[Interest] 5.8 Features?

[Thiago Macieira]

On quarta-feira, 22 de junho de 2016 15:39:35 PDT Jason H wrote:
> > "Open governance" means that all members of the community can raise
> > proposals and vote on them. It is also a meritocratic system (as
> > opposed to democratic), which means more weight is given to members of
> > higher rank. Put simply, rank is gained through contributions and
> > commitment to the Qt Project.
> 
> Where and when does this voting occur? I've been vocal about improving Qt on
> mobile since mobile was an option. I've been hardcore on the shortcomings
> for about 20 months. During that time, I saw 5.6 get released, 5.7 get
> released at the same time as 5.6.1, and a lot of meaningless (to me)
> modules added. And now 5.8 is only 1.5 months from 5.7? What_the_hell? I'd
> like to see Qt complete it's mobile initiative.

See the other email on the voting.

Your contribution in terms of being vocal about an issue is not new with the 
Qt Open Governance: you could have done before that. Developers are supposed 
to listen to users to figure out what to do next, especially listen to 
complaints about pain points. That doesn't mean we always do what users ask, 
though -- sometimes we take our own opinion, like was the case of 
QNetworkDatagram.

> As for contributing, the past 20 months I've been under _multiple_
> commercial licenses, one that was paying for a Desktop just to use Qt
> Charts. I think that's pretty material.

Indeed, that's another way to influence: to pay for a commercial licence and 
use your premium support as well as relationship with the commercial sales to 
request features and provide feedback.

But those are outside the governance. Those have been in place since Trolltech 
was founded in 1993.

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