[Qt-interest] Clarification on "out of scope" closed bug

[Andre Somers]

Op Wo, 19 januari, 2011 3:18 pm, schreef Thiago Macieira:
> On Wednesday, 19 de January de 2011 14:10:59 Andre Somers wrote:
>> Being honest after the fact is not much use. What I mean is: I think you
>> (not you personally, but Qt in general) should add warnings in the
>> documentation if classes are considdered end-of life, "mistakes" or for
>> some other reason won't receive bugfixes anymore or are for other
>> reasons
>> better to stay away from in new code. Better yet: that should be
>> announced
>> ahead of time, before such support actually stops. Qt decided to
>> release the code (and I remember showed it off even, I can still see the
>> cool demo's where a Grahics view item rotated to show it's backside to
>> reveal a widget-based form to edit something). That, IMHO, also means
>> supporting it.
>
> We're doing that.
>
> But you'll understand that such a communication needs to be done with
> care.
> People won't like some of the things that are in the list.

I do understand, but personally, I would *much* rather find it out by
reading the docs or some other .plans document somewhere, than by comments
on closed but unresolved bugreports. Even if the news is bad, I'd rather
have it sooner than later so I might be able to do some damage control.

Perhaps the openness surrounding the roadmap, as discussed on the DevDays
in your own Open Governance session if memory serves me well, could still
be improved here and there...

André