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== 2019 ==


==== 1. August 2019 ====
==2024==
  - (Summer break)
  - PYSIDE-795 (numpy support is progressing)
  - PYSIDE-951 (primitive pointer types ready for review)
  - Fixed pyside-setup 5.14 branch building (addressing lots of deprecation changes)


==== 25. July 2019 ====
===23. May 2024===
  - (Summer break)
* General
  - continuing on PYSIDE-795: documentation,
* Infra & Releases
    - supporting the iterable protocol (will become sub-task)
* Bugs & Features
    - augmenting incomplete classes (QtPrintSupport)
    - checking and correcting function signatures according to PYSIDE-951


==== 18. July 2019 ====
===16. May 2024===
  - (Summer break)
* General
  - Some progress related to Bug fixing is being done.
* Infra & Releases
  - bug fixing on signatures accessing "__doc__" on a module function.
** 5.15.17 commercial lts needs to be re-packaged one more time due to 3rd party components updates.
  - continued on PYSIDE-795
** 6.7.1 release will also be re-packed. LE for release is 20th of May
* Bugs & Features
** [https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-2753 PYSIDE-2753] - Added missing libQt6DeclarativeOpcUa binary to wheels
** [https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-2750 PYSIDE-2750] - Added missing libQt6VirtualKeyboardSettings binary to wheels
** Exclude .qsb, .webp, .cpp.o and .qen from deployment due to Nuitka error. Error report raised in Nuitka - https://github.com/Nuitka/Nuitka/issues/2854
** Working on macOS cross compilation. The clang parser of shiboken generator needs some changes for cross compilation. Tricky changes incoming.
** [https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-2748 PYSIDE-2748] - Fixed a type hint error
** [https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-2747 PYSIDE-2747] - Diagnostics and minor fixes for a crash on Fedora, no real fix though
** [https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-2711 PYSIDE-2711] - Fixed a bug in QWidget/QObject.parent()
** Work on type discovery in libshiboken, added helpers to dump internal state, performance considerations
** [https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-2620 PYSIDE-2620] - Adapting to 6.8


==== 11. July 2019 ====
===2. May 2024===
  - visiting EuroPython
  - discussed roadmap for 5.14 release (check out Pyside Jira project with FixVersion 5.14)
  - continued CI configuration setup for pyside-setup
  - continued on shared pointer bugs(PYSIDE-1024 & PYSIDE-1043)
  - assert triggering for certain types (PYSIDE-1037)
  - further changes for PYSIDE-951
  - numpy enhancements (PYSIDE-795) (documentation and tests improvements)


==== 04. July 2019 ====
* General
  - Qt for Python 5.13.0 released
** OKR reviews for the next quarter.
  - Experimented with cross compiling
** Got a long document with feedback of a few tools we provided, that will help us improving our tooling!
    - not easily possible -> build system needs major work
** Started the planning of moving away from '<file>.pyproject' to 'pyproject.toml' for pyside projects, in order to add options for our tools.
  - New control system for Qt for Python (isolates Qt4Python CI configuration from coin)
* Infra & Releases
    - more flexible way of working as not dependent on coin release
** 5.15.17 commercial lts needs to be re-packaged due to 3rd party components updates.
  - [https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-951 PYSIDE-951] finish
** 6.7.1 to be released next week.
  - [https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-795 PYSIDE-795] work continues
** Add new mechanism to test snapshot wheels.
  - fixed QFlags handling
* Bugs & Features
  - had trouble merging pyside to dev branch
** [https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-2698 PYSIDE-2698] - ListProperty features fixed. Added tests to check all the features.
  - some discussions around smart pointer handling in Qt4Python
** [https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-2705 PYSIDE-2705] - issues with signal disconnect warnings fixed
  - https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-634 ready to be merged
** macOS cross compilation for Android - stuck on a CMake issue. Progressing well.
  - https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-1010
** [https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-2709 PYSIDE-2709] - Analysis ongoing for this QML registration regression
** Work on improving/documenting type discovery in shiboken
** Enumeration support in QtScrypt
** [https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-2676 PYSIDE-2676] - PEP 697 extension in Python 3.12 fixed
** BT bug research, cannot be reproduced and application doesn't hang. Connection is not successful.
*** Issue might require special hw
** Documenting QtAsyncio implementation details.
*** An internal presentation is being prepared.
** Possible QtAsyncio feature, 'run' supporting context managers.
** macOS cross compilation for android being tried


==== 27. June 2019 ====
  - about to finish [https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-951 PYSIDE-951]
  - fixed "Fix qApp import of QCoreApplication"
  - cleanup formatting of all source code and modern C++11 features
  - final re-working of "Example: Move the SQL statements", improving the C++ code as well


==== 20. June 2019 ====
===25. April 2024===
  - Release
* General
    - Qt for Python 5.12.4 released today
** Successful talk at PyCon DE. Good response.
    - Qt for Python 5.13.0 wheels done -> still need testing
* Infra & Releases
  - Coin configurations to be separated from qt5.git (will become part of pyside-setup.git
** Preparing 6.7.1
  - SQL example was updated (to be more pythonic)
** 5.15.17 Commercial LTS is also soon to be prepared
  - Shared pointer related fixes being done
** sccache seems to be not properly behaving (on windows) because we are not getting enough output.
  - reopened https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-1033 (how to build shiboken) after reviewing the current situation
** PySide6_DS wheel to be adjusted and hopefully be released soon.
  - macOS build issue being addressed
* Bugs & Features
  - https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-951
** Added a number of new classes
  - team got commit rights for pyinstaller project repository
** PYSIDE-2676 issues on ubuntu (might be related to a windows issue as well)
  - TQtC is sponsoring PyCon DE
** Implementation of Lazy Groups in order to avoid the regression in 6.7.0 due to multiple inheritance.
** Alternative for Lazy Groups (Fix for the regression on 6.7.0)
*** Work on regressions introduced by lazy initialization [https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-2675 PYSIDE-2675]
** Work on a crash in Python 3.12 [https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-2676 PYSIDE-2676]
** Fixed memory leaks [https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-1617 PYSIDE-1617]
** Work on our QML list property support [https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-2698 PYSIDE-2698]
** Added pyside6-balsamui (ui tool for pyside6-balsam) - PYSIDE-2629
** Also checking out List Property error with `count` and `at` parameters - [https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-2698 PYSIDE-2698]
** Updating old example (calqlatr) - https://codereview.qt-project.org/c/pyside/pyside-setup/+/523055 for responsive layout
** QtAsyncio: refinements to the current implementation, and solved a bug report.
*** Trying to add support to Keyboard interruptions (handlers)
*** Plan to improve exceptions handling


