Choosing the qt tree to file merge requests

[Thiago Macieira]

Em Sábado 12. Setembro 2009, às 18.10.51, Michael Jansen escreveu:
> On Saturday 12 September 2009 17:12:14 you wrote:
> > Em Sábado 12. Setembro 2009, às 16.56.13, Aaron J. Seigo escreveu:
> > > On September 12, 2009, Christoph Feck wrote:
> > > > On Saturday 12 September 2009 13:23:17 Tom Albers wrote:
> > > > > Op Saturday 12 September 2009 03:15 schreef u:
> > > > > > There's been some discussion about making KDE 4.4 depend on Qt
> > > > > > 4.6, but I didn't see any consensus.
> > > > >
> > > > > There is imho consensus: we will depend on it.
> > > >
> > > > Not sure how upgrading Qt was handled before, but would it make sense
> > > > to sync "qt-copy" with Qt 4.6 tp1 so that we can start giving
> > > > feedback to Nokia? Maybe not requiring it right now, but some kind of
> > > > "mass regression test".
> > >
> > > i would personally appreciate this. it will give us more time to get Qt
> > > 4.6 testing done and we already have some patches waiting for Qt 4.6 to
> > > land, at least one of which fixes a bug in trunk.
> > >
> > > > Running trunk with 4.6 right now (there are some post-4.6 tp1
> > > > regressions in QtGui, but tp1 should work fine).
> > >
> > > i think it probably makes sense to keep kde-qt sync'd to tagged
> > > milestones rather than track the day-to-day bleeding edge. people who
> > > want that can get it easily enough. :)
> >
> > Tag v4.6.0-tp1 pushed to kde-qt.git.
> >
> > It's exactly the same as the one in qt.git, as was to be expected.
> >
> > We won't need a branch until someone has patches to submit. At this
> > point, patches should be submitted to qt.git and reviewed by trolls.
> 
> Given the response time i experience there for pretty trivial fixes this is
> probably the correct way, but not a promising one.

Better the correct but slow than the incorrect one.

We're doing what we can to expedite patches.

And know that trivial fixes are often the ones that break stuff. So, when 
submitting a patch to Qt, include a new unit test and make sure the rest of 
the testcase is passing.

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