[Development] QtWayland Compositor and marketplace

[Pier Luigi Fiorini]

Il giorno gio 16 lug 2020 alle ore 10:11 Shawn Rutledge <
shawn.rutledge at qt.io> ha scritto:

>
> > On 2020 Jul 6, at 18:57, Pier Luigi Fiorini <pierluigi.fiorini at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> >
> > Hi,
> >
> > I noticed that some modules are going into the marketplace, for example
> Qt Multimedia.
> > Would you consider doing so for QtWayland Compositor?
> >
> > The compositor API would surely benefit from a faster release cycle.
> >
> > Getting new protocols and updates sooner instead of every 6 months would
> be great.
> >
> > Thoughts?
>
> I’m dubious about whether the release cycle would really be faster that
> way.  Continuing to include it in the release every 6 months probably adds
> more motivation to keep fixing things regularly, rather than slowing it
> down.
>
> Otherwise, do you have examples of ongoing changes that really shouldn’t
> wait until the next release?
>
> It’s currently possible to build from git.  (And I hope it remains that
> way.)  “Releases” are artificial flag days, from one side; in practice,
> Linux distros tend to wait for them, but it doesn’t have to be that way.
>
> Maybe you want to add an extra level of release numbering, and put those
> intermediate releases into Marketplace, just to have the psychological
> effect of the existence of more “releases”, and update distro packages more
> often from there?  I.e. after 5.15.1 comes 5.15.1.1, 5.15.1.2, etc.  But
> then I’d predict that it will not be so many after all, as long as
> generating releases takes human time.
>

The main problem is that sometimes you wait even 12 months (or more) before
a release hit the end users.
6 months of release cycle + the time needed by distros to pick up a new Qt
version.

Since updating Qt is not an easy task and affects so many users, some
distros do not update right away and you can't expect to use a new protocol
implementation 12/14 months after you made that change.

-- 
https://liri.io
An OS and apps built with modern design and features
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <http://lists.qt-project.org/pipermail/development/attachments/20200724/cb776663/attachment.html>