When to branch off 2.9 (was: Re: 2.8.7 and 2.9 release plan)

[Cyrille Berger]

On 2014-11-24 10:02, Friedrich W. H. Kossebau wrote:
> So to get the port done as quickly and clean as possible, I would vote 
> for a
> complete freeze of master, until the port is done (which would be 
> roughly a
> month I hope). And if master is frozen anyway, the port could also be 
> directly
> done there.

Except that there are people who check out master just for testing, for 
instance some of the artists in the Krita community (unless this has 
changed?) and others in the KDE community. That is one of the actual 
benefit behind "master is always" stable.

And even though, qt5 port is an exceptional matter, I think it is better 
to follow as closely as possible our habits, this way it limits the 
number of mistakes that we do.

So I would suggest:

* branch to 2.9 at beta 1
* freeze master, make it follow branch/2.9, we might even ask sysadmin 
to restrict pushing to master to calligra git admins (that would be 
Boudewijn and me)
* do the port in a separate branch

-- 
Cyrille Berger Skott