On Mon, Dec 17, 2012 at 2:24 PM, Turunen Tuukka <tuukka.turu...@digia.com>wrote:
> > On 17.12.2012 15.55, "Peter Hartmann" <phartm...@rim.com> wrote: > > >Hello, > > > >would it be possible to get an own 4.8-blackberry10 branch on gitorious > >in the qt repo (https://qt.gitorious.org/qt/qt), similar to the > >4.8.0-symbian branch that still exists? > > > >The thing is for BlackBerry 10 we are working as close to upstream (i.e. > >4.8 branch) as possible, but due to some features we needed that are > >hard to get into 4.8 (e.g. > >https://codereview.qt-project.org/#change,39135) and turnaround time for > >getting patches into Qt 4 (+ getting them into Qt 5 first), it would be > >good if we had an own dedicated branch for it. > > > >We could point people to it in case they want to compile Qt themselves > >for BlackBerry 10, and make sure everybody working on it (us and KDAB) > >is using exactly the same branch. > > > >Alternatively I guess we could just clone the repo into a team clone. > > > >Peter > > > We can discuss this, but personally I am not that fond of creating > platform specific branches. I think the drawbacks of these clearly > outweight the benefits in long run. > > If your problem is mainly turnaround time for getting things in it may be > due to many being busy with getting Qt 5.0.0 out. In general we are still > welcoming improvements to 4.8 as long as they are not behavioral or public > API changes. > There may be several reasons, but I faced issues like getting "Do not submit" without a clear explanation (at least for me). Then I had to wait 1-2 days to get a clear explanation what could be improved. I can understand if such a thing gets blocker for someone. Whether or not it is a CI problem, or something else, it does not matter much for the _moment_ since it remains a problem as of now until fixed. Laszlo
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