Hi, As long as we don't have enough time fix all the problems in a non LTS release, I think releasing at least one patch version is not that bad ...
Yours, BogDan. În ziua de luni, 29 ianuarie 2018, la 10:15:51 EET, Simon Hausmann a scris: > Hi, > > > I feel that we are generally guiding our users towards the LTS releases. The > minor releases appear to address in particular users who need a particular > feature before it hits the next LTS release. > > > In the light of that, I think it would be better to keep the LTS branches > open longer and stop doing patch releases for minor releases that are not > LTS. > > > > Simon > > ________________________________ > From: Development <[email protected]> > on behalf of Jani Heikkinen <[email protected]> Sent: Monday, January > 29, 2018 7:59:06 AM > To: [email protected] > Subject: [Development] Qt branches & proposal how to continue with those > > Hi, > > We have currently really many branches open: > - 5.6 > - 5.9 > - 5.10 > - 5.10.1 > - 5.11 > - dev > > In my opinion this is too much to handle effectively, especially because > there is many branches in stable mode (see > http://code.qt.io/cgit/meta/quips.git/tree/quip-0005.rst). Currently '5.6' > is in 'strict' mode and '5.9', 5.10' & '5.11' are in stable... I think we > need to change that to be able to work efficiently & get releases out. > > So I am proposing following changes starting from 1st Feb 2018: > > - '5.6' will move in 'very strict' mode > - '5.9' will move in 'strict' mode. So no direct submissions anymore, just > cherry picks from stable - '5.10' will be closed and Qt 5.10.1 will be the > final release from Qt 5.10 series (5.6 and 5.9 are LTS branches so we > shouldn't keep Qt 5.10 active too long) - '5.11' will be to one and only > stable branch > > br, > > Jani > _______________________________________________ > 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
