[Interest] 5.8 Features?

[Thiago Macieira]

On terça-feira, 21 de junho de 2016 22:55:07 PDT Jason H wrote:
> I feel like the last few releases have been run by the trolls, and not the
> users of Qt. I was hoping open governance would enable the community to
> direct Qt development, but I seem to have misinterpreted what it means. I'm
> looking for what's going into 5.8.. not much listed on the releases page.

Open governance allows developers of Qt, not users of Qt, to direct new 
features. I have added features to every version since 5.0 (inclusive) and 
have already submitted a few to 5.8. Open governance did not change the means 
for non-developing users to influence the progression.

We don't maintain a list of upcoming features. Features are known to be in a 
release only when they are actually in that release. For example, I wrote 
QNetworkDatagram in time for Qt 5.6 and submitted it for that version. For 
many reasons, it was delayed and was only integrated this week, which means it 
will be in 5.8.

The changelog and new feature pages are created close to the release. We've 
just done it for 5.7. You're not going to find anything for 5.8 until sometime 
in September.

If you want to see what's already in 5.8, you have to use Git to see the log 
of changes in the dev branch that aren't in the 5.7 branch. If you want to see 
what may be coming, talk to people and check their Gerrit dashboards.

For example, right now I'm working on QDeadlineTimer (new class) and 
deprecating multiple win32-msvc20xx mkspecs with version number (one should be 
enough for all versions).

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