Hi,
We have discussed this already multiple times and it is well known by everyone.
Closing of the branch has been clearly decided, only item open has been the
time. Now that we have 5.9 beta released, I think it clearly is the time to
close 5.8 and fully focus into making Qt 5.9 good. The sooner we get 5.9.0 out,
the sooner we can also get 5.9.1 out. And note that 5.9.0 contains every fix
that would have been part of 5.8.1 and more – a lot more.
No-one is happy about skipping patch releases for 5.8. This is a trade off done
in order to get better Qt releases in the future. Keeping 5.8 branch open and
pushing fixes there instead of 5.9 results in worse 5.9 than we could have by
focusing to it. Every single merge from 5.8 to 5.9 is time away from people to
work on 5.9 (and dev), from machines to be able to work on 5.9 (and dev), and
from calendar time of having fixes on the hands of most of the users (i.e.
getting them into a release of Qt or pre-releases of Qt).
Yours,
Tuukka
On 11/04/2017, 14.17, "Development on behalf of Giuseppe D'Angelo"
<[email protected] on behalf of
[email protected]> wrote:
Il 11/04/2017 12:46, Aleix Pol ha scritto:
> What's the point of keeping 5.8 open if there's not going to be
> another 5.8 release?
Because of customer projects, Linux distributions, etc. that are
currently on 5.8, and that want to benefit from the latest bug fixes and
performance improvements without waiting 4-5 months for 5.9.1.
Yes, they *will* skip any .0 release, and convincing customers to
upgrade to a new minor release is definitely more complicated than
convincing to upgrade to a new patch release (... which in this case
translates to tracking the 5.8 branch).
Cheers,
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KDAB (UK) Ltd., a KDAB Group company | Tel: UK +44-1625-809908
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