Re: [Development] Proposal to adjust release candidate process

2016-12-23 Thread Simon Hausmann
Ahhh, I'm sorry, I misunderstood your email. Yes, you're right, in that case the branch makes no difference and beta is a better name. Simon From: Development on behalf of Thiago Macieira Sent: Friday, December 23, 2016 4:42:12 PM To: development@qt-project

Re: [Development] Proposal to adjust release candidate process

2016-12-23 Thread Thiago Macieira
Em sexta-feira, 23 de dezembro de 2016, às 13:27:30 BRST, Simon Hausmann escreveu: > I find that the branch is relevant in this context, as it relates to the > amount of patches going in. The amount of patches going in is IMO related > to the probably of introducing regressions. The process around

Re: [Development] Proposal to adjust release candidate process

2016-12-23 Thread Simon Hausmann
Hi, I find that the branch is relevant in this context, as it relates to the amount of patches going in. The amount of patches going in is IMO related to the probably of introducing regressions. The process around the release branch, as opposed to the "minor branch", as proven to be a useful me

Re: [Development] Proposal to adjust release candidate process

2016-12-23 Thread Thiago Macieira
Em sexta-feira, 23 de dezembro de 2016, às 07:17:01 BRST, Tuukka Turunen escreveu: > > Call it beta 2 (or gamma 1) right after branch and one we've iterated and > > we could have released, we call it release candidate. We release them > > more often, with more iterations, so that we get more feedb

Re: [Development] [Announce] Qt 5.8.0 RC released

2016-12-23 Thread Tim Blechmann
>>> cd gui/ && ( test -e Makefile || >>> /Users/tim/dev/qt3rd/build-Qt-5.x-dev-macx-clang-static/qtbase/bin/qmake >>> -o Makefile /Users/tim/dev/qt3rd/qtbase/src/gui/gui.pro -qtconf >>> /Users/tim/dev/qt3rd/build-Qt-5.x-dev-macx-clang-static/qtbase/bin/qt.con >>> f -- -qt-zlib -qt-harfbuzz -no-glib