[Development] Feature freeze next Tuesday

Allan Sandfeld Jensen kde at carewolf.com
Wed Sep 9 10:17:25 CEST 2020


On Mittwoch, 9. September 2020 09:14:29 CEST Lars Knoll wrote:
> Hi Allan,
> 
> On 7 Sep 2020, at 12:59, Allan Sandfeld Jensen
> <kde at carewolf.com<mailto:kde at carewolf.com>> wrote:
 
> On Mittwoch, 26. August 2020 08:46:41 CEST Lars Knoll wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> This is just a gentle reminder that feature freeze for Qt 6 is approaching
> very quickly now. We’ve had a round of checks inside the Qt Company
> regarding how ready the teams are. All in all it looks relatively good, so
> we’ll keep the feature freeze at the 1st of September.
> 
> There are three areas that have asked for an exception to the freeze to
> finish things that are still pending:
> 
> * In QtCore, the Q*Iterables in qmetatype/qvariant
> * Across Gui/Declarative/QuickControls the input system
> * The new desktop styling for Qt Quick Controls
> * The new property system (see separate mail; most likely it won’t need an
> extension to the freeze date)
> 
> Not sure if this falls under the input system, but I had left this since
> March
 due to conflicts with other changes,
> https://codereview.qt-project.org/c/qt/qtbase/+/291214/5 
> Not sure what to do about this one. I am not convinced this is the right
> thing to do, as at least QAction is not really a key binding (you can have
> an action without a shortcut), so the inheritance looks wrong in my eyes.
 
Okay, the idea is that it _can_ be, so it is more like an interface 
inheritance.

'Allan





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