[Interest] Bounties?

[Thiago Macieira]

On Thursday 12 March 2015 08:56:08 Thiago Macieira wrote:
> On Thursday 12 March 2015 09:10:40 Bernhard wrote:
> > Well I do not use QML. Actually am writing widget based applications only.
> > Most of my issues are in conventional parts of Qt like building the
> > framework, (MySQL) database support, widgets, meta type system, missing
> > stuff (global shortcuts etc.)... It seems to me that base features are
> > neglected a bit for the benefit of "super-fancy" features like QML and
> > mobile support. As a matter of fact it simply doesn't pay out to report
> > most issues because "Somewhat important" and "Low" issues are pretty much
> > guaranteed never to be fixed.
> 
> As QtCore maintainer, I resent that. I fix almost every real bug in QtCore
> almost immediately.
> 
> I've submitted three dozen commits to QtNetwork for Qt 5.5/5.6 improving a
> lot of things and even adding new features.
> 
> I've rewritten the QtDBus internals (commit count around 20 now) and they
> should land in 5.5.
> 
> Maybe you don't see those improvements because they aren't UI. Fancy, shiny
> stuff are visible (pun intended) and also very widely noticed in PR
> communications. No one wants to know about the plumbing updates.

Proof:

$ git rev-list origin/5.4..origin/5.5 -- src/corelib src/network src/dbus 
src/sql src/xml | wc -l
435

The total of qtbase + qtdeclarative is 1394 commits. So the non-UI parts make 
up 31% of total changes between 5.4 and 5.5 right now.

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Thiago Macieira - thiago.macieira (AT) intel.com
  Software Architect - Intel Open Source Technology Center