[Development] Qt 5.2 Testing (System tray)

Knoll Lars Lars.Knoll at digia.com
Mon Oct 14 21:51:49 CEST 2013


That's basically how it looks. I'm happy to accept all patches that are
required upstream (after review of course), but the authors (ie.
Canonical) will have to submit them here.

Cheers,
Lars

On 10/14/13 9:44 PM, "Hausmann Simon" <Simon.Hausmann at digia.com> wrote:

>
>I agree very much with what Thiago said. Also note that the project can't
>_take_ patches, the legal framework requires the author to contribute
>them explicitly (and accepting the cla on the way).
>
>
>Thankfully there are canonical folks around in the Qt project submitting
>good stuff in other places.
>
>
>Simon 
>
>
>
>Fra: Thiago Macieira
>Sendt: 21:30 mandag 14. oktober 2013
>Til: development at qt-project.org
>Emne: Re: [Development] Qt 5.2 Testing (System tray)
>
>
>
>
>On segunda-feira, 14 de outubro de 2013 19:40:15, Jiergir Ogoerg wrote:
>> Thanks, if so, case closed, the Ubuntu users will have to wait for
>> Canonical's patches and the users testing the versions of Qt from Qt's
>> website are likely to file false bugs in the future, so I'd vouch for
>> including Canonical's patches into upstream Qt to avoid this issue and
>> possible future false bug reports.
>> But since Canonical is taking a certain stance on certain issues
>>(including
>> Mir) I understand why Canonical's patches might not be welcome upstream.
>
>If the patches are technically correct and don't break the rest of the
>platforms, I don't see why we shouldn't accept them upstream.
>
>If the patch is large, then the patch must come with a promise of
>maintenance 
>as well.
>
>We would require the same of any other port or large modification. In
>fact, we 
>do require that of our QNX/BB10 friends and it's being required of the
>Android 
>and iOS ports too.
>-- 
>Thiago Macieira - thiago.macieira (AT) intel.com
>  Software Architect - Intel Open Source Technology Center
>
>
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