[Development] Ongoing testlib maintenance

2012-08-30 Thread jason.mcdonald
Along with most of the Brisbane Trolls, I'll be leaving Nokia tomorrow. I'll be on vacation for the next two months, but I will check my gerrit dashboard every few days and try to keep up with reviews. I intend to keep my Maintainer status while I still feel that I can commit enough time to do

Re: [Development] Missing MacOS Qt5 beta installer (IT WAS: Experimental Qt 5 installers by Digia)

2012-07-17 Thread jason.mcdonald
There's a mac package now at http://releases.qt-project.org/digia/2012-07-17/qt-mac-opensource-5.0.0-beta1-offline.dmg Perhaps building the mac package takes a bit longer than the others. -- Jason From: development-bounces+jason.mcdonald=nokia..

Re: [Development] Assignment of JIRA bugs to non-approvers

2012-06-11 Thread jason.mcdonald
Hi Rafael, > I believe this was briefly discussed on IRC, but just to recapitulate, is it > possible to have JIRA bugs assigned automatically to non-approvers? The automatic assignment of new tasks is based on component ownership. Anyone who is assignable can be the owner of a component, and the

Re: [Development] Nominating Miikka Heikkinen for Approver status

2012-05-26 Thread jason.mcdonald
> I would like to nomimate Miikka Heikkinen from Digia for Approver status. > > He has been working on Qt 5 on Windows for a quite a while and has fixed > numerous issues and failing test cases in the areas QWidget/QWindow, > fonts, Vista style and QML and is currently working on the daunting task

Re: [Development] Release procedure in cooperation with the web team

2012-04-25 Thread jason.mcdonald
> I started a wiki page with a list of stuff to do with regards to Qt > releases. It is based on our workflows from before and quite an efficient > procedure. > > http://qt-project.org/wiki/Release-procedure > > Please take a look and improve it as you see fit. Do we need to co-ordinate with the C

Re: [Development] Qt Playground - Mock add-on module

2012-04-24 Thread jason.mcdonald
> I would like to work on a Mock add-on module in Qt Playground that > might be beneficial later for certain projects. See the relevant > wikipage for a short introduction about the goals of mock objects in > testing: > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mock_object > > There were previous attempts to ad

Re: [Development] Suggested improvements to JIRA

2012-04-20 Thread jason.mcdonald
>>2) make it possible to add any user to the watcher list >> The only way today of requesting information from someone else is to assign >> the task. That means I can't ask for information from two people. > >You already can add other people to the watcher list (or at least I can, but >maybe it re

Re: [Development] Suggested improvements to JIRA

2012-04-20 Thread jason.mcdonald
>1) automatically add every commenter to the Watch list, upon making a comment > Many people used to Bugzilla don't realise that they will not receive answers > back unless they add themselves to the Watchers list. This means we never get > replies that we need. I have experienced the same frustra

Re: [Development] important: upcoming rename of _qpa.h to _p.h

2012-04-17 Thread jason.mcdonald
> On Tue, Apr 17, 2012 at 4:12 AM, Girish Ramakrishnan > wrote: > > 1. qtestlib ends up exposing qpa api and thus testcases might end up > > being binary incompatible - This should be fixed in > > AFAIK qtestlib doesn't promise binary compatibility (see e.g. > http://qt.gitorious.org/qt/qtqa/comm

Re: [Development] Towards a Qt 5 beta

2012-04-13 Thread jason.mcdonald
> Random question of the day: do you happen to have stats about how > often those insignificant tests actually fail? That should help to > figure out which ones are actually working, and therefore should not > be marked as insignificant. I'm glad you asked. I spent some time yesterday and today d

Re: [Development] Towards a Qt 5 beta

2012-04-13 Thread jason.mcdonald
>Another way tests have been disabled is using CONFIG += no_check_target which >seems to have been done when tests were initially disabled before the >insignificant_test option was added. Actually, I think that came a little later (when the refactor branch was merged into master). That mechani

