[Development] Qt 5.9 prebuild binary packages( was: Re: Qt 5.9)

2016-12-20 Thread Jani Heikkinen
Hi all, I finally managed to do testing how big combined windows installer would be. I was a bit surprised that it is only ~3.3 GB, which is still smaller than combined mac-android-ios installer ;) Ok, this is done from 5.8 packages & binaries so situation might be a bit different in 5.9 where

Re: [Development] Proposal to adjust release candidate process

2016-12-20 Thread Sean Harmer
On Tuesday 20 December 2016 15:14:17 Sean Harmer wrote: > Hi Tuukka, > > I agree with your proposal, however I think there is also another issue or > two that we should address. Except that instead of calling it RC1 why not call it another beta? The RC should be something that *may* be suitable

Re: [Development] Proposal to adjust release candidate process

2016-12-20 Thread Sean Harmer
Hi Tuukka, I agree with your proposal, however I think there is also another issue or two that we should address. At present we have ~ 4 releases per year 2 minor versions and 2 further patch releases. One issue is that it looks like 5.8.0 will soon render the very new 5.7.1 release redundant.

Re: [Development] Proposal to adjust release candidate process

2016-12-20 Thread Shawn Rutledge
> On 20 Dec 2016, at 14:34, Tuukka Turunen wrote: > > > Hi, > > I think we have three major problems with our current release process > regarding the release candidate phase: > 1. Process to make a RC that is as flawless as final causes > inefficiency as we only get full test coverag

[Development] Proposal to adjust release candidate process

2016-12-20 Thread Tuukka Turunen
Hi, I think we have three major problems with our current release process regarding the release candidate phase: 1. Process to make a RC that is as flawless as final causes inefficiency as we only get full test coverage with the RC itself 2. We get full attention for testing a bit