[Development] Auto-assignment in JIRA

2016-02-25 Thread Shaw Andy
I was creating another bug report earlier today in JIRA and I noticed that it was assigning to someone who didn't seem to be right for the component at all since I don't believe they are the maintainer for it and I recalled that this is not the first time I've noticed that the auto-assigner is c

Re: [Development] Please do not remove QtWebkit from 5.6 official binaries

2015-12-04 Thread Shaw Andy
this is not happening then please report it as it should be handled correctly in that instance. Andy From: Edward Sutton [mailto:edward.sut...@subsite.com] Sent: 4. desember 2015 15:07 To: Mark De Wit Cc: Shaw Andy; development@qt-project.org Subject: Re: [Development] Please do not remove

Re: [Development] Please do not remove QtWebkit from 5.6 official binaries

2015-12-03 Thread Shaw Andy
There is QPdfWriter at least which is a paint device, so you could use that for generating PDFs as that is available iOS from what I can see. Andy From: Development [mailto:development-boun...@qt-project.org] On Behalf Of Edward Sutton Sent: 3. desember 2015 15:09 To: Mark De Wit Cc: developmen

Re: [Development] [Cobham] QT Bug 43454

2015-10-05 Thread Shaw Andy
I'm unable to do anything more about the issue at least, I was able to pinpoint the cause but I don't know how to fix it correctly so it is certainly out of my hands. I'd be happy to help out however I can to getting this fixed though. Regards, Andy From: development-bounces+andy.shaw=theqtcomp

Re: [Development] QString behavior change

2015-08-12 Thread Shaw Andy
> > > What are the chances that such a change can be accepted ? (i mean, i can > > > submit such a patch, but that would mean breaking a *lot* of code). > > > > QOptional does not exist yet and for very good reasons. > > > > QVariant is already in use, so I don't think you'd be sending a patch to u

Re: [Development] Removing win32-msvc2005 for 5.5?

2014-11-24 Thread Shaw Andy
> As the subject says, ok to do it? > > Note that this does *NOT* apply to wince60*-msvc2005 mkspecs. > > If there are no objections, we'll do it in one week. I think it is certainly safe to remove it, it hasn't been supported in a long time and I doubt it even works. Andy

Re: [Development] Qt::WA_PaintOnScreen Changes

2014-08-14 Thread Shaw Andy
> > I am porting an application to Qt5/KF5 and was surprised to see the > > main widget of the application was showing all black. There are > > screenshots of the original version and the buggy version[1] online. I > > removed > > > > setAttribute( Qt::WA_PaintOnScreen, true ); > > > > on that widg

Re: [Development] configure -developer-build --prefix=$PWD/qtbase

2014-03-27 Thread Shaw Andy
> Em qua 26 mar 2014, às 08:21:20, Alan Ezust escreveu: > > Does anyone understand what the difference is between a qt that is > > configured like this: ./configure -developer-build versus a Qt that is > > configured like this: configure -developer-build --prefix=$PWD/qtbase > > > > according to

Re: [Development] Problems pushing changes to Gerrit

2014-03-17 Thread Shaw Andy
> Gerrit seems to reject some of my changes with this error: > > $ git push ssh://mandri...@codereview.qt-project.org/qt/qt HEAD:refs/for/4.8 > error: error: invalid protocol: wanted 'old new ref' > fatal: internal server error > fatal: The remote end hung up unexpectedly > Counting obje

Re: [Development] Harmonizing the Qt 5.x Documentation

2014-03-11 Thread Shaw Andy
> Em ter 11 mar 2014, às 17:17:46, Andre Somers escreveu: > > I seriously don't see the benefit of this "harmonization". When I look > > at the docs for a class, I often just look for method names that seem to > > do what I need. That usually works very with Qt. Now, I will need to go > > check for

Re: [Development] CI Broken for 4.8

2014-03-06 Thread Shaw Andy
I was informed earlier in the week that it was known and being investigated, there was a problem with the Mac OS X 10.6 machine but I was also under the impression that it would be fixed already by now so I don't know what is happening with it at the moment. Andy From: development-bounces+andy

