Since we've received no negative feedback on this announcement so far, we
are proceeding with the migration effort, and we plan to merge the linked
PR to REP 3 by the end of the week.

Again, if you protest migrating to Qt 5 in Kinetic, please speak up now.

On Thu, Mar 3, 2016 at 10:36 AM, Jackie Kay <jackie@osrfoundation.org>
wrote:

> (cross-posted to ros-release)
>
> Greetings,
>
> We'd like to announce the proposal to migrate from Qt4 to Qt5 in the next
> ROS distribution, Kinetic Kame. This will affect you if you maintain a
> plugin for Rviz or rqt.
>
> Follow the link to this pull request to REP 3 to learn more:
>
> https://github.com/ros-infrastructure/rep/pull/112
>
> Please comment on the pull request with any questions or concerns.
>
> Thanks,
>
> The ROS Team
>