On Fri, Nov 25, 2016 at 05:09:30PM +0100, Giuseppe D'Angelo wrote: > So, while on one hand this new branching scheme distributes the burden > from the current merge masters onto the bigger community, in practice > I'm very afraid (read: almost certain) that this will mean that very > few people will be willing to do the extra work, hence leaving 5.6 > unpatched for ordinary, non-critical bug fixes. > i said that much myself previously.
> Are we sure there isn't a better way? > maybe you should have raised that concern when the topic was discussed previously on this list (about two or three times) or at the contributor summit. as an immediate measure, you may step up and _commit to_ being the merge monkey (at least for the 5.6 -> 5.8 merges). if you do that quick enough (like, monday), we may reconsider. and for everyone else this uncertainty means that they should hold off their bugfix integrations on 5.8, to avoid the cherry-picks they were prepared to do. _______________________________________________ Development mailing list [email protected] http://lists.qt-project.org/mailman/listinfo/development