Re: [Development] Missing documentation

2014-02-20 Thread Shaw Andy
> The following functions/types need documenting. (This list excludes > constructors, destructors, and operators). Could those who are [snip] How was this list created? Because it seems that although some are actually missing it also contains ones that aren't, e.g. QSqlTableModel::record(). And

Re: [Development] Question about deferred delete handling in sendPostedEvents

2014-02-17 Thread Shaw Andy
> > I was looking at a problem regarding deferred deletes causing a crash inside > > nested loops and it was pointed out that in > > QCoreApplication::setPostedEvents() there is some code there that > > determines whether it is safe to delete the object or not. From my > > understanding it will onl

[Development] Question about deferred delete handling in sendPostedEvents

2014-02-17 Thread Shaw Andy
Hi, I was looking at a problem regarding deferred deletes causing a crash inside nested loops and it was pointed out that in QCoreApplication::setPostedEvents() there is some code there that determines whether it is safe to delete the object or not. From my understanding it will only delete an

Re: [Development] Plans for printing in 5.3 onwards

2014-02-12 Thread Shaw Andy
> * Keep the patches switching to the new platform plugin code in reserve to > either switch for 5.3 if testing proves the plugin is stable enough, or more > likely to use in 5.4 if not. I like this idea at least, because this enables the reviews to keep going and we can keep testing until we are

Re: [Development] Plans for printing in 5.3 onwards

2014-02-10 Thread Shaw Andy
> > >I’ve now gone through all changes. The set looks pretty good overall, and > > >testing on Linux showed no regressions compared to 5.2. > > > > One correction here: The paperRect as shown in the preview of the dialogs > > manual test shows some slightly different results, that look like a > > r

Re: [Development] Plans for printing in 5.3 onwards

2014-02-05 Thread Shaw Andy
> >I’ve now gone through all changes. The set looks pretty good overall, and > >testing on Linux showed no regressions compared to 5.2. > > One correction here: The paperRect as shown in the preview of the dialogs > manual test shows some slightly different results, that look like a > rounding iss

Re: [Development] Dropping XP?

2013-12-10 Thread Shaw Andy
> FWIW, Browser stats fun: > Bar chart last 30 days: > http://gs.statcounter.com/#os-ww-monthly-201312-201312-bar > (Windows XP still has 18.52%) > > Trend chart: > http://gs.statcounter.com/#os-ww-monthly-200808-201311 > Of course - it's declining. The decline seems actually to flatten out. > >

Re: [Development] Qt 5.2 header diff: QtWidgets

2013-11-05 Thread Shaw Andy
IIRC it wasn't even compiled into the QtWidgets library, although the documentation and everything existed, those symbols were never in Qt. Morten can say 100% at least but that is my understanding and recollection at least. Andy From: development-bounces+andy.shaw=digia@qt-project.org [ma

Re: [Development] Pending Jira changes

2013-08-23 Thread Shaw Andy
> I looked into the desired workflow changes for Jira (as discussed on this > list) > and am doing some general cleanups which I would like to bring up at this > point. The more invasive bulk changes will happen on Monday while others > have already happened. Please note that this may temporarily

Re: [Development] Builds failing due to android host

2013-05-22 Thread Shaw Andy
generally more safer time. As such now the merge from stable to release as to wait because of the CI trouble, which puts more pressure on the actual schedule. Andy From: Sarajärvi Tony Sent: 22. mai 2013 11:45 To: Shaw Andy; development@qt-project.org Subject: RE: Builds failing due to android host

Re: [Development] Builds failing due to android host

2013-05-22 Thread Shaw Andy
That doesn't make it a valid thing to still do, testing or not. I am not sure what others think but do we want to still do upgrades to things on CI this late into a release process? Andy From: Sarajärvi Tony Sent: 22. mai 2013 10:54 To: Shaw Andy; development@qt-project.org Subject: RE: B

Re: [Development] Builds failing due to android host

2013-05-22 Thread Shaw Andy
Maybe I missed something, but why are upgrades like this being done in the middle of a release cycle? With Qt 5.1 final due in not too long then shouldn't these kind of upgrades wait until after the final release in order to avoid this sort of thing being a problem for the release? Andy From:

