Trolltech, Qt 4.2 and KDE 4.0

[Thiago Macieira]

Ivor Hewitt wrote:
>On Sunday 12 March 2006 17:19, Thiago Macieira wrote:
>> Thiago Macieira wrote:
>> >What I don't want is bug reports on Qt. We have a team of support
>> >engineers dedicated to assessing all bug reports sent to
>> >qt-bugs at trolltech.com. All bug reports should go through the normal
>> >channels. I'd like to be informed only of critical issues for *KDE*,
>> > for which there is no simple workaround.
>>
>> I also forgot to add:
>>
>> please don't add patches to qt-copy before talking to me or another
>> Trolltech developer first. For various legal reasons, we cannot accept
>> large patches from our users. So, while discussing the code and API is
>> healthy and we hope to do that, we will probably have to write the
>> code ourselves.
>
>Perhaps this is an area/policy that Trolltech needs to reconsider then.
> Why isn't it possible to adopt the standard practice of a copyright
> waiver for submissions like other companies do?
>
>It does feel/seem bizarre that we have a GPL project that uses a library
> under the terms of the GPL, but it is a tortuous process to submit
> fixes/changes, requests disappear into the black hole that is the
> trolltech bug tracker, and code submissions are positively discouraged.
>
>Perhaps with you on board that part of the process is going to be
> transformed now though.

Ok, I knew this would raise a lot of questions when I posted.

Forget what I said about accepting patches. This is an issue that's 
internal to Trolltech and we'll deal with it if we have to.

What I want is that people don't start modifying qt-copy. What I want is 
that, before you even touch Qt code, you get in touch with a Trolltech 
developer. The solution may be already there, or planned; or the solution 
we'd rather go with is completely different from your initial ideas; or 
we may simply reject the idea.

So, forget about the legal issues about accepting patches and concentrate 
on the technical ones. We have our own release cycle, for instance. Talk 
to a developer before you start modifying qt-copy and decide with him how 
to go about it.

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