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

[Thiago Macieira]

On Wednesday, 19 de January de 2011 15:41:52 Andre Somers wrote:
> 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.

The communication is coming and will be in the docs too.

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