Re: [Development] Question about the missing projects in qt-solutions

2013-04-24 Thread Shaw Andy
I know the background for this pretty well since I was involved with the original transfer of the solution code from TT to Nokia. Basically the code was not transferred to Digia at all and it was not initially made publically available either when the code was released under the BSD license when

Re: [Development] Fixing file dialog performance on Windows

2013-03-20 Thread Shaw Andy
> The file dialog takes up to 30 seconds to be usable if we're listing > files on a USB or remote share with 10k files. > > > The bottlenecks are QFileIconProvider::icon(const QFileInfo &info) and > QFileInfo::isSymLink(). > > > I solved the icon problem by looking them up in the registry, by

Re: [Development] Spring-cleaning the Gerrit dashboards, again

2013-03-20 Thread Shaw Andy
> On Wed, Mar 20, 2013 at 11:31:17AM -0700, Thiago Macieira wrote: > > Can we please agree on cleaning the dashboards up? Or, if we've > > agreed, can we do it? > > > i think there was "consensus" to do it. > however, it depends on > https://bugreports.qt-project.org/browse/QTQAINFRA-598 to find >

Re: [Development] Starting preparations for Qt 5.1

2013-03-18 Thread Shaw Andy
> Making of Qt 5.1 minor release will soon start: > > - Plan is to move 'dev' into 'stable' branch on March 19th. > > - After March 19th any changes that are required to get in for 5.1 > need to be pushed into 'stable' branch. So if your needed changes don't > make it today, > please wait aft

Re: [Development] [QA] Suggestion -- Bug Reports' Assignment

2013-03-12 Thread Shaw Andy
I would expect that the workflow is that if a report is set to be "In progress" then this is the indication that someone is actually working on the report, if we start using the assigner for this indication then it sounds like it will complicate matters even further. Also, if a P1 is created and

Re: [Development] Setting the priority of bug reports created the Qt Support team

2013-02-24 Thread Shaw Andy
> Before the transition to Qt being developed in the open via open governance, > the Qt Support team back in Trolltech and later Nokia, would prioritize the > bugs that were created, or at least handled, by them. Typically these would > be bugs that were brought to our attention by commercial custo

Re: [Development] Preparing Qt 5.0.2 release

2013-02-22 Thread Shaw Andy
> Merge from stable to release branch is now done. > Changes that are intended to get in for Qt 5.0.2 need to be pushed into > release branch. Now that the merge has done, doesn't this in effect mean that stable is now in reality Qt 5.1.0 based as dev will be merged to stable on 15th March? If th

Re: [Development] Setting the priority of bug reports created the Qt Support team

2013-02-15 Thread Shaw Andy
[snip] > > What I would like to suggest that we do now is bring back this practice, so > that the Qt Support team will set a priority on the bugs that it creates or > handles, so that it makes things easier for the maintainers to actually see > what issues are potentially a higher priority than th

[Development] Setting the priority of bug reports created the Qt Support team

2013-02-15 Thread Shaw Andy
Hi, Before the transition to Qt being developed in the open via open governance, the Qt Support team back in Trolltech and later Nokia, would prioritize the bugs that were created, or at least handled, by them. Typically these would be bugs that were brought to our attention by commercial custo

Re: [Development] Qt 5.1 feature set and freeze date

2013-02-13 Thread Shaw Andy
[snip] > * Friday 15. March: Feature freeze. Merge from dev to stable. What will happen to Qt 5.0.x at this point, does it mean we do not plan to do any further 5.0.x releases after Qt 5.1.0 is out in April? Or will we have a 5.0 branch for the changes that simply have to be done in 5.0.x, for

Re: [Development] Closing Jira Bugs

2013-01-30 Thread Shaw Andy
> Op 30-1-2013 19:34, Robin Burchell schreef: > > On Wed, Jan 30, 2013 at 7:05 PM, Sergio Ahumada > > wrote: > >> How many changes do you need to close a jira task ? one, two, more, who > >> knows ? > > The person submitting the change. > > > > The way I've seen this done various other places is t

