Meeting minutes from Qt Release Team meeting Tue 31st August 2021 Qt 6.1 status: - Qt 6.1.3 release content frozen & testing pretty much done - We will release Qt 6.1.3 Wed 1st September - Qt 6.1.3 will be the last release from Qt 6.1 series
Qt 6.2 status: - Qt 6.2.0 Beta4 content almost ready; dependency update round ongoing - Target is to release Qt 6.2.0 beta4 at the end of this week - Preparations for RC to be started * Branching from '6.2' to '6.2.0' will happen Monday 6th September * RC target 14th September, RC Blocker list here: https://bugreports.qt.io/issues/?filter=23260 ** Only 12 issues open in the list and only 2 issues without a fix (proposal) --> please make sure all Qt 6.2.0 release blockers will be visible in the release blocker list now; we need to recognize all blockers now & get those fixed early enough for RC Qt 6.3 Initial schedule: - Schedule proposal sent to development ML a week ago (https://lists.qt-project.org/pipermail/development/2021-August/041713.html), no objections --> Qt 6.3 Initial schedule is: * Qt 6.3 Feature Freeze 10th December 2021 * Qt 6.3 Alpha release 16th December 2021 * Qt 6.3 Beta1 release 12th January 2022 * Qt 6.3 RC 2nd March 2022 * Qt 6.3 Final release 16th March 2022 br, Jani Heikkinen Release Manager Next meeting tue 7th August 2021 16:00 CET in libera.chat #qt-releases irc log below: [17:00:30] <jaheikki3> akseli: iieklund: thiago: lars: frkleint: ankokko: mapaaso:carewolf: ablasche: ping [17:00:40] <carewolf> pong [17:01:53] <jaheikki3> Time to start qt release team meeting [17:01:58] <jaheikki3> On agenda today: [17:02:06] <jaheikki3> Qt 6.1 status [17:02:10] <jaheikki3> Qt 6.2 status [17:02:19] <jaheikki3> Qt 6.3 Initial schedule [17:02:29] <jaheikki3> Any additional item to the agenda? [17:04:07] <jaheikki3> Let's start from Qt 6.1 status [17:04:48] <jaheikki3> Qt 6.1.3 release content frozen & testing pretty much done [17:05:00] <jaheikki3> We will release Qt 6.1.3 Wed 1st September [17:05:36] <jaheikki3> And as agreed earlier Qt 6.1.3 will be the last release from Qt 6.1 series [17:05:38] <carewolf> so it is already packaged? [17:05:50] <jaheikki3> That's all about Qt 6.1 status, any comments or questions? [17:06:00] <thiago> jaheikki3: pong [17:06:54] <jaheikki3> Ok, then Qt 6.2 status [17:07:08] <jaheikki3> Qt 6.2.0 Beta4 content almost ready [17:07:52] <jaheikki3> Dependency update round only needed [17:08:00] <jaheikki3> And it is already ongoing [17:08:12] <jaheikki3> Target is to release Qt 6.2.0 beta4 at the end of this week [17:08:35] <jaheikki3> so preparations for RC to be started after beta4 release [17:09:06] <jaheikki3> At first we should do the branching from 6.2 to 6.2.0 [17:09:32] <carewolf> when will we branch? [17:09:53] <jaheikki3> I think we should do it monday 6th [17:10:59] <jaheikki3> RC target is 14th September so there should be enough time to finalize the RC content [17:11:26] <jaheikki3> RC Blocker list here: https://bugreports.qt.io/issues/?filter=23260 [17:11:34] <jaheikki3> 12 issues open at the moment [17:12:13] <jaheikki3> And only 2 issues without a fix proposal [17:12:47] <jaheikki3> Please make sure all Qt 6.2.0 release blockers will be visible in the release blocker list now; we need to recognize all blockers now & get those fixed early enough for RC [17:13:21] <jaheikki3> It was all about Qt 6.2 status at this time. Any comments or questions? [17:15:06] <jaheikki3> Ok, then Qt 6.3 initial schedule [17:15:26] <jaheikki3> Schedule proposal sent to development ML a week ago (https://lists.qt-project.org/pipermail/development/2021-August/041713.html) [17:15:35] <jaheikki3> There were no objections [17:15:52] <jaheikki3> So Qt 6.3.0 initial schedule is: [17:16:02] <jaheikki3> Qt 6.3 Feature Freeze 10th December 2021 [17:16:09] <jaheikki3> Qt 6.3 Alpha release 16th December 2021 [17:16:16] <jaheikki3> Qt 6.3 Beta1 release 12th January 2022 [17:16:26] <jaheikki3> Qt 6.3 RC 2nd March 2022 [17:16:38] <jaheikki3> Qt 6.3 Final release 16th March 2022 [17:16:53] <thiago> long time between FF and release [17:16:59] <thiago> have we been taking that long? [17:17:23] <carewolf> yeah, pretty standard I think [17:17:23] <jaheikki3> Actually it should be pretty much same time than usual [17:18:42] <jaheikki3> it is based on general schedule defined in https://wiki.qt.io/QtReleasing [17:19:31] <jaheikki3> Any more comments or questions? [17:21:09] <jaheikki3> Ok, it was all at this time. Let's end this meeting now and have new one tue 7th September at this same time [17:21:18] <jaheikki3> Thanks for your participation, bye! [17:21:30] <carewolf> bye _______________________________________________ Releasing mailing list Releasing@qt-project.org https://lists.qt-project.org/listinfo/releasing