[Qt-creator] How to get your favourite feature into Qt Creator

[Daniel Molkentin]

Hi,

I see rising frustration about the lack of subjectively pressing 
features. This is understandable. However, let us try to find a positive 
approach to solve the issues.

Let me start out by explaining our view: In spite of "being Nokia" (more 
precisely: being part of it), a seemingly huge company, our team does 
not have infinite resources to spend on this project. While we gladly 
pick up feedback in an unbeaurocratic way if possible, there is a limit 
to what we can do in this respect, since we have to commit to our roadmap.

This does, however, not mean that your features must remain
unimplemented. You can always contribute, as numerous people have
already done. And if you feel like you have any obstacles in your way
while developing on Qt Creator, like a lack of class documentation
(which probably is one of the most pressing problems right now for
external contributions) or understanding general design principles,
please talk about it.

If you have a joint interest in a particular feature with other people
on this list, please try and develop it together. Gitorious has awesome
team functionality:

http://blog.gitorious.org/2009/05/09/weve-made-a-few-changes/

Enabling contributions from _everyone_ is one of the foremost reasons
why Creator is Open Source instead of just closed-source Freeware:
Giving you the power to get involved, no matter what our internal agenda
looks like. So please make use of it. We will happily assist with any
serious effort into either improving documentation or getting started
with implementing your desired functionality into Qt Creator. If you 
have any questions, please follow up on this mail.

Cheers,
   Daniel

PS: While this mail is a follow-up to many other threads revolving
around feature requests, lets not discuss specific requests here, unless
you need help setting up an effort.


-- 
Daniel Molkentin, Software Engineer,
Nokia, Qt Development Frameworks
Rudower Chaussee 13, DE-12489 Berlin
website: http://qt.nokia.com