[Interest] Contributing to Qt : when you're a spare contributor

[Frank Hemer]

On Thursday 24 January 2013 13:57:46 Jordi Pujol wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> First of all, I'm not a native english speaker/writer so, my apologies
> if it seems I'm ranting ( I can state I'm not ). It's only something
> stumblin in my mind that I want to share with you.
> 
> Today I've read an email in this list that links to this page :
> 
> http://sprogram.com.ua/en/articles/qt-connect-to-oracle-as-sysdba
> 
> This code seems to me a good candidate to add to Qt's Dabatase module. A
> simple and effective way to achieve its goal.
> 
> Some time ago I did a similar request ( to merge some lines of code to
> enable SQLite extension load ) and only Thiago kindly answered me with
> another question. No other answer. :-(
> 
> I'm having a huge workload and didn't have the time to contrib it to Qt
> 5.1 ( I have another little contribution for widgets, even being OK,
> that could not be accepted in time for Qt 5.0, and I don't know if I
> have to resubmit it or it will be cherry-picked in a near future, but
> that's another war... ).
> 
> I accept that my contribution are quite small, but a lot of little
> contributions make a bigger one ! And the initial gap to contribute
> makes many of us think twice before spending the time to push our
> changes to Qt project.
> 
> I suspect that I'm not the only one in this situation : people that uses
> Qt and have good knowledge of it and with good ideas/modifications that
> can benefit all the project. And we want to contribute it !
> 
> My question to the community is : it's worth the effort to contribute,
> if you're a "little one" like me ? I have serious doubts...
> 
> I have to spend a lot of time to remember how the submit process goes.
> Yes, if you contribute once or twice in a year you forgot the
> not-so-simple commands for gerrit ;-)
> 
> It's possible to, simplify that process ? I have no problem to sign a
> disclaimer like "I wrote that code, but I give all the rights to i.e.
> digia/Kdab/<write_here_your_company>" and then send my patches to
> someone in that company that evaluates them and pushes it to gerrit in
> behalf of me.
> 
> I have No need for glory, I only want Qt become better and contribute
> with my 2 cents. It's possible to simply cede my code to someone that
> takes care of submit ?

Please start a new thread when you start a new topic ...

But yes, +1
Frank