[Qt-creator] Creator stability

[Bill King]

Bringing this over here as was requested ;)


I was just criticized for criticizing the quality of creator ("on the
basis of one bug report").

I thought we were an open company, part of that is being open to
criticism when things are not working.

Creator mainline is not working. I have reports both from internal and
external users on a regular basis of either creator not building, or
creator crashing upon startup. I have pushed the externals to submit
bugreports, but, again, my experience here has been less than glowing.
Being close to the front lines of the project, sometimes this can be missed.

To fix these issues, can we implement some sort of staging/CI system
like we have for Qt?

For qml usage, bleeding edge is the only choice currently, and the
perceived quality of creator from the bleeding edgers is that
creator's... not usable at all. That is not the Qt way, and not a
perception we should be having. Creator is an excellent product, and one
I use daily, and I'd like to go back to bleeding edge, as that's where
all the cool new features are :)

-- 
Bill King, Software Engineer
Qt Development Frameworks, Nokia Pty Ltd
Brisbane Office