[Development] Qt 5 for Android developer mailing list

[Laszlo Papp]

On Tue, Jan 8, 2013 at 3:26 PM, Paul Olav Tvete <paul.tvete at digia.com>wrote:

> On Tuesday 8 January 2013 15:13:38 Laszlo Papp wrote:
>
> >  We do not have separate lists for Mac, QNX, Windows, Linux, Harmattan,
> >  Symbian and so forth so far, so I am wondering: what exactly would not
> fit
> >  the existing mailing lists?
>
> This is a new project, and we need a convenient way to communicate inside
> that
> project. Using the development mailing list is not an option for us:
> there's
> way too much activity here. The options are 1) discuss openly in a
> dedicated
> list where everybody who's interested can see what's happening,


...can see _easily_...

I do not think I would have ever received any feedback from Thiago on a
harmattan-devel at qt-project.org mailing list which I would have regretted as
I got quite useful feedback back then about build issues and the like.
Surely, you will regret not getting feedback from such people who would
otherwise read this list.


> or 2) just
> send the mails directly to the active developers.
>

3) Use a mailing list like for QtCore, QtGui, and what not android patches
for instance what others also see like QtCore sub(module) maintainers
without subscribing separately for each platform?


> We really want to be open and transparent about what happens, but not
> everybody has the time to check this list several times a day, so we would
> be
> forced to communicate somewhere else if we don't get a dedicated list.
>

IMO, you should be following the development anyway to be somewhat in sync
with the ongoing changes that might be relevant for the Android development.


>
> Edit: and as Maurice says, we can shut down the list when it's no longer
> useful.
>

I believe, that is the worst situation because even if you manage to
archive the emails, it brings additional burden and confusion to new or
recomers which cannot happen otherwise (either with development@ or not
shut down mailing list). Accumulating closed mailing lists over here is
just weird to me: http://lists.qt-project.org/mailman/listinfo

I personally expected that you need this list for something permanent that
is out of the scope for the existing mailing lists, like development@,
qt-components@, and so forth. I still did not get any examples what
development cannot happen in public with other platform developers...

Laszlo
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