==== 12. June 2019 ====
===18. April 2024===
  - Example polish, introduced QSaveFile, fixed tabbed browser [https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-1022 PYSIDE-1022]
  - Fixed [https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-1017 PYSIDE-1017], named parameters in added functions
  - Started to look at some issues with smart pointers, [https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-1024 PYSIDE-1024], [https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-1016 PYSIDE-1016] related to [https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-454 PYSIDE-454]
  - Making progress in the embedded support story.
    - After trying the setup.py approach, there was a lot of modifications involve in our build process, so it was not considered a good option.
    - a CMake approach is currently being used, and shiboken generator and the python module are successfully cross-compiled, but still, there is work to do.
  - Final solution of qApp embedding [https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-571 PYSIDE-571]. After a long Odyssey of breaking solutions, qApp macro works now as expected with embedding.
  - PyInstaller maintainer still did not reply as promised on 2019-06-04 phone call.


==== 6. June 2019 ====
* General
  - Summer holidays affecting releasing? Any estimate when we would have:
** Bug fixing week
    - Qt for Python 5.13.0 (Qt still on RC0)
** PyConDE (Mon-Wed next week)
    - Qt for Python 5.12.4 (in the next few weeks)
** Planning a workshop for TQtC solution engineers (internal)
  - discussed options how to sign wheel content
** Possibility to include shiboken into the Axivion infra
  - cross compilation of Qt for Python (work in progress)
* Infra & Releases
    -> investigating options on how to achieve that in an easy way
** 5.15.17 commercial LTS was postponed to Friday. Still need test on Windows.
  - fixed build on CentOS
** 6.5.6 release planned
  - https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-1017
** 6.7.1 release has been postponed to the first week of May
  - https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-1016
** DS-compatibility wheel postponed due to CI issues
  - https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-1024
** We might need to create a testing platform in order to check other errors that are not detectable with simple tests.
  - https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-1019
* Bugs & Features
  - https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-795 (NumPy)
** Few new type hints issues from 6.7.0 release, needs to be address on 6.7.1
  - discussed commit issues with pyinstaller maintainer
** QtAsyncio issue related to Task groups. Tricky, because it can be related to Qt Events.
  - QtC will have presence on PyCon DE
** PYSIDE-2629 Adding more Qt-tools to the wheels
** PYSIDE-2622 Adding a new option to the deploy tool (exposing an option from Nuitka)
** PYSIDE-2675 Lazy loading issues with trees of polymorphic classes.
*** first approach made things less effective
*** The impact of the solution was reduced a bit, by disabling the feature for special multiple-inheritance cases
*** New idea on 'groups' that be handled differently, so we have group or classes grouped and dependant
** 825 qml bug is still around
*** PYSIDE-2676 seems to be a new approach to fix it
** A few customer bugs made it the bug fixing week.
** PYSIDE-2675 type discovery code, class inheritance
** QtAudio -> QAudio refactory
** Virtual function compatibility to modify the signature (from typesystem)
** PYSIDE-2492 uic issues for Enum compatibility
*** More improvements for Python projects (import options)
** PYSIDE-2685 nan type definition
** Removing code from shiboken
** 6.8 Adaption already started
** PYSIDE-2689 sphinx directives doesn't seems to be compatible with the search context.


==== 23. May 2019 ====
===11. April 2024===
  - Qt 6 (e.g. Pyside 6.0?) https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-904
* General
  - Pyinstaller issues being a bottle neck at the moment for the deployment story
** Bug fixing week.
  - Qt for Python 5.12.4 release
** Qt 6.6.3 Library split broke our release, so we provided 6.6.3.1 as a fix.
    - patches are accumulating
** Qt 6.7.0 also had an issue with a binary incompatibility change on QtAudio and QAudio
    - TODO: branching, changelog, testing
** Maybe we implement a simple channel of communicating this details, in order to avoid breakage [maybe architect meetings]
  - Qt for Python 5.13 release status
** Qt Creator 13 creates venvs automatically. This needs to be revisited to avoid multiple environments to be created.
    - need cleanup in Jira of fix versions
** New epics with brainstorming ideas.
    - Qt 5.13 blog post
* Infra & Releases
    - start generating 5.13 release wheels for testing
** 6.7.0 was released, we found a couple of issues we are trying to solve, and 6.7.1 will soon be released due to a binary compatibility break, and other small breakage.
  - Discussed Python 2 EOL on 1.1.2020
**  5.15.17 commercial LTS to be release next week.
    - Current proposal is dropping Python 2 support in Qt for Python 6
** QtDS packages a bit delay due to CI errors.
    - Python 2 users can continue to use Qt for Python 5.15
** Qt Installer (Maintenance tool) has  still some issues with the structure.  
* Bugs & Features
** Adding new Qt tools to the wheels (wrappers)
** PYSIDE-2602 special virtual function research
** PYSIDE-2669 designer issue
** PYSIDE-2675 Addressing the lazy import issues that were found in 6.7.0
*** Studying the possible solution, but it needs to consider other cases as well.
*** the *-import handling seems to be related, and affecting the mro content, duplicating some entries.
*** the type discovery handler might be related as well
** Still working on the qml 825 bug issues.


