Re: [Development] Release plan moving forward

2017-05-10 Thread Lars Knoll
Hi, > On 10 May 2017, at 13:05, Robin Burchell wrote: > > Hi, > > Responding to just the LTS news: I think that this is tentatively good > news. I worry, though, on a releasing front whether it is realistic to > consider supporting now two LTS branches, plus potentially 2-3 normal > branches a

Re: [Development] Release plan moving forward

2017-05-10 Thread Uwe Rathmann
Hi Lars, > 5.6.3 is planned for Summer (current plan is August), close to 18 months > after the first release. So yes, the 'very strict’ mode would be coming > somewhat early, but more by 6 months than a full year. Or to put it this way: 5.6 LTS guarantees, that all serious bugs found during the

Re: [Development] Release plan moving forward

2017-05-10 Thread Antonio Larrosa
On 10/05/17 11:25, Lars Knoll wrote: Hi, So we are now planning to make Qt 5.9 a LTS release. It's been 3 minor releases since 5.6 and a lot of good things have happened in Qt, so this should be very good news to those of our users that don't always want to be on the bleeding edge but are lo

Re: [Development] Release plan moving forward

2017-05-10 Thread Robin Burchell
Hi, Responding to just the LTS news: I think that this is tentatively good news. I worry, though, on a releasing front whether it is realistic to consider supporting now two LTS branches, plus potentially 2-3 normal branches at the same time, especially since we don't yet have firm proof that we a

Re: [Development] Release plan moving forward

2017-05-10 Thread Lars Knoll
Hi Uwe, thanks for the feedback on the plan. So far this is the general outline, and some fine tuning can certainly be done. Would be good to hear more feedback from others as well. > On 10 May 2017, at 10:56, Uwe Rathmann wrote: > > On Wed, 10 May 2017 09:21:37 +0200, André Hartmann wrote: >

Re: [Development] Release plan moving forward

2017-05-10 Thread Uwe Rathmann
On Wed, 10 May 2017 09:21:37 +0200, André Hartmann wrote: > From Lars original mail: > > > Of course, we will also continue to support 5.6 for the promised > > three years. We are planning to release 5.6.3 in Summer, after which > > 5.6 will move into the 'very strict' mode as defined in the

Re: [Development] Release plan moving forward

2017-05-10 Thread André Hartmann
Hi Uwe, On Tue, 09 May 2017 13:35:52 +, Lars Knoll wrote: So we are now planning to make Qt 5.9 a LTS release. It's been 3 minor releases since 5.6 and a lot of good things have happened in Qt, so this should be very good news to those of our users that don't always want to be on the bleed

Re: [Development] Release plan moving forward

2017-05-10 Thread Uwe Rathmann
On Tue, 09 May 2017 13:35:52 +, Lars Knoll wrote: > So we are now planning to make Qt 5.9 a LTS release. It's been 3 minor > releases since 5.6 and a lot of good things have happened in Qt, so this > should be very good news to those of our users that don't always want to > be on the bleeding

[Development] Release plan moving forward

2017-05-09 Thread Lars Knoll
Hi everybody, I believe I have some good news to share with regards to our releases moving forward. As you all know, we had quite some trouble getting patch level releases out over the last year, going so far that we ended up not doing patch level releases for 5.8. Fortunately, things are star