Re: [Development] Proposal: Eliminate soft branching phase from release process

2019-11-27 Thread Kari Oikarinen
On 15.10.2019 12.35, Oswald Buddenhagen wrote: > the gist is that this somewhat complicated downmerge process exists for > good reasons. it shifts the "logistical" load of dealing with the > branching from every contributor to the few people involved in the > branch management. > > history

Re: [Development] Proposal: Eliminate soft branching phase from release process

2019-10-15 Thread Edward Welbourne
Kari Oikarinen (Friday, October 11, 2019 3:04 PM) wrote: >>> I want to propose eliminating soft branching phase and instead use >>> the creation of the branch as a cut-off for feature freeze (or bug >>> fixes for a patch release). Frederik already alluded that there has >>> been some discussion

Re: [Development] Proposal: Eliminate soft branching phase from release process

2019-10-15 Thread Oswald Buddenhagen
On Tue, Oct 15, 2019 at 08:38:30AM +, Liang Qi wrote: 2. patch releases, 1st one and others, for the first one, like 5.14.0 perhaps similar story like above. Anyway, for the patch releases, if the changes missed this release, but still could happen in next. So I think it’s better to remove

Re: [Development] Proposal: Eliminate soft branching phase from release process

2019-10-15 Thread Oswald Buddenhagen
On Mon, Oct 14, 2019 at 01:40:48PM +, Kari Oikarinen wrote: On 12.10.2019 14.14, Oswald Buddenhagen wrote: > On Fri, Oct 11, 2019 at 12:04:20PM +, Kari Oikarinen wrote: >> As far as I can tell, the major motivation for providing this week >> of >> soft branching is to allow people to

Re: [Development] Proposal: Eliminate soft branching phase from release process

2019-10-15 Thread Liang Qi
; From: Development on behalf of Kari > Oikarinen > Sent: Friday, October 11, 2019 3:04 PM > To: Qt development mailing list > Subject: [Development] Proposal: Eliminate soft branching phase from release > process > > I want to propose eliminating soft branching phase and instea

Re: [Development] Proposal: Eliminate soft branching phase from release process

2019-10-15 Thread Kari Oikarinen
On 15.10.2019 11.19, Oswald Buddenhagen wrote: > On Tue, Oct 15, 2019 at 06:16:33AM +, Kari Oikarinen wrote: >> After thinking about it again, I agree with you that it's irrelevant. >> There could be a category of changes that would need to wait and I was >> describing it. >> >> But in fact

Re: [Development] Proposal: Eliminate soft branching phase from release process

2019-10-15 Thread Oswald Buddenhagen
On Tue, Oct 15, 2019 at 06:16:33AM +, Kari Oikarinen wrote: After thinking about it again, I agree with you that it's irrelevant. There could be a category of changes that would need to wait and I was describing it. But in fact there isn't, since the branching and the associated cut-off has

Re: [Development] Proposal: Eliminate soft branching phase from release process

2019-10-15 Thread Kari Oikarinen
On 14.10.2019 16.40, Kari Oikarinen wrote: > > > On 12.10.2019 14.14, Oswald Buddenhagen wrote: > > On Fri, Oct 11, 2019 at 12:04:20PM +, Kari Oikarinen wrote: > > > >> Currently there is a bit of uncertainty about when exactly the > >> downmerges happen, > >> > > yes, and

Re: [Development] Proposal: Eliminate soft branching phase from release process

2019-10-14 Thread Kari Oikarinen
On 12.10.2019 14.14, Oswald Buddenhagen wrote: > On Fri, Oct 11, 2019 at 12:04:20PM +, Kari Oikarinen wrote: >> I want to propose eliminating soft branching phase and instead use the >> creation of the branch as a cut-off for feature freeze (or bug fixes >> for a patch release). >> >

Re: [Development] Proposal: Eliminate soft branching phase from release process

2019-10-12 Thread Oswald Buddenhagen
On Fri, Oct 11, 2019 at 12:04:20PM +, Kari Oikarinen wrote: I want to propose eliminating soft branching phase and instead use the creation of the branch as a cut-off for feature freeze (or bug fixes for a patch release). (facepalm) but in case you actually tried to do your homework first

Re: [Development] Proposal: Eliminate soft branching phase from release process

2019-10-11 Thread Jani Heikkinen
+1 This change might also speed up patch level releases a bit br, Jani From: Development on behalf of Kari Oikarinen Sent: Friday, October 11, 2019 3:04 PM To: Qt development mailing list Subject: [Development] Proposal: Eliminate soft branching phase

[Development] Proposal: Eliminate soft branching phase from release process

2019-10-11 Thread Kari Oikarinen
I want to propose eliminating soft branching phase and instead use the creation of the branch as a cut-off for feature freeze (or bug fixes for a patch release). Frederik already alluded that there has been some discussion about making this change in the email about the final downmerge to 5.13.2.