[Development] API review and API quality

Oswald Buddenhagen oswald.buddenhagen at theqtcompany.com
Mon Jan 18 17:41:38 CET 2016


On Mon, Jan 18, 2016 at 03:48:54PM +0100, Andreas Hartmetz wrote:
> Gerrit is somehow much more detail-oriented, and criticizing "too 
> subjective" stuff is frowned upon.
>
anyone who complains about such aspects of a review clearly didn't quite
get https://wiki.qt.io/Qt_Contribution_Guidelines -

"Our API Design Principles aim for perfection."

it's also point 1.2 of https://wiki.qt.io/Commit_Policy

> Now what?
> 
we actually already decided some months ago that TQtC sets up an api
review task force at pre-release time.
we've yet to see how that will work out in practice in the longer run.



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