==== 16. May 2019 ====
===4. April 2024===
  - Team member attended PyCon US
* General
  - Work on tutorials
** Large part of the team at conferences/on Easter holiday
  - [https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-816 PYSIDE-816] [https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-1003 PYSIDE-1003] Final fix checked in
* Infra & Releases
  - [https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-735 PYSIDE-735] Make generate_pyi crash on real ImportErrors, only!
** Released 6.6.3.1 release with fixes for Quick Controls/Multimedia
  - [https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-1004 PYSIDE-1004] writable signatures implemented but needs to change
** Preparing for 6.7.0
* Bugs & Features
** [https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-2646 PYSIDE-2646] Improved cleanup of signal manager objects
** [https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-2662 PYSIDE-2662] Fix for a signal in OpcUA
** [https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-2663 PYSIDE-2663] Fixed a crash in webengine bindings
** [https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-2668 PYSIDE-2668] Fixed an error in enums


==== 9. May 2019 ====
===28. March 2024===
  - Final fixes to uic to be able to generate Python [https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-797 PYSIDE-797]
* General
  - Refactorings in libpyside
* Infra & Releases
  - Work on SQL book tutorial
** Prepared 6.6.3.1 release; 6.6.3 was unfortunately broken due to missing libraries (Quick Controls/Multimedia)
  - Research into using Clang C++ API
* Bugs & Features
  - [https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-816 PYSIDE-816] [https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-1003 PYSIDE-1003] Final fix is waiting for approval
** [https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-2654 PYSIDE-2654] Fixed multiple inheritance when no __init__ is in a subclass
  - Viewer tool for [https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-803 PYSIDE-803] nearly ready for browsing code
** Still investigating a crash on Ubuntu with Python 3.12 and bug_825.py . The crash is deeply hiding in Qt6.
** [https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-2652 PYSIDE-2652] Fixed an int overflow
** [https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-2649 PYSIDE-2649] Work on building without OpenGL
** [https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-2653 PYSIDE-2653] Fixed a syntax error in type hints


==== 2. May 2019 ====
===21. March 2024===
  - 5.12.3 released
* General
  - Looking into OpenGL version functions [https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-955 PYSIDE-955]
** Ideas to improve the module.
  - Improved shiboken2 progress message output
** Most of the team is going on vacation the following weeks.
  - Sped up shiboken2 class generation significantly
* Infra & Releases
  - Improved code generated for multiple inheritance
** 6.7.0 to be released the first week of April [delayed]
  - First look at 5.14 API
** 6.2.12 Commercial LTS to be release in the following days [delayed]
  - Fixed Problems with PyInstaller after removal of Coin glitches
** 6.6.3 to be release next week [delayed]
  - Wrote viewer tool to finally support [https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-803 PYSIDE-803]
* Bugs & Features
** 6.8 adaption patches are being worked
** PYSIDE-2638 fix crash QLayout when None is passed
** Documentation updates: for tooling and examples.
** QtRhi missing API provided
** Memory leak regression being worked out
** Shiboken Qt namespaces patches being cherry picked to previous versions.
** Android deployment and qml tool documentations
** Android wheels generation on the CI process is being improved.
** Debugging deep into Nuitka to understand a problem with the lazy loading functionality.
** QAsyncio bug fixed
** Adding more tools docs pages for our tools.


==== 25. April 2019 ====
===14. March 2024===
- Preparation for Qt for Python 5.12.3 release.
* General
  - Replaced QtXmlPatterns by libxml2/libxslt for documentation generation
** PyConDE schedule is out, don't miss Shyam's talk https://pretalx.com/pyconde-pydata-2024/talk/W7YDRX/
  - Testing and final polishing of Python output mode of uic 5.14
** Python 3.13.0a5 is out.
  - New signatures related to PYSIDE-989
* Infra & Releases
  - Looking into OpenGL version functions [https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-955 PYSIDE-955]
** 6.7.0 in preparation, docs adjustments and new pages will come. Branching on Monday.
  - Improving the usability of the "--reuse-build" option
** 6.2.12 LTS release in preparation.
  - fixing new PyInstaller problem with Python 2.7.16
** 6.6.3 will be release next week.
** qtpip 0.1.1 to be released
** dev is already Python 3.8 free, and we support 3.9+ for 6.7+
* Bugs & Features
** Triaging and fixing issues in general: 2638 layout crash.
** PYSIDE-2690 namespaces support continues
** Lazy initialization got merged
*** New improvements might land in future versions
** PYSIDE-2635 OpcUA example problem
** PYSIDE-2633 remoteobjects issue
** Using new icons on the examples
** Testing libclang 18
** QObject.connect bug when a callable is a QObject (workaround with manual overload)
** QIOPipe implementation for QAsyncio (base in the Qt/C++ one)
** New use cases for QAsyncio and aiohttp
** permission API changes got merge
** android wheel compilation was adapted for qt 6.7.0 (PR on python-for-android was merged)
** PYSIDE-1639 QLocale issue was fixed


==== 18. April 2019 ====
===07. March 2024===
- Usage of QtXmlPattern in doc tool chain of Qt for Python
* General
  - xml pattern deprecated in Qt 5.13
** Participation in FOSS Backstage
  - working on libxml2 replacement (has issues on platforms w/o libxml2 support)
* Infra & Releases
  - in the long term, the qdoc generation process should really produce python docs too
** 6.5.5 Commercial LTS was released
  - updated coin to continue to include QtXmlPattern for Qt for Python builds
** 5.15.13 OSS Package will be released tomorrow
- [https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-996 PYSIDE-996] fixed on SuSE but not yet RedHat
** qtpip 0.1.1 release delayed
- working on docs to provide hints when working with pyinstaller
** Python 3.8 deprecation is still pending due to CI configuration dependencies.
- [https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-955 PYSIDE-955 ] in progress
* Bugs & Features
- New attempt on [https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-803 PYSIDE-803]
** permission api changes are mostly merged, one pending https://codereview.qt-project.org/c/pyside/pyside-setup/+/536759/15
- shiboken [https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-995 PYSIDE-995] call operator support
** all deployment fixes are in.
- custom scene graph rendering node in Python (related to PYSIDE-955 PYSIDE-989)
** lazy initialization work continues, and some issues were fixed already.
- improving primitive type conversion (by the various OpenGL related bugs like PYSIDE-989 or PYSIDE-955)
*** Ubuntu 22.04 | Python 3.10.2 |is showing an issue with scriptableapplication
** Continue implementing more API for QtAsyncio which is currently working well
** two pending change for 6.7.0 and 6.6.3 to be merged.
** PYSIDE-2590 qt namespaces support required a patch for Qt/C++
** PYSIDE-2619 gentoo issue with a build
** PYSIDE-2624 typing issue with '/' is being researched
** Qt Icon Teams issues were discovered
** PYSIDE-2602 virtual function research on a special signature
** One regression related to the QObject.connect changes.


