29.01.2018, 11:16, "Simon Hausmann" <simon.hausm...@qt.io>: > 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.
When 5.x.0 is released, there is always a bunch of non-P0 bug fixes in 5.x branch which missed the release because of timing issues. I propose following workflow: 1) after 5.x.0 is branched, 5.x is kept open and bug fixes go there 2) after 5.x.0 is finally released, 5.x.1 branching starts immediately with usual one-week buffer time 3) after that, 5.x is closed down > > Simon > ---------------------------------------- > From: Development <development-bounces+simon.hausmann=qt...@qt-project.org> > on behalf of Jani Heikkinen <jani.heikki...@qt.io> > Sent: Monday, January 29, 2018 7:59:06 AM > To: development@qt-project.org > 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 > Development@qt-project.org > http://lists.qt-project.org/mailman/listinfo/development > , > > _______________________________________________ > Development mailing list > Development@qt-project.org > http://lists.qt-project.org/mailman/listinfo/development -- Regards, Konstantin _______________________________________________ Development mailing list Development@qt-project.org http://lists.qt-project.org/mailman/listinfo/development
