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

Christoph Cullmann <[email protected]> Sun, 28 Dec 2025 00:32:58 +0000

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Hi,


On Sunday, December 28th, 2025 at 01:29, Justin Zobel <[email protected]> wrote:

> On 28/12/25 08:50, Albert Astals Cid wrote:
> 

> > 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?
> > 

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

> > 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
> 

> What are others thoughts on archiving any project that has not been ported to Qt6 or active Qt6 Merge Request / Branch?
> 

> Unarchiving projects is always possible, and the source code remains available for people to check out read-only and work on. If they start working on a port, they can request the project be unarchived.



I think one should first collect a list of stuff that might be affected and then one can discuss that, e.g. in

https://invent.kde.org/sysadmin/repo-metadata/-/issues/23

Greetings
Christoph

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