==== 11. April 2019 ====
===29. February 2024===
- PyInstaller problems identified as COIN bugs [https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-996 PYSIDE-996 ]
- continuing with [https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-795 PYSIDE-795 ]
  - handling pointers which are arrays arrays (patch defunct after too many other changes)
  - identifying remaining bad spots that need improving
- Started work on [https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-955 PYSIDE-955 ]
- Started diagnosis of [https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-995 PYSIDE-995 ]
- Continued on work enabling extending namespaces across modules


==== 4. April 2019 ====
* General
- working in Wiki page on how to port a C++ application to Qt for Python (over time should turn into tutorial)
** Leap day!
- further discussion how to handle snippets
** Documentation changes
- more tutorials (especially for PYSIDE-901)
* Infra & Releases
- Further work on cross compilation for ARMv7
** 6.7.0 will drop support of Python 3.8
- Various fixes for Shiboken to handle namespaces in Qt better
** 6.5.5 to be released in the following days
- Improve Shiboken documentation composition/layout
** 6.7.0 RC marks our feature freeze, some exceptions will be discussed in order to release on time.
- Bugfixing related to Qt file handling
** qtpip 0.1.1 to be released soon for new indexing and shiboken_wizard package
** General update of Python versions in our CI configuration is being planned (for dev-6.7)
* Bugs & Features
** PYSIDE-2599 QMatrix3x3 issues with QVariant
** PYSIDE-2605 Embedding an application, using .style() - qAPP
** PYSIDE-2590 QT_NAMESPACES support
** PYSIDE-2602 clash on signature for QtWebEngine returning tuple
** Preparing 6.5.5 and 6.7.0 releases.
** PYSIDE-2612 CMake issue from Anaconda builds when find_package
** macOS permissions changes are almost all merged
** Windows BTLE services crash
** QIO-class are required for some new QAsyncio API using pipes
** Lazy loading moving forward, but still a few issues are around
*** A couple of shiboken tests seems to have outdated imports that are not helping.
*** shiboken compatibility types missing
** Typing issues being solved in order to improve the pyi quality


==== 28. March 2019 ====
===22. February 2024===
- Qt for Python 5.12.2 released last on 22. March 2019
* General
- started to write up documentation on how to deploy with pyinstaller
** Brainstorming discussion about new JIRA items.
  - finding quite a few issues when using pyinstaller on Windows (and particular Python 2)
* Infra & Releases
  - macOS & Linux less problematic
** 6.6.2 was released!
- worked on documentation issues (like missing links for easier browsing)
** qtpip getting a new minor version in order to be able to install new shiboken wizard
- investigated issues where shiboken didn't handle C++ namespaces across modules
* Bugs & Features
- handle nullptr usage properly in docs
** Permission API issue failing on the release framework. QtLocation problems were addressed.
- more translation of C++ snippets to Python (is a never ending task as there are thousands of C++ snippets)
** QtAsyncio blog post was published.
** Definition of done for QtAsyncio story, some functions will be implemented, but other ones (until reaching the whole set of user facing API) will be implemented in the future.
** Lazy initialization of numpy support in PySide, to improve the general lazy loading effort.
** Starting documenting pyside6-* tools
** PYSIDE-2610 Qt3D issues
** 6.7 adaption was a lot of work, namespaces were something tricky.
** 6.7 changelog drafted.
** Started to improve the type hinting issues.


==== 21. March 2019 ====
===15. February 2024===
- Qt for Python 5.12.2 release activities
  - some bugs and general CI issues kept delaying the generation of the final release wheels
  - most bugs were related to pyinstaller and other deployment tools
  - one last cxfreeze bug being integrated
  - next/subsequent set of wheels will be 5.12.2 release
- Lots of installer related discussions in the team
  - question is which installer/deployment tool to use/recommend
  - current decision is to provide guides/documentation for at least fbs and pyinstaller
- review of project's current release practices (in particular in the area of QA)
  - no outcome at this stage
- addressed issues in dev branch related to changes in Qt dev branch
- Qt for Python team joined Qt doc team to talk about ways how to improve Qt for Python docs


==== 14. March 2019 ====
* General
- Fixed broken documentation formatting; added deprecation information
** Brainstorming session was held.
- [https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/QTBUG-74424 QTBUG-74424] 5.13 Release blocker affecting doc generation occurred
** Europython Call for Proposal is open!
- [https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-932 PYSIDE-932]/[https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-942 PYSIDE-942]: The embedding patch is mostly
* Infra & Releases
  working, but needs some refinement to be complete:
** 6.6.2 release waiting for Qt/C++ packages to be done.
  - The .pyc generation contradicts the Limited API and must be changed to
** Commercial 6.5.5 LTS to be out next week.
    use source code.
** Some improvements to the CI and macOS behavior
  - The code isolation must be made explicit and complete, so that installers
** Cherry pick bot on commercial repositories.
    ''don't recognize'' that there is something.
* Bugs & Features
    Right now this was done in the wrong direction.
** singleShot changes are merged, keep an eye on strange behavior.
  Not much code and time necessary, just fixing ''the right'' bits.
** 6.7 adaption: metaobjectdump improvements
- PYSIDE-934 The Buffer protocol for Python 2 needed a special flag to be compatible.               
** 6.6.2 fixes with the commercial shibokenwizard
- Added more features for the Python project wizards on QtCreator https://codereview.qt-project.org/#/c/255686/
** lupdate support for pyside improved (qm files)
- Created a new tutorial for a workshop https://github.com/cmaureir/qtforpython_workshop
** pyside6-project problems with dry-run were fixed. Some improvements planned.
** CI android wheels upgrade [skip armv7 in the meantime]
** Lazy imports research continues, we see lots of improvements on apple M* devices.


