[Development] QCS2016 Session Notes - QUIPs for Qt

Oswald Buddenhagen oswald.buddenhagen at qt.io
Tue Nov 8 11:14:58 CET 2016


On Tue, Nov 08, 2016 at 09:11:23AM +0000, Lars Knoll wrote:
> Yes, let’s get the repo created and this whole thing off the ground. 
> 
so, anyone has a concrete proposal for a fully qualified repository
name? www/quips?

> As noted, we need a better way to document results of discussions, decisions and processes. Grepping through a mailing list archive and trying to figure out which opinion prevailed in the end is not that ;-)
> 
> Cheers,
> Lars
> 
> On 08/11/16 09:41, "Development on behalf of Edward Welbourne" <development-bounces+lars.knoll=qt.io at qt-project.org on behalf of edward.welbourne at qt.io> wrote:
> 
>     Louai Al-Khanji said:
>     > this is not a bureaucratization process.
>     
>     It is about having a way to document the final conclusions of
>     discussions we already have.  In the process, it shall also force us to
>     be explicit and leave fewer dangling ambiguities, where different
>     parties have subtly different interpretations, because the final QUIP
>     shall be one document, rather than a scattered mess of correspondence
>     spread across several months of a mailing list archive, with references
>     back to earlier discussions relating to similar topics.  Newcomers shall
>     only have one place to look to get up to speed.
>     
>     (I should note, though, that this *is* a bureaucratization process; it's
>     just that it's *the good kind* - yes, those do exist.  Bureaucracy may
>     have spawned some heinous and easily-noticed messes; but it's actually a
>     technology - an information technology, no less - that helped
>     revolutionise the way the world was run (roughly a quarter millennium
>     ago) and usher in the modern era.)
>     
>     I'll third the motion that we should start a repo for QUIPs,
>     
>     	Eddy.
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