Re: [Development] abandoning stale changes on gerrit

2013-01-29 Thread Shaw Andy
> 5.0 is out and the 5.1 feature freeze isn't that far off any more. > seems like the best time for some serious house cleaning. > therefore i'd like to urge everyone to give their pending changes which > haven't seen activity for a long time a honest look. > please explicitly mark the ones you st

Re: [Development] QtMultimedia BIC / header cleanliness issue

2013-01-22 Thread Shaw Andy
> On Tuesday, January 22, 2013 11:40:23 AM Oswald Buddenhagen wrote: > > On Mon, Jan 21, 2013 at 08:14:03AM -0800, Thiago Macieira wrote: > > > On segunda-feira, 21 de janeiro de 2013 15.33.59, Knoll Lars wrote: > > > > Finally reading up on some old emails… > > > > > > > > I'd say we add the virtu

Re: [Development] How and when recent 4.8 docs will be published on http://qt-project.org/doc/qt-4.8

2013-01-17 Thread Shaw Andy
> On 17/01/13 14:51, Giuseppe D'Angelo wrote: > > http://doc-snapshot.qt-project.org/4.8/qsettings.html is instead > > recreated nightly or so, so you'll see the note added in that commit. > > Aha! Ok... How should one know that the docs on > http://qt-project.org/doc/qt-4.8/ are from 4.8.4? In th

Re: [Development] ICU and Windows

2013-01-15 Thread Shaw Andy
ment] ICU and Windows > > On segunda-feira, 14 de janeiro de 2013 13.02.46, Shaw Andy wrote: > > Therefore I would like to propose that for 5.0.1 we simply modify the pro > > file so that it expects a d after the library name for the debug version > > and the release one

Re: [Development] ICU and Windows

2013-01-14 Thread Shaw Andy
To get things back on track, I think we have a case for either way saying that we could ignore it as since as long as it's done the correct way then it should be fine. But there is also a case for doing the right thing as far as what is recommended by Microsoft in this case especially since we

Re: [Development] ICU and Windows

2013-01-11 Thread Shaw Andy
> [...] > > > Microsoft in the past has also said that you should keep the -MD(d)/-MT(d) > > setting consistent so it is the same across all libraries and applications, > > [...] > > Which is cool, if you can manage it. But it's far from what happens in the > real world. > > In the real world y

Re: [Development] ICU and Windows

2013-01-11 Thread Shaw Andy
> I'm no expert on the various build and link issues, but in trying to write the > new ICU backend for QLocale which would make ICU a hard requirement in > the > future I've started running into problems which may affect your choice of > solution. > > For those interested, I have working code for

Re: [Development] ICU and Windows

2013-01-11 Thread Shaw Andy
> On sexta-feira, 11 de janeiro de 2013 13.32.35, Shaw Andy wrote: > > Unfortunately this is what is happening now if ICU is linked in, ICU will > > always use the release version so if Qt is built in debug mode then it will > > end up mixing the C runtime libraries. >

[Development] ICU and Windows

2013-01-11 Thread Shaw Andy
As I was investigating a different problem I came across a bigger issue regarding ICU on Windows. The problem is that when ICU is linked against on Windows it links against the same copy of the library even if it is building for release which causes a problem with C runtime libraries on Windows

Re: [Development] RFC: What constitutes a "non-destabilising" bug-fix?

2012-12-10 Thread Shaw Andy
> -Original Message- > From: development-bounces+andy.shaw=digia@qt-project.org > [mailto:development-bounces+andy.shaw=digia@qt-project.org] On > Behalf Of Marc Mutz > Sent: 9. desember 2012 14:23 > To: development@qt-project.org > Subject: Re: [Development] RFC: What constitutes

Re: [Development] Frameworks on Mac?

2012-11-21 Thread Shaw Andy
> When I was doing the lib renaming, I thought we had concluded that > frameworks > on Mac were not going to be supported anymore. > > Imagine my surprise when I finish my first successful build on Mac and > discover > that frameworks are the default... > > I guess we should change, right? I'm no

Re: [Development] Summary of renaming changes

2012-10-19 Thread Shaw Andy
> looks like there's quite some discussion about Thiago's proposal. Let's see if > we can get at least agreement on most of the changes and then focus on the > parts that are controversial. > > Going through the list below, most of the changes will not affect anybody in a > big way. > > > On Oct

Re: [Development] Nominating Andy Shaw for Approver

2012-10-15 Thread Shaw Andy
> On Oct 15, 2012, at 9:39 AM, Mark Brand > wrote: > > > João Abecasis wrote: > >> Hi, > >> > >> I'd like to nominate Andy Shaw for Approver status. Andy's history > >> with Qt is longer than my own, having catered to commercial customers > >> in Trolltech, Nokia and Digia. Looking over the main

Re: [Development] What's with bugreports.qt-project.org?