==== 7. March 2019 ====
- Qt for Python 5.12.2 release
  - waiting for final patch before release (PYSIDE-942/PYSIDE-932)
- Setting up test envs for Python 3.7 & 3.5 (so far testing was always done on Python 3.6) -> work in progress
- QML tutorial under review (https://codereview.qt-project.org/#/c/254044/10)
- how to integrate deprecation infos from Qt to the Python side
- Python output to rcc [https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-855 PYSIDE-855]
- [https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-95 PYSIDE-95] fixed
- Experimented with MicroPython
- Found the reason for [https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-966 PYSIDE-966]: A memory leak was fixed by ctypes.


==== 28. February 2019 ====
===8. February 2024===
- Discussion on adding more python testing environments to be certain 3.5+ versions are properly working.
- [https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-953 PYSIDE-953] fixed
- [https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-934 PYSIDE-934] almost done
- [https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-931 PYSIDE-931] almost done
- refcount bug fixes mathplotlib crashes:
  - [https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-928 PYSIDE-928]
  - [https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-937 PYSIDE-937]
  - [https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-943 PYSIDE-943]
- WIP: Embedding to solve signature problems dependency of support directory since 5.12.1 . Will solve 
  - [https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-942 PYSIDE-942]  missing support, PyInstaller  (was solved but involves PyInstaller change)
  - [https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-932 PYSIDE-932]  missing support, cx_freese


==== 21. February 2019 ====
* General
- research on how to do ad hoc releases of Pyside 2 for bug fixes like last weeks meta data change (and otherwise no further source change)
** We got a PyConDE 2024 talk accepted (python -> android deployment)!
- Qt 5.12.2 about to be released -> should have a Qt for Python 5.12.2 release
* Infra & Releases
- discussed installer related crash bug following 5.12.1 release [https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-932 PYSIDE-932] etc.
** Addressing some issues with the android wheels
- tutorials works (based on recent Qt for Python youtube videos)
** 6.6.2 got delayed until next week
- prepared discussions with doc team meeting next week (on Python support)
** Preparing for the 6.7 switch on dev
- some more work on [https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-795 PYSIDE-795]
* Bugs & Features
- work to distinguish array types from pointer variables
** macOS: permission api patches ready for review
- [https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-946 PYSIDE-946] under development
** singleShot patches merged
- [https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-934 PYSIDE-934] void* type handling
** Lazy initialization was finished, and ready for discussion.
- [https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-938 PYSIDE-938] under review
** Check compatibility with the new REST module (from Qt/C++)
- Current Creator 4.9 beta released today added Python project templates
** Preparations for 6.7 continues.
- PEP 518 (project format for Python projects) -> needs Qt Creator support


==== 14. February 2019 ====
===1. February 2024===
- 5.12.1 wheels had meta data issues and were redone with fixed meta data
- discussed improving the integration of Python example code into Qt for Python docs
- [https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-921 PYSIDE-921]
- improved signature matching for custom types
- [https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-816 PYSIDE-816] fixed and merged
- [https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-922 PYSIDE-922] fixed
- [https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-45 PYSIDE-45] fixed
- looking at crashes when importing pandas & numpy (the order of imports matters when working around it)
==== 7. February 2019 ====
- Fixed 5.13 deprecation warnings (which unearthed that we had a dependency on QString::isNull() vs isEmpty() in shiboken)
- Fixed a large number of shiboken code generation warnings (revealing some issues)
- Provided s solution for one issue mentioned at PYSIDE-725 (apparently Sharon Woods from US is involved in some consulting?)
- Will start formal release tag marking in Jira (matching Qt style)
- Data visualization tutorial fixes
- Talking about further integration of existing examples into general docs
- [https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-803 PYSIDE-803] further investigation - no conclusion yet
- [https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-921 PYSIDE-921] fixed
- [https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-816 PYSIDE-816] investigated - fix seems at hand
- [https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-924 PYSIDE-924] fixed issue where Q_PROPERTY flags were not properly passed on to Qt
- restructured cmake files adding a master cmake file (simplifies opening of project in IDEs)
  - Now it's possible to open the whole project (PySide2 + Shiboken2) on QtCreator using the global CMakeList.txt
- worked on issues related to the setup.py and how to execute it.


==== 31. January 2019 ====
* General
- Preparing 5.12.1 release
** Interest from KDE to enable flatpak packages (maybe base pyside app).
  - Packages are looking good, likely to be released at same time as Qt 5.12.1 release
** Discussion on adding more tutorials of specific functionality.
- Submitted class bindings of Qt RemoteObjects for [https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-862 PYSIDE-862]
** CI Maintenance Break next Monday (first Monday of each month)
- Added classes QWebEngineHistory, WebEngineHistoryItem with required fix [https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-906 PYSIDE-906]
* Infra & Releases
- Have calls to method annotated as deprecated issue a warning
** no unity build discussion and checks
- Fixed warnings, prepared Qt 5.13 bindings (based on current 5.13 API additions)
** 6.6.2 to be released next week.
- Looked into [https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-816 PYSIDE-816], [https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-803 PYSIDE-803]
** More granularity on the commercial wheels: shiboken wizard wheel.
- Data visualization tutorial added
* Bugs & Features
- working on ways of substitution of C++ specific terms in docs against Python equivalents (e.g. nullptr and bool)
** singleShot timer implementation (to use underlying c++ impl) - still an issue with a context object, and a signal as a functor. A new QObject::connect might handle the situation. More changes to come in order to fix newly discovered issues.
** Android: using the master branch on python-for-android, and other changes related for macOS deployment.
** PYSIDE-2597 optimization for the deployment procedure
** Lazy initialization: works continues, and it's looking good. 13 bugs to go on lazy mode. The new implementation seems to be working better.
** 6.7 adaptation still in progress (many changes from Qt)
** General documentation adjustments
** Improvements on shiboken: better error messages
** Qt Namespaces compatibility attempts.
** Moving away from a couple of setup.py options towards pyproject.toml after upgrading 'build' to 1.0.x
** Design Studio compatibility wheel work continues


