[Qbs] Future of Qbs

[NIkolai Marchenko]

I just want to point something out, something that's not that visible on
the blog post that it appeared at.

In this post: http://blog.qt.io/blog/2017/12/07/qbs-1-10-released/ just a
little less than a year ago,
qbs was touted as the new Qt build tool. This isn't speculation, these are
direct words from TQtC employee.

Essentially: TQtC encouraged their customers to migrate, then, less than a
year later,
they deprecate it on dubious grounds essentially making this earlier post a
lie.

I have to ask: how is this helping Qt's business strategy? You've
essentially wasted hour upon hours of your customers time
and ignored it all at the drop of a hat. This is a direct breach of trust
that potentially has severe financial consequences.

On Wed, Oct 31, 2018 at 11:16 PM Jochen Becher <jochen_becher at gmx.de> wrote:

>
> Hello,
>
> the company I am working for was an early adopter of Qbs. We migrated
> over hundred projects and components with several million lines of C++
> source code to it. Several teams are working with Qbs on a daily basis.
> We are mostly satisfied with the current release and we will not move
> away from this great build system.
>
> We are really disappointed by TQC deprecating Qbs. How much can we
> trust that the same will not happen with QtCreator or some Qt modules
> or platform support?
>
> But we will moderately invest into Qbs' future at least by improving
> the integration into QtCreator and keeping Qbs on the level we need.
>
> Regards,
>
> Jochen 'gilead' Becher
>
> Author of QtCreator's ModelEditor plugin
>
> Head of 30 software developers who are happily use Qbs
>
>
>
> Am Mittwoch, den 31.10.2018, 06:51 +0100 schrieb Richard Weickelt:
> > Dear all,
> >
> > on the Qt developer mailing list, Lars Knoll recently announced:
> >
> > > We have been developing Qbs over the last years, and as such are
> > > committed to it for some more time. We are planning on another
> > > feature
> > > release in the first quarter of next year and will support it in Qt
> > > Creator for at least another year. Qbs is open source and if
> > > someone
> > > wants to take over and develop it further let us know as well. I’d
> > > also
> > > like to use this place to thank Christian and Jörg for all their
> > > great
> > > work on Qbs  (and of course also anybody else who contributed to
> > > it).
> >
> > Qbs is open source but the largest part of development has always
> > been
> > shouldered by The Qt Company and the decision processes have never
> > been open
> > and transparent.
> >
> > It would be great if the TQtC could clarify what is planned for the
> > next
> > feature release and why. I would be glad if the TQtC would spend the
> > remaining resources on transitioning the Qbs project into a community
> > ownership. I have no experience how a successful transition could
> > look like.
> > Therefore I am asking for role models.
> >
> > What I can think of, but I might be wrong: TQtC maintainers, please
> > communicate upfront what you are going to do, how and why so that
> > others can
> > learn. Some questions, I think, we should clarify on the mailing
> > list:
> >
> > - Can we define milestones for a successful transition and clarify
> > what
> >   TQtC is willing to invest?
> > - There were some companies using Qbs for their own projects [1]. Can
> > we get
> >   committment from those?
> > - Can we keep using TQtC infrastructure, domain wtc.?
> > - How does the release process of Qbs work?
> > - Are there parts in the codebase that make maintenance difficult and
> >   that could be simplified? Maybe parts duplicating Qt code that
> > should
> >   be rebased onto Vanilla Qt?
> >
> > Thank You
> > Richard Weickelt
> >
> >
> > [1]
> >
>
> https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1CwXx2F1zuATYY3GGOTkFgDB9jwMPghf6az_RVOnskfk/edit#gid=0
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