[Development] Proposal - QtSerialPort graduation from the Playground

[lars.knoll at nokia.com]

Hi,


On Jul 23, 2012, at 7:15 PM, ext Laszlo Papp <lpapp at kde.org> wrote:
> The QtSerialPort project was established a little over than half a
> year ago [1] in Playground. The project had already been useful (at
> least to me) at the time, but it has gone through a lot of bug fixes.
> Furthermore, there were API modifications, and also a few new features
> implemented and integrated.
> 
> Here you can find, what we have:
> 
> * Most of the commits (all?) were reviewed by at least one, but
> usually two or more, person(s) via gerrit since it had been imported
> into Playground.
> * Qt4 and Qt5 support
> * Mac, Symbian, Windows, and Linux (included embedded like ubuntu-arm
> with Pandaboard, Beagleboard and so forth) support
> * Three examples: one command line based, and two widgets based
> (optionally built, if the dependency present)
> * Downstream commercial (my business project) and open source projects
> (like serial terminal)
> * Semi-auto tests (no fully automated due to the lack of proper QtMock module)
> * Public API documentation (This was also reviewed inside the team)
> * QMake build system usage
> 
> We would now like to kindly propose this project with Denis Shienkov
> (Founder and Maintainer) as an add-on module according to the official
> procedure [2]. We can help with all the integration tasks to a certain
> degree (our karma), like necessary qmake file modifications and so
> forth.

Great to hear you think it's ready as an add-on. The list of things you've achieved above sounds pretty good and complete. So IMO the main thing that still should happen is a review of the APIs and docs. I'm willing to go through it, once we have the Qt 5 beta out, and proceed from there.

Cheers,
Lars

> Last, but not least, any feedback is welcome about the feature set,
> API, implementation, and so forth ...
> 
> Best Regards,
> Laszlo Papp
> 
> [1] http://lists.qt-project.org/pipermail/development/2011-December/000702.html
> [2] http://qt-project.org/wiki/Creating-a-new-module-or-tool-for-Qt#06c0b77b18e06e07188283b99254d2ba