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

[Sven Anderson]

On 16.07.2012 15:26, Laszlo Papp wrote:
>> 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.

No, going through 443 is _not_ an option of the firewall, it's like 
lock-picking a useless lock.

>> 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.

It's not a fix at all. It's a workaround. Important difference!


Sven