[Development] What's with bugreports.qt-project.org?

[Shaw Andy]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Stephen Chu [mailto:stephen at ju-ju.com]
> Sent: 26. september 2012 15:55
> To: Shaw Andy
> Cc: Иван Комиссаров; Konstantin Tokarev; development
> Subject: Re: [Development] What's with bugreports.qt-project.org?
> 
> On 9/26/12 6:44 AM, Shaw Andy wrote:
> > I am just going to specifically refer to this part in my capacity as
> > Head of Support at Digia.  But the support team (myself included) do
> > strive to fix bugs or provide workarounds, we have a good track
> > record in this respect.  It is as a result of customers reporting
> > bugs to us that we are able to fix some bugs sooner than it may
> > happen by going via the bug tracker at bugreports.qt-project.org.
> > This is because the support team's priorities are for the customers
> > first so we deal with what they are bringing to our attention.
> > Granted not everything is fixed, but I can assure you that it does
> > make a difference to be a customer and report things to us.
> >
> 
> I am a bit curious on the fixes by Digia for the paying customers. Do
> those fixes go to the LGPL sources? Or do they remain "privileges" of
> Digia's customers?

Where ever possible the fixes are contributed back to the qt-project, we don't put them in the commercial only release.  In some cases the fix is not sufficient enough (for one reason or another) to go into the qt-project but it is sufficient enough for the customer at least to keep the patch around so that they can continue to use it for the releases they have access to.

But generally speaking if we can contribute the patch back then we do so.

Andy