[Interest] 5.8 Features?

[Tuukka Turunen]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Interest [mailto:interest-bounces+tuukka.turunen=qt.io at qt-
> project.org] On Behalf Of Michael R Nelson
> Sent: keskiviikkona 22. kesäkuuta 2016 19.11
> To: interest at qt-project.org
> Subject: Re: [Interest] 5.8 Features?
> 
> I have to say I completely agree with Jason's sentiment here. I'm a
> commercial customer since early Qt 5.0. I bought with the belief mobile
> support would continue to grow, and not require me to step into native
> platform coding, nor require me to build custom versions of Qt to get around
> shortcomings that never get fixed.
> 

Hi,

Perhaps the pace has been slower than you wanted, or maybe the developed items different, but the mobile support of Qt has developed steadily with each release. Not only are we keeping pace with the mobile developments supporting new platform versions as they are available, but there has also been steady increase of the API parity and maturity. One of the big investments benefiting mobile has been to support WinRT / Windows 10, which of course does not benefit those who are only interested in iOS or Android. Qt is well committed in keeping and improving the position as the leading cross-platform toolkit across desktop-mobile-embedded. 

Yours,

	Tuukka


> Mike
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Interest [mailto:interest-bounces+mnelson=sutron.com at qt-
> project.org] On Behalf Of Jason H
> Sent: Wednesday, June 22, 2016 9:40 AM
> To: Sze Howe Koh <szehowe.koh at gmail.com>
> Cc: interest at qt-project.org
> Subject: Re: [Interest] 5.8 Features?
> 
> 
> > Subject: Re: [Interest] 5.8 Features?
> >
> > On 22 June 2016 at 09:34, Thiago Macieira <thiago.macieira at intel.com>
> wrote:
> > >
> > > 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.
> >
> > See https://wiki.qt.io/The_Qt_Governance_Model
> >
> > "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.
> 
> 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.
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