[Interest] What don't you like about Qt?

[Tim O'Neil]

I can tell you all from direct experience Agile is not a one-size-fits-all
tool. Its a tool, best used in mid-sized to larger organizations trying to
build software. Its not at all appropriate for smaller shops. Kanban works
just fine in those.

On Tue, Oct 4, 2016 at 8:02 AM, Ronan Jouchet <
ronan.jouchet at cadensimaging.com> wrote:

> On 2016-10-04 10:28, Bob Hood wrote:
>
>> Like Spiral from whence it sprung, I think Agile works wonderfully
>> in certain project profiles.  However, not everybody drinks the
>> all-Agile-all-the-time Kool-Aid®.  Contrary to popular religion,
>> Agile is not the savior of the industry. It's another tool in the
>> toolbox, not a replacement for all the other tools, and savvy project
>> managers still apply the development methodology (Spiral, Agile,
>> Waterfall, etc.) or hybrid -- e.g., Waterfall mixed with Agile
>> elements -- that makes the most sense for the success of a project.
>>
>> Just applying full Agile without considering the characteristics of
>> the project and its intended result is absolutely not a guarantee of
>>  success.
>>
>
> Absolutely. But you're fighting a strawman; Jason was in no way trying
> to spread meaningless Agile verbiage / kool-aid, he also explained in
> detail what he meant by it. Quoting him, emphasis mine:
>
> On 2016-10-04 10:03, Jason H wrote:
>
>> My Agile team does two week sprints so we can reorder priorities
>> twice a month. **The Qt community has no say (AFAIK) in determining
>> the priority status, or what is worked on when**. The worst issue I
>> know of as an example of this is the Canvas bug on iOS (
>> https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/QTBUG-37095 ). It's been in there
>> for 2.5 _years_, 17 votes and 36 watchers. Which in my experience is
>> pretty damn high, though there are older and higher ones. Use the
>> search string "votes >= 17 AND status != Closed and type = Bug" to
>> get a list of that and it's brethren.
>>
>> Which brings up the question, **why isn't the Qt staff using a
>> similar search to prioritize their backlog on a regular basis?**
>>
>> I think the **incorporation of a regular search of that nature**
>> would immensely improve the product. I don't think there is any
>> **transparency in the selected for fix criteria** ?
>>
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