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[Alexander Sack <asac@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Thu, Feb 13, 2014 at 6:45 AM, Timo Jyrinki
<timo.jyrinki@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Wed, Feb 12, 2014 at 3:47 PM, Daniel Holbach
> <daniel.holbach@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> With the project almost ready to land, could we relax the "no regressions"
>> policy for this particular landing?
>
> I agree with your rationale and a part of me would like to see "bite
> the bullet", but there are several enough reasons to not do so. If
> it'd be started soon and taking the risk, I can see how it could
> potentially block everything else (including desktop - Unity 7 depends
> on some things that depend on Qt 5) even until the feature freeze. And
> then we would have broken images and not able to land other things on
> time. One key thing to land on the desktop side is updated nux +
> compiz + unity for this cycle.
>
> I believe that immediately after the FF is over (if not already), a
> complete focus will be on landing 5.2 by fixing the remaining issues.
> The Qt itself should be now "final", sans polishing, as of yesterday.
> I've automated the PPA so far that maintaining the automatic builds by
> itself is not much of an issue, but the downside is that the blockers,
> old or new, are not immediately visible to everyone. The 5.2.1 in
> there is now very new, so I expect a few new issues may need to be
> found out.
>

Do we have a list of AP results giving us a forecast what happens if
if we drop the qt 5.2 into the current image?

And yes, the "lets throw a nuke into the archive" approach is
something we do not even want to discuss as an option here ...


> -Timo
>
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