[Development] The future of smart pointers in Qt API

[Vitaly Fanaskov]

Yes, I see your point. The thing is that we need to narrow this 
discussion down and make a decision. Creating something like a wiki page 
would take a long time, I'm afraid. I think that there is should be a 
balance between collecting all possible opinions and trying to 
understand what contributors tend to.

When I was creating the summary, I took into account all opinions and 
arguments of participants. I had to filter out some alternatives or 
suggestions and less sensible and less relevant things. Not doing this 
leads to long and counter-productive discussions.

On 2/12/20 3:42 PM, Alberto Mardegan wrote:
> On 12/02/20 15:20, Vitaly Fanaskov wrote:
>>> AFAIK, we don't have a procedure to make project-level decisions by majority vote.
>> True. We're discussing now. The goal here is to take people opinions and
>> arguments into account before making a decision.
> The problem I see, is that in your summary you are only reporting those
> options that have had more consensus (or at least, according to the way
> you perceived the discussion going); but in doing so, you are already
> filtering out the alternatives, and therefore paving the road for a
> decision.
>
> Maybe what we should do is to collect all the different proposals and
> let people fill them with pros and cons (wiki style) and then you can
> proceed with a decision?
> In this way, you'd also avoid people repeating the same positions over
> and over the place.
>
> (not that I have a positive experience with the wiki approach either;
> but at least you are sure that all people taking the decision will be
> aware of all the points for and against every alternative).
>
> Ciao,
>    Alberto
>
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Best Regards,

Fanaskov Vitaly
Senior Software Engineer

The Qt Company / Qt Quick and Widgets Team