==== 24. January 2019 ====
- Release branch for 5.12.1 exist
  - There was some issues in CI with 5.12 branch earlier this week and it was pretty much blocked. All issues should be solved now.
- Prepared class bindings of Qt RemoteObject for PYSIDE-862 for review
- Some creativity to keep integrations going due to COIN issues
- Investigation of PYSIDE-803 is ongoing. The issue needs deep analysis to isolate the problem.


==== 17. January 2019 ====
===25. January 2024===
- Fixed PYSIDE-908, further investigation into PYSIDE-803 (free threading)
- QfP 5.12.1 release being prepared
- PYSIDE-797 (uic change ready for review)
- PYSIDE-862 (Qt RemoteObject module support)
- PYSIDE-634 being fixed
- started to look at true cross compilation (PYSIDE-802)
- Improving Qt Creator project template support (QTCREATORBUG-21824)


==== 10. January 2019 ====
* General
- Scope for Qt for Python 5.13 release
** Configuring additional embedded devices for RTA
  -> relevant tasks marked with Fixversion 5.13 in bugreports.qt.io
** Focus on spending some time on embedded linux, in order to see usability, and compatibility with Boot2Qt images.
  -> feature freeze for Qt for Python 5.13 (April 2019)
** Conferences: submissions to PyCon SK, PyCon DE, PyCon LT, PyCon US
- looked into case of corrupted meta data of wheel
* Infra & Releases
- supporting named arguments for signals
** Decouple of the commercial wheels in order to have a finer granularity and simpler tree on the Qt Installer (Maintenance Tool)
- some minimal support in Qt Creator to create a Qt for Python project
** Qt for Python 6.6.2 is waiting for Qt to be released (by the end of the month)
- bug hunting in 5.12.0 release
** The next 5.15.13 LTS open source release will include a new fix for a missing symbol (PyIndex_Check)
- working on Pyside-797
** New CI configuration without '--unity' for manual testing, to spot issues.
- further analysis of PYSIDE-803, working on an implementation plan
* Bugs & Features
** VS Code will use .flake8 (formerly setup.cfg) file for configuration once merged
** PYSIDE-2575: Added a new argument to QtAsyncio to configure whether the QCoreApplication at the core of QtAsyncio should be shut down when asyncio finishes (requested by user).
** SingleShot timer issue: Slight "complexity explosion" because correct implementation for one case requires implementation of QObject.connect overload with context arguments (and we implement QObject.connect ourselves, see PySide::qobjectConnectCallback).
** Scripting: code simplification, and massage it to a Qt module.
** Documentation updates to fix issues we had.
** Unity build some issues when building without.
** 6.7 updates, adapting some warning messages
** QTBUG-99313 related issues
** macOS permissions: made an example to work (for deployed apps) - patches incoming
** Android wheels provisioning and configuration in order to generate the base-wheels.
** armv7 complications due to an upstream find_python command.
** Lazy initialization: re-wrote approach from scratch, to reduce the patches to one that can be analyzed easily. Some complications with this approach that needs to be improve. It can be tried with https://codereview.qt-project.org/c/pyside/pyside-setup/+/496118
*** https://peps.python.org/pep-0690/ was rejected, but the idea can be implemented per-module
** Moving entry_points declaration to pyproject.toml from setup.py
** Drop the bdist_wheel steps from the CI (old wheels)
** Started working on split commercial wheels, wheels for QtDS and examples on QtCreator.


==== 3. January 2019 ====
===18. January 2024===
- Completed: Complete The Signature Introspection (PYSIDE-510)
- After the release there has been a couple of new reported bugs that we are working on:
  - There was some outdated documentation issue regarding Slots()
  - A couple of issues with multiple inheritance like: PYSIDE-868
  - and with QPlainTextEdit PYSIDE-886
- Restarted investigation of PYSIDE-803


== 2018 ==
* General
* Infra & Releases
** Commercial LTS 6.2.11 was released
** Add missing tags OSS LTS 5.15.x
** 6.6.2 scheduled by the end of the month
** Release documentation to be written to have tasks on JIRA
* Bugs & Features
** Python Scripting: looking into stable API, and cleanup
** PYSIDE-2577 doxygen issue
** PYSIDE-2570 closing some roadmap items
** Polishing documentation to use more sphinx directives
** Qt 6.7 adaption
** Addressing some flake8 issues in the build_script
** macOS permission API work continues: limitation for interpreted script, only compatible when deployed. Working around nuitka.
** singleShot: trying to solve a corner case when no sender is specified (for using the C++ function directly)
** Fixing some CI problems with 3.11 -> 3.12 changes.
** PYSIDE-2404 adding more information regarding the lazy evaluation, new approach might work.
** pyside6 is now an official recipe on the python-for-android!
** Improvements to the doc build process


* [[Qt for Python Development Notes 2018]]
===11. January 2024===
 
* General
** Hackathon at TQtC
** CI process presentation
* Infra & Releases
** Commercial LTS 6.5.4 release starting (to be finished today)
** Commercial LTS 6.2.11 still pending release
** 6.6.2 schedule by the end of the month.
** CI still showing some issues after the maintenance break.
** Update of the Python versions are pending.
* Bugs & Features
** Fixing a few small issues with QtAsyncio
** Documentation for the QtAsyncio is currently in review.
** New behavior for singleShot (relying on the C++ impl)
** macOS request permission API work continues.
** 6.7 adaptions patches
** M2M fixes on the current impl
** Native interfaces were added (new ones) to public headers
** favicon issue with out docs
** Making our doc diagram generation optional
** Improvements for the doc build process
 
