[Qt-creator] Qt Creator Community

[Tobias Hunger]

On 05.03.2010 12:10, ext Peter Kümmel wrote:
> As Qt Creater beeing 'only' a plugin-collection,
> is there a overview where all Nokia and 3rd-party
> plugins are listet and described?

We started just that in the qt developer network wiki:
http://developer.qt.nokia.com/wiki/Qt_Creator_Plug-in_Gallery

We put all the plugins there that we know about. Please add any you are 
working on in secret:-) Feel free to update any entry where you can 
provide more information that the little that is there. Especially 
contact information would be highly appreciated! I think we need to 
communicate better with 3rd party plugin developers. Currently we hardly 
ever consider external plugins when redoing interfaces, mostly since we 
don't know whom to ask.

> Also, is there a wiki which could be used as entry point
> for starting developing plugins, with documentations,
> example plugins, links to other howtos, and so on?

We are working on improving the documentation shipped with creator. 
There is some community help with that, too (see 
http://qt.gitorious.org/qt-creator/qt-creator/merge_requests/159).

Please feel free to ask for clarification on the documentation here (and 
to improve it further through your own merge requests). I think this 
mailing list is the best place to discuss your ideas for plugins and 
requirements you have, etc.

> When the intension of Qt Creator is to also create a
> community around the creater like there is around Eclipse
> then Nokia should spend some resources to evangelize
> and support such a community.	

My impression is that this is slowly starting: You can not really ask 
people to jump in and provide plugins before a certain point is reached 
when you are confident that - at least - the mayor APIs are going to 
stay stable. I think we are getting close to that point now.

Best Regards,
Tobias

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Tobias Hunger
Software Engineer
Nokia, Qt Development Frameworks

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