the final downmerge from dev to 5.8 is now completed. 5.8 is now officially feature-frozen, approved exceptions notwithstanding.
dev is 5.9 material now. as usual, cherry-picks only with a *really* good justification _and_ bribe/sacrifice. get your 5.8 must-have changes re-targeted *before* integrating. On Tue, Aug 16, 2016 at 03:13:53PM +0000, Jani Heikkinen wrote: > Hi all, > > We have still issues with qt5.git integration in 'dev' and some configuration > system related changes are missing as well. That's why we agreed to postpone > final branching (&FF) a bit in today's release team meeting (memo coming > later). New target is Monday 22nd August 2016. > > Please do not merge new stuff into dev (that's not strictly required for 5.8) > at this point to help us with qt5.git integration. Especially please avoid > changes to public or internal APIs for this one week. > > Br, > Jani > > From: Jani Heikkinen > Sent: 8. elokuuta 2016 13:58 > To: development@qt-project.org > Cc: releas...@qt-project.org > Subject: HEADS-UP: Branching from 'dev' to '5.8' ongoing, Qt 5.8 Feature > Freeze coming... > > > Hi all, > > > > Qt5.git integration in 'dev' succeed during the weekend and we have soft > branched '5.8' from 'dev'. It means Qt 5.8 Feature Freeze will be effect 15th > August 2016 as well as final branching from 'dev' to '5.8' > > > > So please start using '5.8' for changes targeted to Qt 5.8 release and > finalize ongoing ones in 'dev'. Final downmerge from 'dev' to '5.8' will > happen Monday 15th Aug (morning). > > > > Please make sure > > - All new modules for Qt 5.8 are in 'dev' & part of qt5.git > > - All mandatory new features are in 'dev' now or coming in within a week? > > - New feature page contains all new features etc: > https://wiki.qt.io/New_Features_in_Qt_5.8 > > > > We will create first src packages from latest qt5.git integration as soon as > possible. Please check the packages immediately when available to see if > something important is missing. Those packages should be quite close to Qt > 5.8 alpha packages so it will be really important to check the packages now. > > > br, > Jani > > > > Jani Heikkinen > Release Manager > > The Qt Company > Elektroniikkatie 13 > 90590 Oulu Finland > jani.heikki...@qt.io<mailto:jani.heikki...@qt.io> > +358 50 4873735 > http://qt.io<http://qt.io/> > > > > [http://s3-eu-west-1.amazonaws.com/qt-files/logos/qt_logo_with_text_green_rgb_400x141.png]<http://qt.io/> > [http://s3-eu-west-1.amazonaws.com/qt-files/logos/SoMe/qt_facebook.png]<http://www.facebook.com/Qt> > > [http://s3-eu-west-1.amazonaws.com/qt-files/logos/SoMe/qt_twitter.png]<http://www.twitter.com/qtproject> > > [http://s3-eu-west-1.amazonaws.com/qt-files/logos/SoMe/qt_linkedin.png]<https://www.linkedin.com/company/the-qt-company/> > > [http://s3-eu-west-1.amazonaws.com/qt-files/logos/SoMe/qt_googleplus.png]<https://plus.google.com/104580575722059274792> > > [http://s3-eu-west-1.amazonaws.com/qt-files/logos/SoMe/qt_youtube.png]<https://www.youtube.com/QtStudios> > > > _______________________________________________ > Releasing mailing list > releas...@qt-project.org > http://lists.qt-project.org/mailman/listinfo/releasing _______________________________________________ Development mailing list Development@qt-project.org http://lists.qt-project.org/mailman/listinfo/development
