[PySide] Weekly Update 22.03.2018

[Cristián Maureira-Fredes]

Hello,

Just a brief update on the status of the project:

The release process is starting:
  - Defining the testing process (including RTA)
  - Initial setup proposal Python 3.6 (Windows 10, Linux, macOS), Python 2.7 (Linux, macOS)
  - Testing information to be collected and publicly available on the wiki

Official Documentation:
  - A couple of qdoc bugs are delaying the first snapshots
  - There is a lot of effort on the tutorials that the documentation will include.
  - There is work on including non-class documentation to the official snapshot.

Snapshot Testing:
  - The test of the first set of wheels was done, and there are a few issues
    still being discussed, mainly related to WebEngine

Bug fixing and improvements:
 - PYSIDE-585 was fixed, but a deep study of the situation is required, mainly related to refcounting.
 - PYSIDE-595 first heap type prototype under review proving that concept works
 - PYSIDE-560 depends on PYSIDE-595 and it will not take long to finish after 595 is done.
 - Minor bugs, and a couple of cherry-pick changes from 5.9 to 5.6
 - enum support improved (dealing with scoped enums and enum values)
 - There is effort on solving memory leaks.

Continuous Integration:
 - A few issues on Coin are putting on hold the official wheels generation process
 - Discussion about manylinux support:
    - At the moment manylinux will not be included as an official release.
    - To support it we will need to go outside the scope of Qt releases.
 - List of wheels for the release:
    - Windows 10, Linux, macOS including Python 2.7 and 3.6

You can find more information from the last meetings on:
http://wiki.qt.io/PySide2_Development_Notes

Cheers


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Cristián Maureira-Fredes
Software Engineer

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