[Development] QtCS 2012: QtSql

[Mark Brand]

Hi,

Just want to summarize the QtSql Session at QtCS 2012.

To be very honest, QtSql contributors were not well-represented at the 
summit in Berlin. Nevertheless, I was able to speak with some of the 
original developers of QtSql, who are now doing other things mostly, and 
exchanged some ideas.

QtSql will mostly likely be moved into its own module. The main reason 
for this is the efficiency of CI testing. It only makes sense to run the 
sql tests when something has been changed in the module. At the moment, 
the tests are only run on sqlite, but if more drivers are tested, this 
will become an even larger consideration.

The fact is that nearly all QtSql development right now depends on 
community contributions. No organization, as far as I know, is 
sponsoring new work.

As the maintainer, one of my responsibilities is to keep on top of the 
bugs filed for QtSql. One of the subjects discussed at the summit was 
how to manage bugs and feature requests without any resources to assign. 
We're forced to make pretty liberal use of "rejected: out of scope, 
patches welcome". It's much easier to ask volunteers to review proposed 
changes than it is to ask them to solve bugs and implement requested 
features from scratch. It doesn't make sense to have open feature 
requests hanging around for years when nobody is working on them. Of 
course, we'll still do what we can to fix show stoppers.

There have been important community contributions to QtSql, but more are 
welcome. I hope those interested in QtSql will take a look at the 
changes already made in Qt 5, take advantage of them, and be inspired to 
contribute.

Please feel free to respond with comments and questions.

regards,

Mark