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

[Konstantin Tokarev]

24.01.2013, 16:58, "Jordi Pujol" <pisoengracia at gmail.com>:
> 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.

Let's consider imaginary situation when some party claims that Qt contains
copyrighted code, and points to code lines coming from your patches. Who
should be charged? Persons who submitted your patch, because git blame shows
them.

>
> 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 ?



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Regards,
Konstantin