[webkit-qt] [week 30] Qt 5 version update

[Simon Hausmann]

On Monday, July 23, 2012 02:34:13 PM ext noam.rosenthal at nokia.com wrote:
> Summary of discussion on IRC (Simon, please correct me if I'm wrong):
> - the original idea behind updating the qt5 version weekly was to stay
> somewhat close to source-incompatible changes, which at the time occurred
> very often. - source compatible changes aren't that often anymore.
> - after the Qt5 release, trunk should support both the released version and
> Qt5 trunk, possibly by keeping one of the bots on Qt5-trunk and the rest on
> the released package. We can deal with the details when we get there. - we
> still want to catch source-incompatible changes early.
> 
> Therefore,
> - For now, we should not update the bots weekly, biweekly or monthly, but
> rather do it reactively when there is a Qt5 bugfix that we need or when
> there's a source incompatible change that affects webkit. - If anyone
> reaches a point where a Qt5 upgrade is needed, open a bug and follow the
> same procedure we do now, no need for a huge concensus or to wait for the
> next weekly update. - Hopefully source incompatible changes would continue
> to decrease as Qt5 reaches releasable state.
> 
> Thoughts?

Sounds good. So that also means go for the next update (tomorrow) :)




Simon
 
> ________________________________________
> From: Rosenthal Noam (Nokia-CTO/SiliconValley)
> Sent: Monday, July 23, 2012 6:24 AM
> To: webkit-qt at lists.webkit.org
> Subject: RE: [webkit-qt] [week 30] Qt 5 version update
> 
> I understand the Qt5 beta is coming soon, are we going to need another
> update for the beta? It would be nice if after the beta we could use the
> beta packages with trunk and afterwards the 5.0 released packages.
> 
> Otherwise i have no problem with a 3-week update cycle like this one.
> 
> ________________________________________
> From: webkit-qt-bounces at lists.webkit.org
> [webkit-qt-bounces at lists.webkit.org] on behalf of Hausmann Simon
> (Nokia-MP/Oslo) Sent: Monday, July 23, 2012 5:46 AM
> To: webkit-qt at lists.webkit.org
> Subject: Re: [webkit-qt] [week 30] Qt 5 version update
> 
> On Monday, July 23, 2012 02:18:29 PM ext Osztrogonac Csaba wrote:
> > Hi All,
> > 
> > Qt5 update is coming soon ... ;-)
> > 
> > Last Qt 5 update for WebKit trunk was long time ago, it's time to update
> > again. Now the latest Qt 5 hash is
> > 654fcc335c20431f60d3fde32e636aae38afe658, it seems it works fine.
> > (WK1,WK2,
> > API tests, layout tests)
> > 
> > I'm going to update Qt 5 on the bots soon (in 2-3 hours), and then land
> > the
> > necessary buildfix (by Simon) in
> > https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=91822 (already r+ -ed.)
> 
> Oh, hang on. I realize that we last time we decided that we should decide
> whether or not to update on a case-by-case basis. I want to give the folks
> on the west coast also a chance, so maybe we should wait for them (that
> means earliest update tomorrow, if they're ok with it).
> 
> 
> I'd like to update so that we can follow the QML API changes and I can
> update WebKit in qt5.git to compile again.
> 
> 
> Simon
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