11.04.2017, 14:37, "Tuukka Turunen" <[email protected]>: > 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).
Maybe it's plausible to make 5.8.1 release just for QtBase? > > 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, > -- > Giuseppe D'Angelo | [email protected] | Senior Software Engineer > KDAB (UK) Ltd., a KDAB Group company | Tel: UK +44-1625-809908 > KDAB - Qt, C++ and OpenGL Experts > > _______________________________________________ > Development mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.qt-project.org/mailman/listinfo/development -- Regards, Konstantin _______________________________________________ Development mailing list [email protected] http://lists.qt-project.org/mailman/listinfo/development
