[Development] Contributing to the Qt Project behind a hefty firewall and proxy server

[Laszlo Papp]

> Sorry, but bike locks have keys to disable them. The sanity bot have an option
> to override it. Where is that option in your firewall?

Going through 443.

> You have no excuse. If you are supposed to work on Qt, your company should
> give you the infrasctructure to do your work.

Unless it is fixable upstream which seems to be the case anyway. KDE
was able to fix this. Github was able to fix this. People so far
agreed upon to fix this for the Qt Project, so nothing really needed
afterwards to change at other places, just once.

> Did you already open the ticket for your IT department as Thiago suggested
> you? Because as slow as it might be, it may still take less time than waiting
> for qt-project to change as well. (also a big corporation).

Like I said, I have had such type of tickets open for eons.

> I don't know why you are even arguing to justify the bad behaviour of your IT
> department.

You did not get the whole point. Changing all the policies upside down
is not the only approach to fix the situation for many places in one
place, especially not for short or most of the times even for long
term.

> Do you realize you are asking the Qt project to adapt because your company
> can't provide you the basics to do your work?

Yes, and that is way, way, and way simpler solution than arguing in
tons of companies internally for eons. Adapting the Qt Project to
companies' need, if it is beneficial for the project (and no drawback
for others of course) is a very good idea IMO. Like new contribution
in this special case..

> What will be the next step? "Sorry I don't compile my changes anymore because
> the company antivirus won't let me compile." or "Can you please change gerrit
> to accept my patches embedded in .doc document because I'm not allowed to
> install git on my workstation and all I have is MS Office, lol"

No comment.

Best Regards,
Laszlo Papp