug fixes go always to stable. >Stable is guaranteed to be merged into dev before the next release, so >you'll never have to worry, no patch gets lost. > >Show stoppers just before the release might have to go into the release >branch, this should really be the exception. > >Sometimes a bug is less critical and/or involves huge changes, these may >have to go into the dev branch pending the approvers and your judgement. > >By the way, I heard quite a few requests for more patch releases, maybe >we should aim for 5.2.2 with hopefully only stability improvements. > >Greetings, >Frederik > >________________________________________ >From: [email protected] >[[email protected]] on >behalf of Giuseppe D'Angelo [[email protected]] >Sent: Wednesday, February 05, 2014 4:19 PM >To: [email protected] >Cc: [email protected] >Subject: Re: [Development] Bug fixes to Stable or Dev branch? > >On 5 February 2014 15:55, John Layt <[email protected]> wrote: >> Hi, >> >> I've seeing contradictory advice on Gerrit as to which branch to push >>bug- >> fixes to, some say there will be no 5.2.2 so to use dev instead, others >>say to >> keep using stable in case there is. What is the current "official" >>policy? >> >> Oh, and please remember when making such decisions to clearly >>communicate them >> to this list, not everyone is in the office or on IRC. > >The policy didn't change, see "Where to push a change?" > >http://qt-project.org/wiki/Branch-Guidelines > >It doesn't matter that 5.2.2 is not planned. If the change qualifies >for stable, push it to stable. > >-- >Giuseppe D'Angelo >_______________________________________________ >Development mailing list >[email protected] >http://lists.qt-project.org/mailman/listinfo/development >_______________________________________________ >Development mailing list >[email protected] >http://lists.qt-project.org/mailman/listinfo/development _______________________________________________ Development mailing list [email protected] http://lists.qt-project.org/mailman/listinfo/development
