RFC: remove qt-copy

[Lubos Lunak]

On Wednesday 27 of May 2009, Thiago Macieira wrote:
> Benjamin Meyer wrote:
> >I would even go so far as to
> >say that no patch should be allowed in kde's Qt repo unless it has
> >been submitted to be merged.
>
> I would go even further: the patch should have been reviewed and approved
> for merge, hopefully already merged into the Qt mainline. Qt Software is
> committing itself to reviewing patches quickly. 

 Since when? My last mail from my qt-bugs folder is the end of this January, 
which a rather simple patch attached. Task tracker entry #242875, status 
open, resolution pending, scheduled for not scheduled, priority no priority.

 As an exception, I'm not saying here that qt-bugs sucks, but I'm merely 
pointing out the fact that Qt Software still can't keep up with everything we 
throw at them, and it's a question if they realistically ever can.

> For patches that got rejected, study case-by-case (example is 0180).

 And what? I suggest having a look at qt-copy for Qt3, as that one is much 
more interesting.

 #0001 is a somewhat ugly hack, yet it reportedly made a big difference for 
some people. I don't think TT have ever accepted that, and I don't know what 
they'd think about it (I can't find any qt-bugs reply for that).

 #0048 is a really ugly hack and was meant just as a temporary solution. Two 
years after that, Qt changelog mentions a fix for the problem. A very 
non-trivial problem to solve I might add.

 And there are other patches that have never been accepted, be it the usual 
sloppiness of qt-bugs in the past or any other reason. Even if Qt upstream 
will now suddenly somehow become ultimately perfect, there still will be 
cases when we will need patches that will take time to find their way into Qt 
or where there won't be an agreement, yet we will need them, and I maintain 
that we need a place for those. That is even how qt-copy/patches started, for 
those that don't remember.

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