===04.January 2024===
* General
** Happy new year fellow readers :D
** New OKR organization
** Keeping in an eye on Conferences
** PyPy is now on 3.10
** Ideas on the wheel organization for the Qt Installer
* Infra & Releases
** CI Maintenance break continues. Some new issues were discovered.
** Pending releases: 6.2.11 and 6.5.4
** Android [https://download.qt.io/snapshots/ci/pyside/test/Android/aarch64/ wheels for testing] purposes are available (not for production)
** Xcode issues with a new M3
** Planning the inclusion of Python 3.12 in the CI
* Bugs & Features
** async: A few bug fixes were pushed and ready for review
** async: the module is missing from our docs
** async: we have been getting some interests from users, so new issues are appearing.
** new android tag added to the examples for a better browsing
** pyside6 designer pyenv crash was fixed
** pyside cmake module update crash was fixed
** working on the request permission API for macOS
** docs: free functions as separate section and other improvements
** Python scripting in c++ works continues
** PyPy 3.10 compatibility patches
** nogil: working again on a compatibility with PEP703
*** locking mechanism for our modules.
** Typing adjustments, we need '/' in our signatures due to not having keywords parameters.
 
==2023==
 
*[[Qt for Python Development Notes 2023]]
 
==2022==
 
*[[Qt for Python Development Notes 2022]]
 
==2021==
 
*[[Qt for Python Development Notes 2021]]
 
==2020==
 
*[[Qt for Python Development Notes 2020]]
 
==2019==
 
*[[Qt for Python Development Notes 2019]]
 
==2018==
 
*[[Qt for Python Development Notes 2018]]

Revision as of 08:13, 16 May 2024


2024

23. May 2024

  • General
  • Infra & Releases
  • Bugs & Features

16. May 2024

  • General
  • Infra & Releases
    • 5.15.17 commercial lts needs to be re-packaged one more time due to 3rd party components updates.
    • 6.7.1 release will also be re-packed. LE for release is 20th of May
  • Bugs & Features
    • PYSIDE-2753 - Added missing libQt6DeclarativeOpcUa binary to wheels
    • PYSIDE-2750 - Added missing libQt6VirtualKeyboardSettings binary to wheels
    • Exclude .qsb, .webp, .cpp.o and .qen from deployment due to Nuitka error. Error report raised in Nuitka - https://github.com/Nuitka/Nuitka/issues/2854
    • Working on macOS cross compilation. The clang parser of shiboken generator needs some changes for cross compilation. Tricky changes incoming.
    • PYSIDE-2748 - Fixed a type hint error
    • PYSIDE-2747 - Diagnostics and minor fixes for a crash on Fedora, no real fix though
    • PYSIDE-2711 - Fixed a bug in QWidget/QObject.parent()
    • Work on type discovery in libshiboken, added helpers to dump internal state, performance considerations
    • PYSIDE-2620 - Adapting to 6.8

2. May 2024

  • General
    • OKR reviews for the next quarter.
    • Got a long document with feedback of a few tools we provided, that will help us improving our tooling!
    • Started the planning of moving away from '<file>.pyproject' to 'pyproject.toml' for pyside projects, in order to add options for our tools.
  • Infra & Releases
    • 5.15.17 commercial lts needs to be re-packaged due to 3rd party components updates.
    • 6.7.1 to be released next week.
    • Add new mechanism to test snapshot wheels.
  • Bugs & Features
    • PYSIDE-2698 - ListProperty features fixed. Added tests to check all the features.
    • PYSIDE-2705 - issues with signal disconnect warnings fixed
    • macOS cross compilation for Android - stuck on a CMake issue. Progressing well.
    • PYSIDE-2709 - Analysis ongoing for this QML registration regression
    • Work on improving/documenting type discovery in shiboken
    • Enumeration support in QtScrypt
    • PYSIDE-2676 - PEP 697 extension in Python 3.12 fixed
    • BT bug research, cannot be reproduced and application doesn't hang. Connection is not successful.
      • Issue might require special hw
    • Documenting QtAsyncio implementation details.
      • An internal presentation is being prepared.
    • Possible QtAsyncio feature, 'run' supporting context managers.
    • macOS cross compilation for android being tried


25. April 2024

  • General
    • Successful talk at PyCon DE. Good response.
  • Infra & Releases
    • Preparing 6.7.1
    • 5.15.17 Commercial LTS is also soon to be prepared
    • sccache seems to be not properly behaving (on windows) because we are not getting enough output.
    • PySide6_DS wheel to be adjusted and hopefully be released soon.
  • Bugs & Features
    • Added a number of new classes
    • PYSIDE-2676 issues on ubuntu (might be related to a windows issue as well)
    • Implementation of Lazy Groups in order to avoid the regression in 6.7.0 due to multiple inheritance.
    • Alternative for Lazy Groups (Fix for the regression on 6.7.0)
      • Work on regressions introduced by lazy initialization PYSIDE-2675
    • Work on a crash in Python 3.12 PYSIDE-2676
    • Fixed memory leaks PYSIDE-1617
    • Work on our QML list property support PYSIDE-2698
    • Added pyside6-balsamui (ui tool for pyside6-balsam) - PYSIDE-2629
    • Also checking out List Property error with `count` and `at` parameters - PYSIDE-2698
    • Updating old example (calqlatr) - https://codereview.qt-project.org/c/pyside/pyside-setup/+/523055 for responsive layout
    • QtAsyncio: refinements to the current implementation, and solved a bug report.
      • Trying to add support to Keyboard interruptions (handlers)
      • Plan to improve exceptions handling

