Hi all,

Finally it seems we can release Qt 5.5 Beta quite soon. We are trying to put it 
out during this week; I am really hoping we can finally do it. As you all 
should know we are badly behind the schedule and so on we need adjust our plan 
so that we can still get Qt 5.5 out before summer holiday season starts.


First of of all we need to declare string freeze for Qt 5.5 modules. It is now 
time to start keeping the translatable strings as it is and fix remaining 
important issues. I think it should be OK to have official string freeze 
already 22.5.2015.


We need also start branching from '5.5' to '5.5.0' quite soon after the beta 
release. To be able to release final during June we need to start branching 
latest 25.5.2015 & do final downmerge from '5.5' to '5.5.0' 1.6.2015.


With schedule above we could have RC 11.6.2015 & Final 23.6.2015.


So it will be really tight to get Qt5.5 out before summer holidays. To ensure 
that we need to minimize changes after the beta release & be really ready at 
RC. This means all needed changes MUST BE IN well before RC, latest 7.6.2015 
(including all changes files etc)! We also need to avoid all nice-to-have fixes 
etc now to minimize risks. I hope everyone can understand that & not trying to 
put those in. Please be tight with that; postpone all possible changes in 
5.5.1/5.6! I know this is a bit silly at this point when beta isn't even out 
but we need to do this to be able to keep the schedule above.


Every idea how to secure the schedule is welcome. I hope everyone takes this 
seriously & do their best to make this happen!


br,

Jani
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