[Development] [Interest] Code contributions via bug reports and forum posts

[coroberti .]

Hi,
This is a very positive and long anticipated development.

Excellent!

Kind regards,
Robert


On Wed, May 16, 2018 at 12:20 PM, Tuukka Turunen <tuukka.turunen at qt.io> wrote:
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> Hi,
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> Contribution of source code is now allowed via Qt systems such as bug
> reports and forums. Traditionally all source code contributions to the Qt
> Project are governed via Contribution License Agreement (CLA), except
> possibility given to the commercial license holders to provide bug fixes and
> similar small modifications that The Qt Company has pushed into Qt. We have
> now updated the Qt Account service terms to more clearly state that source
> code can be contributed via the Qt systems. The preferred way to contribute
> source code to the Qt Project is still via the CLA, according to the
> contribution guidelines. But sometimes a user who has not accepted the CLA
> has a patch that would, for example, fix a bug in Qt. Providing such a patch
> is now also possible via the Qt systems, for example via the bug reports or
> forum posts.
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> Please check a blog post for more information:
> http://blog.qt.io/blog/2018/05/16/code-contributions-via-bug-reports-forum-posts/
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> Note that any existing source code in the systems is not covered, only items
> pushed from now on.
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> Yours,
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>                 Tuukka
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