It looks like some business case for Roland. Sending many emails with the links to the owned/associated books thru the Qt mail lists and even openly advertising them - at least two cases just recently.
Is it in line with the list policy? Kind regards, Robert Iakobashvili ............................ On Thu, Apr 1, 2021 at 4:27 PM Volker Hilsheimer <volker.hilshei...@qt.io> wrote: > > > On 1 Apr 2021, at 14:47, Roland Hughes <rol...@logikalsolutions.com> wrote: > >> PS: Roland, I was looking at your > >> https://www.theminimumyouneedtoknow.com/agile_book.html page, and judging > >> by this sentence, I think your review process is broken. You should > >> probably ask for your money back from your professional editors, or > >> something… :P > >> > >> "The author of this title has spent over 30 years in IT working on > >> multi-country corporate applications before there was an Interent, to > >> stock exchange trading floor systems, desktop applications, and even > >> multiple medical devices." > >> > > The book was professionally edited. I put the page together with far less > > thought than I put into a post on here. You think it is a run-on sentence, > > so what? > > I assume you mean “Internet” when your page says “interent”. > > > > The book still sells and I've done very little marketing. Other than the > > occasional mention when answering a question for free, none really. > > Congratulations. > > > > When the justification for letting 12 year old bugs exist in the bug > > database is: > > > > that the code was too complex or that fixing the old bug would create new > > bugs > > > > The code had just as much review before check-in as the page that you > > looked at. > > > That’s probably true; 12 years ago Qt was GPL/commercial only and not an open > source project with contributors outside of Trolltech. The Windows port was > commercial only, and we used perforce for version control. We didn’t do any > formal code reviews. > > Yes, there are bugs in Qt where a fix would break existing code that relies > on current behavior. And yes, there is code in Qt that is fragile, for > different reasons. The code I wrote 15+ years ago to support Windows XP menu > animations in Qt is probably not a shiny example of robustness. > > But most of it is pretty good, even some of mine, and it makes me proud to > have been able to contribute to Qt and to work with the incredibly talented > people in the Qt community for most of my professional career. I’m sorry that > you don’t like it. > > > Cheers, > Volker > > PS: yes, the oldest open bug in Qt is > https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/QTBUG-255, reported in 2006. > > _______________________________________________ > Interest mailing list > Interest@qt-project.org > https://lists.qt-project.org/listinfo/interest _______________________________________________ Interest mailing list Interest@qt-project.org https://lists.qt-project.org/listinfo/interest