2012-09-26 Thread Shaw Andy
> -Original Message- > From: Stephen Chu [mailto:step...@ju-ju.com] > Sent: 26. september 2012 15:55 > To: Shaw Andy > Cc: Иван Комиссаров; Konstantin Tokarev; development > Subject: Re: [Development] What's with bugreports.qt-project.org? > > On 9/26/12 6:

Re: [Development] What's with bugreports.qt-project.org?

2012-09-26 Thread Shaw Andy
> 26.09.2012, в 14:15, Konstantin Tokarev написал(а): > > 26.09.2012, 11:09, "Иван Комиссаров" : > >> I would like to ask a question - what's with Qt Jira? Does any people > >> really > look at it and fix bugs? For the past 2 years, situation get worse and worse - > 3-4 years ago bugs were fix

Re: [Development] Removing Wacom support in Qt5

2012-09-10 Thread Shaw Andy
> On 10 September 2012 12:58, Shaw Andy wrote: > > > To clarify, I did the patch that everyone is referring to, I actually did > > it in my > Nokia days when I had access to the tablet and passed it on to someone after > I joined Digia. It is a hack because I had t

Re: [Development] Removing Wacom support in Qt5

2012-09-10 Thread Shaw Andy
> On domingo, 9 de setembro de 2012 13.25.29, Boudewijn Rempt wrote: > > The solution for a bug can never be to wilfully break existing applications! > > What can I as an application developer depend on if that's deemed > > acceptable? "Yeah, we had a feature, and yeah, people depend on it, but > w

[Development] Having a reserved value for the platform enums was RE: Binary incompatible changes to Qt 4.8

2012-05-24 Thread Shaw Andy
[snip] > >The warning needs to go away, at least, provided that Qt *is* tested on > >Windows 8. Whether we add the enum or not, that's a bit orthogonal. > > Yes, the warning needs to be fixed. > > But I don't have any problems with adding the new enum in a patch level > release. The only thing i

Re: [Development] QTBUG-23489: Implement the new regular expression classes using PCRE

2012-02-23 Thread Shaw Andy
On 2/22/12 9:48 PM, "Thiago Macieira" wrote: >On quarta-feira, 22 de fevereiro de 2012 17.11.17, lars.kn...@nokia.com >wrote: >> Hi, >> >> this is the first mail where I'd like to go through the remaining >>features >> for Qt 5.0. >> >> I know that this bug is blocked by not having PCRE in 3r

Re: [Development] QLocale work

2012-01-19 Thread Shaw Andy
On 1/19/12 4:15 AM, "Thiago Macieira" wrote: >On Wednesday, 18 de January de 2012 21.24.36, Shaw Andy wrote: >> For what it is worth I also agree that it should be changed, having >> recently having to deal with the QDoubleValidator problem when it came >>to

Re: [Development] QLocale work

2012-01-18 Thread Shaw Andy
On 1/18/12 2:21 PM, "lars.kn...@nokia.com" wrote: >> >>We need to avoid the problem of printf / scanf that use different decimal >>conventions depending on the user locale. That means the naive >>implementation >>will be unable to parse the data it generated under a different locale >>settings.

Re: [Development] Commit policy (was: Qt Commercial 4.8.0 release delta to LGPL version)

2011-12-16 Thread Shaw Andy
On 12/16/11 1:18 PM, "Olivier Goffart" wrote: >On Friday 16 December 2011 12:48:32 Thiago Macieira wrote: >> On Friday, 16 de December de 2011 11.07.03, Sergio Ahumada wrote: >> > One idea is to have an automated process that propose the changes to >> > be merged from Qt 4.(x-1) to Qt 4.x in Ge