[Development] How to create new Qt modules or tools

[Rohan McGovern]

Laszlo Papp said:
> 
> 1) Build and software testing service
> Is there a build and software testing service provided for projects in
> the Qt Playground repositories ? I have not seen any mentionings about
> that so far. and it is an important question in my case, for instance.
> I have been using CDash [1] for projects under the KDE umbrella. It is
> possible as long as I use cmake as a build system in my project. I
> think such a build and software testing service along with the
> publishing of the build results would increase the QA of those
> playground projects. I know there are such QA services for "final"
> modules. I was just curious if those tools, providing the relevant
> services, are available to Qt Playground projects or not. If not, are
> there some other options ? It would be really nice if playground
> projects could get such an attention. I am not willing to propose it
> for all the projects there because I do not know the capacity, but at
> least for projects and maintainers there who are interested in this
> matter.
> 

Security is a potential issue for providing the same test resources
used for the main Qt modules to be also used against playground
modules.  These test machines are Internet-connected[1], and arbitrary code
can be set up to run on them; lowering the barrier for getting this
arbitrary code onto the machines of course increases the security risk.

> http://my.cdash.org/

It would be interesting to know for example how Kitware handled this
issue for the above, or if it was explicitly decided to accept the risk
(which may well be a valid approach, given that the process includes a
trusted maintainer signing off on the new playground project).

[1] perhaps not forever - I'm describing the way things are and not
necessarily the way they should be :)