On Fri, Nov 25, 2016 at 08:41:42PM +0100, André Pönitz wrote: > On Fri, Nov 25, 2016 at 05:09:30PM +0100, Giuseppe D'Angelo wrote: > > 1) The whole motivation for stop doing merges from 5.6 forward is the > > high number of conflicts between the branches. > > That's not true, it's also about the time it takes for a patch to > trickle down from 5.6 to dev to enable dependent work there. > that only makes sense when you add the word "integrating" here. because nothing is stopping you from having said changes cherry-picked locally. this even extends to whole teams, if the involved people are capable of using git beyond the three basic commands.
> > This makes using a LTS quite less attractive to me. > > Using with what hat on? People with a "end user programmer hat" want > something stable there, no new features. > who's talking about features? and if you don't want _any_ changes, then you obviosly don't need to update. > People with a "Qt developer hat" do not want to wait weeks for > dependendecies to trickle down. > only those who appear to be constantly chased by the devil himself. i have no problem whatsoever to do followup work while earlier changes wait for integration. _______________________________________________ Development mailing list [email protected] http://lists.qt-project.org/mailman/listinfo/development