Re: [Development] Towards a Qt 5 beta

2012-04-13 Thread jason.mcdonald
> I've grepped through all the modules to create a list of these insignificant > tests, and listed them below. Please note that a test marked as insignificant > in essence provides us with zero coverage, since all results from those test > cases (although run) are completely ignored. > IMO, if

Re: [Development] Towards a Qt 5 beta

2012-04-12 Thread jason.mcdonald
> To help with this I would like to nominate Casper Vandonderen as the > maintainer for our documentation. I've already talked to him and he's > interested and willing to take the job. This doesn't mean he is > responsible for writing or reviewing all the documentation we have, but > his role would

Re: [Development] System Locale Update broken

2012-04-12 Thread jason.mcdonald
> As this is a regression from 4.8 I assume it must be fixed for 5.0, rather > than just hacking the test to make it pass? I also assume I need to open a > separate bug report for it? As much as possible we would like to fix any regressions that we find in 5.0 compared to 4.8, so that migration

Re: [Development] Nominating Kurt Korbatits for approver

2012-04-11 Thread jason.mcdonald
On hursday, March 15, 2012 3:02 PM, Rohan Mcgovern said: >jason.mcdon...@nokia.com said: >> All, >> >> I'd like to nominate Kurt Korbatits for approver status. Kurt worked on >> Qtopia, Qt and Qt Mobility from 2005 to 2010 and rejoined Nokia's Brisbane >> team in late 2011. Since then he has be

Re: [Development] Qt5 missing features

2012-04-10 Thread jason.mcdonald
On Tuesday 10 April 2012 Christoph Feck wrote: > Instead of rushing half-baked APIs, the 5.0 release should be a solid > base from which new and well designed APIs can be launched. The less > APIs are included into 5.0, the lower the frustation will be when it > is later discovered that they are il

[Development] Qt 5 Next Steps

2012-04-04 Thread jason.mcdonald
By now, I'm sure you've all seen various announcements about the Qt 5 Alpha Release and you've hopefully also read Lars' blog on Qt Labs. The main purpose of the Alpha is to show users where Qt 5 is headed and to get feedback on the various new features and API's, and some useful feedback that

Re: [Development] configure --help not work now!

2012-03-22 Thread jason.mcdonald
> I remember some days ago it still works fine. > But it don't work for me. :( Hi Loaden, I'm not able to produce this failure using qt5.git. Please provide more information (e.g. which platform, which repo/sha1's), preferably by raising an issue in https://bugreports.qt-project.org/. Cheers

[Development] Nominating Kurt Korbatits for approver

2012-03-14 Thread jason.mcdonald
All, I'd like to nominate Kurt Korbatits for approver status. Kurt worked on Qtopia, Qt and Qt Mobility from 2005 to 2010 and rejoined Nokia's Brisbane team in late 2011. Since then he has been working on improving the state of Qt's autotests with a particular focus on getting the tests worki

Re: [Development] new QtNetwork maintainer

2012-02-13 Thread jason.mcdonald
> Shane Kearns has however stepped up and is willing to take over the > position. I'm really happy that Shane is willing to take this job. He has > a lot of experience with QtNetwork, and has been heavily involved with Qt > development (actively working on the Symbian port) for quite a few years. >

Re: [Development] Nominating Robin Burchell for approver

2011-12-28 Thread jason.mcdonald
Thiago Macieira [thiago.macie...@intel.com] wrote: > I'd like to nominate Robin Burchell (a.k.a. w00t on IRC) for approver in Qt. > He's been around Qt for some time now and has been contributing both in his > work time and in his personal time. He was also my main external "sparring > partner" wh

Re: [Development] Feature freeze date?

2011-12-15 Thread jason.mcdonald
Having been release manager for several past Qt feature releases (4.5 to 4.7), I'm wary of setting a single feature freeze date and having a big rush to cram all the new features into the master branch in the last couple of days before the deadline. Instead, I would like to see a staggered deli