[Development] Feature freeze next Tuesday

[Allan Sandfeld Jensen]

On Mittwoch, 9. September 2020 10:17:25 CEST Allan Sandfeld Jensen wrote:
> 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.
> 
Though I guess I could change it to a 'has a' dependency, though I would 
prefer to still make the two APIs naming consistent.

'Allan