On 18.12.2012 17.06, "Peter Hartmann" <phartm...@rim.com> wrote:
>On 12/18/2012 12:05 PM, Sean Harmer wrote: >> (...) >>> In case we decide to proceed with creation of a vendor branch, is it >>> planned to be a temporary solution or something permanent? > >some months ago, I was confident that this would be something temporary; >unfortunately, practice has shown that so far we always had a few >commits (1-10) that we needed to "short-circuit" into our branch because >some internal team needed a commit urgently (maybe people that have >worked on the N9 remember that situation). So I don't expect that branch >to go away anytime soon, to be honest. Eventually we need to have a policy for these in the Qt Project. There are thousands of different embedded devices being created, and gets hard if we create branch for everyone. I know that you are very busy now, so we do not need to decide this at the moment. But it just something to plan going forward. Yours, Tuukka > >> >> I suppose that entirely depends upon what gets committed there. The >>general >> idea is to keep this branch as the minimum set of patches needed for >>this >> platform that cannot be merged into the Qt mainline. Peter already >>mentioned >> one such patch. > >Yes, this is another reason why the branch will most likely not become >redundant... > >Peter > >> >> The case of expediting patches in this branch is to allow this to >>happen in >> the open in the spirit of the Qt project. Wherever possible the idea is >>to >> upstream the patches into the Qt mainline so that the vendor branch >>remains as >> close as possible to the official Qt Project version. >> >> Vladimir and Peter may have more to add of course. >> >> All the best, >> >> Sean >> -- >> Dr Sean Harmer | sean.har...@kdab.com | Senior Software Engineer >> Klarälvdalens Datakonsult AB, a KDAB Group company >> Tel. Sweden (HQ) +46-563-540090, USA +1-866-777-KDAB(5322) >> KDAB - Qt Experts - Platform-independent software solutions >> _______________________________________________ >> Development mailing list >> Development@qt-project.org >> http://lists.qt-project.org/mailman/listinfo/development >> > > >--------------------------------------------------------------------- >This transmission (including any attachments) may contain confidential >information, privileged material (including material protected by the >solicitor-client or other applicable privileges), or constitute >non-public information. Any use of this information by anyone other than >the intended recipient is prohibited. If you have received this >transmission in error, please immediately reply to the sender and delete >this information from your system. Use, dissemination, distribution, or >reproduction of this transmission by unintended recipients is not >authorized and may be unlawful. _______________________________________________ Development mailing list Development@qt-project.org http://lists.qt-project.org/mailman/listinfo/development