18. April 2024

  • General
    • Bug fixing week
    • PyConDE (Mon-Wed next week)
    • Planning a workshop for TQtC solution engineers (internal)
    • Possibility to include shiboken into the Axivion infra
  • Infra & Releases
    • 5.15.17 commercial LTS was postponed to Friday. Still need test on Windows.
    • 6.5.6 release planned
    • 6.7.1 release has been postponed to the first week of May
    • DS-compatibility wheel postponed due to CI issues
    • We might need to create a testing platform in order to check other errors that are not detectable with simple tests.
  • Bugs & Features
    • Few new type hints issues from 6.7.0 release, needs to be address on 6.7.1
    • QtAsyncio issue related to Task groups. Tricky, because it can be related to Qt Events.
    • PYSIDE-2629 Adding more Qt-tools to the wheels
    • PYSIDE-2622 Adding a new option to the deploy tool (exposing an option from Nuitka)
    • PYSIDE-2675 Lazy loading issues with trees of polymorphic classes.
      • first approach made things less effective
      • The impact of the solution was reduced a bit, by disabling the feature for special multiple-inheritance cases
      • New idea on 'groups' that be handled differently, so we have group or classes grouped and dependant
    • 825 qml bug is still around
      • PYSIDE-2676 seems to be a new approach to fix it
    • A few customer bugs made it the bug fixing week.
    • PYSIDE-2675 type discovery code, class inheritance
    • QtAudio -> QAudio refactory
    • Virtual function compatibility to modify the signature (from typesystem)
    • PYSIDE-2492 uic issues for Enum compatibility
      • More improvements for Python projects (import options)
    • PYSIDE-2685 nan type definition
    • Removing code from shiboken
    • 6.8 Adaption already started
    • PYSIDE-2689 sphinx directives doesn't seems to be compatible with the search context.

11. April 2024

  • General
    • Bug fixing week.
    • Qt 6.6.3 Library split broke our release, so we provided 6.6.3.1 as a fix.
    • Qt 6.7.0 also had an issue with a binary incompatibility change on QtAudio and QAudio
    • Maybe we implement a simple channel of communicating this details, in order to avoid breakage [maybe architect meetings]
    • Qt Creator 13 creates venvs automatically. This needs to be revisited to avoid multiple environments to be created.
    • New epics with brainstorming ideas.
  • Infra & Releases
    • 6.7.0 was released, we found a couple of issues we are trying to solve, and 6.7.1 will soon be released due to a binary compatibility break, and other small breakage.
    • 5.15.17 commercial LTS to be release next week.
    • QtDS packages a bit delay due to CI errors.
    • Qt Installer (Maintenance tool) has still some issues with the structure.
  • Bugs & Features
    • Adding new Qt tools to the wheels (wrappers)
    • PYSIDE-2602 special virtual function research
    • PYSIDE-2669 designer issue
    • PYSIDE-2675 Addressing the lazy import issues that were found in 6.7.0
      • Studying the possible solution, but it needs to consider other cases as well.
      • the *-import handling seems to be related, and affecting the mro content, duplicating some entries.
      • the type discovery handler might be related as well
    • Still working on the qml 825 bug issues.

4. April 2024

  • General
    • Large part of the team at conferences/on Easter holiday
  • Infra & Releases
    • Released 6.6.3.1 release with fixes for Quick Controls/Multimedia
    • Preparing for 6.7.0
  • Bugs & Features

28. March 2024

  • General
  • Infra & Releases
    • Prepared 6.6.3.1 release; 6.6.3 was unfortunately broken due to missing libraries (Quick Controls/Multimedia)
  • Bugs & Features
    • PYSIDE-2654 Fixed multiple inheritance when no __init__ is in a subclass
    • Still investigating a crash on Ubuntu with Python 3.12 and bug_825.py . The crash is deeply hiding in Qt6.
    • PYSIDE-2652 Fixed an int overflow
    • PYSIDE-2649 Work on building without OpenGL
    • PYSIDE-2653 Fixed a syntax error in type hints

21. March 2024

  • General
    • Ideas to improve the module.
    • Most of the team is going on vacation the following weeks.
  • Infra & Releases
    • 6.7.0 to be released the first week of April [delayed]
    • 6.2.12 Commercial LTS to be release in the following days [delayed]
    • 6.6.3 to be release next week [delayed]
  • Bugs & Features
    • 6.8 adaption patches are being worked
    • PYSIDE-2638 fix crash QLayout when None is passed
    • Documentation updates: for tooling and examples.
    • QtRhi missing API provided
    • Memory leak regression being worked out
    • Shiboken Qt namespaces patches being cherry picked to previous versions.
    • Android deployment and qml tool documentations
    • Android wheels generation on the CI process is being improved.
    • Debugging deep into Nuitka to understand a problem with the lazy loading functionality.
    • QAsyncio bug fixed
    • Adding more tools docs pages for our tools.

14. March 2024

  • General
  • Infra & Releases
    • 6.7.0 in preparation, docs adjustments and new pages will come. Branching on Monday.
    • 6.2.12 LTS release in preparation.
    • 6.6.3 will be release next week.
    • qtpip 0.1.1 to be released
    • dev is already Python 3.8 free, and we support 3.9+ for 6.7+
  • Bugs & Features
    • Triaging and fixing issues in general: 2638 layout crash.
    • PYSIDE-2690 namespaces support continues
    • Lazy initialization got merged
      • New improvements might land in future versions
    • PYSIDE-2635 OpcUA example problem
    • PYSIDE-2633 remoteobjects issue
    • Using new icons on the examples
    • Testing libclang 18
    • QObject.connect bug when a callable is a QObject (workaround with manual overload)
    • QIOPipe implementation for QAsyncio (base in the Qt/C++ one)
    • New use cases for QAsyncio and aiohttp
    • permission API changes got merge
    • android wheel compilation was adapted for qt 6.7.0 (PR on python-for-android was merged)
    • PYSIDE-1639 QLocale issue was fixed

07. March 2024

  • General
    • Participation in FOSS Backstage
  • Infra & Releases
    • 6.5.5 Commercial LTS was released
    • 5.15.13 OSS Package will be released tomorrow
    • qtpip 0.1.1 release delayed
    • Python 3.8 deprecation is still pending due to CI configuration dependencies.
  • