What's "qt5-stable" on build.kde.org

[Ben Cooksley]

On Tue, Sep 16, 2014 at 9:45 PM, Martin Gräßlin <mgraesslin at kde.org> wrote:
> On Tuesday 16 September 2014 21:23:54 Ben Cooksley wrote:
>> I wrote this a bit too quickly.
>> The correct url is
>> http://build.kde.org/view/External_Deps/job/qt5_master_qt5/
>>
>> What the system means by "stable" in the output is that is the branch
>> that it should theoretically be building against.
>> This information is drawn from the build metadata available to it. It
>> has no correspondence with the job name.
>>
>> In the case of Qt 5, this information is maintained in the CI scripts own
>> files.
>
> thanks, that explains it. From the latest build log:
>
> "Branch jenkins set up to track remote branch stable from origin."
>
> and the stable branch seems to no longer being updated on upstream's side.
> qtbase is set to 8fa9121 according to build's output.
>
> This is older than the patch I got into Qt 5.
>
> Maybe it would be better to track the 5.3 branch instead?
>

That is a development decision. Once taken, the necessary file to
adjust is the same as for all other KDE projects:
logical-module-structure

> Cheers
> Martin

Thanks,
Ben

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