[Development] redistributing QPA and platform style plugins

Thiago Macieira thiago.macieira at intel.com
Mon Apr 3 18:01:24 CEST 2017


On segunda-feira, 3 de abril de 2017 08:40:42 PDT Tor Arne Vestbø wrote:
> On 03/04/2017 17:35, Thiago Macieira wrote:
> >> And last but not least, does doing this have any incidence on
> >> "upstreaming", should I ever decide to submit some of those
> >> modifications?
> > 
> > The recommendation is that you think of upstreaming early. The longer it
> > takes you to upstream, the more stale your changes may be and the more
> > difficult it may become to merge them.
> 
> Related to this, making sure your changes align with the project goals
> and platform direction, and getting buy-in for your changes, increases
> the chance that upstreaming will be a smooth process.

And the best way to achieve those requirements is to not fork. Just work with 
the Qt Project.

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Thiago Macieira - thiago.macieira (AT) intel.com
  Software Architect - Intel Open Source Technology Center




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