Moving stuff upstream

[Aaron J. Seigo]

On Wednesday, February 16, 2011, Stephen Kelly wrote:
> <ddenis> jlayt: I don't see it happening :( For example - currency -
> KLocale just provides too much - we _can_ put it all to Qt, but it will
> take too much effort with no clear benefit - nobody asking for that.
> People are asking us to provide a way to format money (number to string),
> nothing more

to me this highlights things we need to work on within the Qt ecosystem:

* KDE represents a "somebody"; or put another way -> "Qt developers: stop 
treating one of your largest downstreams as a nobody." to claim nobody is 
asking for it when we have implemented it and hundreds of applications use it 
is a bit ... odd :)

* if it is too much effort for the core Qt team given their resources, then 
perhaps we need to find ways to re-purpose some of our efforts in kdelibs 
(something others have said long before this email, of course :). that 
requires, however, a working relationship in which all parties feel confident 
that efforts will not be going to waste, which is a role for open governance 
to fill

* clearer externally visible roadmaps for Qt so we can coordinate and avoid 
the left hand / right hand thing you observed. another role for open 
governance.

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Aaron J. Seigo
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