On Mon, 14 Oct 2024 09:15:45 +1000 Lorn Potter <lorn.pot...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Other open source projects are the > same. You might have to ping people on the mailing list, 2, 3 times, > or one of the several developer chat places like discord and irc. > Developers are often busy with their own things. Yeah but such projects are usually unmaintained (I mean they could still have developers but having no one acting as a maintainer). There were such answers on this mailing list though: On Tue Apr 9 03:29:09 CEST 2024 Chris Adams <chris.ad...@qinetic.com.au> wrote: > In my opinion, 6 months or so delay on some reviews is fairly > acceptable (there can be higher-priority items which take attention, > it's understandable). On Wed Apr 10 06:04:25 CEST 2024 Thiago Macieira <thiago.macie...@intel.com> wrote: > Don't wait months and years: you're > entitled to getting a review within one month. It sadly doesn't seem to work... On Mon, 14 Oct 2024 09:15:45 +1000 Lorn Potter <lorn.pot...@gmail.com> wrote: > It happens to me heaps, but I am partially to blame, as I am the > developer trying to get changes into a huge code base. Not every > reviewer will know a lot about the bug or code/module being fixed, as > well. Especially something like X11 code that goes way back. > > Ya just gotta keep trying. If someone disagrees with the premise you > either have to just drop it, explain things better with more detail, > or go back and work on the bug fix more. Qt sadly has reputation of having the worst (after Electron perhaps) Linux support. It had big troubles with Wayland for a long time and still has noticable troubles such as struggling with providing API fitting the Wayland way of popup positioning. It has poor xdg-desktop-portal support. Weird bugs in X11 support other toolkits don't have. The near-impossibility to convince maintainers, requirements for bureaucratic paper trails and silence in reviews don't really help on that. Qt maintainers seem to have no capacity/interest to make those improvements and don't let others to make them. Even when maintainers don't disagree, the silence itself is enough for a patch to get lost if the author needs it less than Qt needs it (i.e. has no reason to do pings for years or trying to go to mailing list). -- Development mailing list Development@qt-project.org https://lists.qt-project.org/listinfo/development
