Re: Dropping Qt5 CI Support at the End of September 2025 - Sunsetting Qt 5

Christoph Cullmann <[email protected]> Sat, 27 Dec 2025 22:59:53 +0000

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Hi,

> 

> 

> El dissabte, 27 de desembre del 2025, a les 22:18:55 (Hora estàndard d’Europa
> central), Christoph Cullmann va escriure:
> 

> > Hi,
> > 

> > given we soon start 2026: Would it be time to sunset the Qt 5 stuff on
> > invent?
> 

> 

> In July we said it would be in September and there was not a huge uproar, so
> doing it in January 2026 (6 months later than what we said) should be more
> than enough.
> 

> Doing it == "closing the remaining Qt5 CI" and that's it i guess?

That would be the first and most important step.

> 

> Or is there something else that needs to be removed?

I would propose to at least archive the Qt 5 only frameworks,
if we ever need to do a hard security fix we can unarchive one at demand,
that is one click in the GitLab UI.

That will ensure they vanish from the active project lists to avoid any confusion.

And I think it would make sense to do the same with inactive (as unmaintained and rotting)
Qt 5 only stuff.

Greetings
Christoph


> 

> Cheers,
> Albert
> 

> > (beside the Qt patch collection)
> > 

> > Greetings
> > Christoph
> > 

> > On Thursday, July 3rd, 2025 at 21:33, Albert Astals Cid [email protected]
> 

> wrote:
> 

> > > El dijous, 3 de juliol del 2025, a les 16:52:49 (Hora d’estiu d’Europa
> > > 

> > > central), Neal Gompa va escriure:
> > > 

> > > > On Sun, Jun 22, 2025 at 6:31 PM Albert Astals Cid [email protected] wrote:
> > > > 

> > > > > Hi everyone,
> > > > > 

> > > > > While this has been discussed in various forums, it has not yet been
> > > > > the
> > > > > main focus of any conversation.
> > > > > 

> > > > > We are planning to drop support for Qt5 CI on invent.kde.org at the
> > > > > end of
> > > > > September 2025.
> > > > > 

> > > > > If you are still using Qt5 you have 3 months to move to Qt6 or you can
> > > > > try
> > > > > to convince the powers that you need more time with a really good
> > > > > reason.
> > > > > Does this mean we've effectively stopped working on the Qt5 patch
> > > > > collection and we're going to EOL the 24.08-qt5 runtime for Flatpak in
> > > > > September?
> > > 

> > > We do not have CI for the patch collection.
> > > 

> > > I will [try to[ continue doing the rebases for the patch-collection until
> > > Qt 5.15.19 gets released next year.
> > > 

> > > Best Regards,
> > > Albert
> 

> 

> 

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