Em ter 25 fev 2014, às 08:02:17, Uwe Rathmann escreveu: > last week we had the discussion about which version of Qt to use for a > new project. > > What we have seen with Qt5 so far were 5.x.0 releases that were time - > not quality - driven + only few maintenance releases ( 2 for 5.0, 1 for > 5.1 and 5.2 ). In the past there have also been less stable versions of > Qt, but more maintenance releases ( f.e 4 for 4.7 and 4.6 ) we could > trust. > > So our conclusion was that we have a regression in quality - exactly > because of the time based releases - and to act very conservative with Qt > version updates. > > Time based releases might be good for creating more versions in time, but > what is it worth, when users don't follow anymore ?
Hi Uwe That's a very good point you raise. But I should point out that the amount of work being done to stabilise has not changed. The only things that have are that those fixes often end up in a feature release. The release team discussed yesterday the need for more patch releases. We had a heated discussion on whether we should do 5.2.2. The conclusion was that we should, but we can't: we don't have the resources to do it without sacrificing our long-term objectives to shift the release schedule. We also briefly discussed the need to have a Long Term Support release with longer lifetime, but we quickly concluded this is a topic for the Contributor Summit and it depends a lot on the conclusion of the branching scheme from this thread. -- Thiago Macieira - thiago.macieira (AT) intel.com Software Architect - Intel Open Source Technology Center _______________________________________________ Development mailing list [email protected] http://lists.qt-project.org/mailman/listinfo/development
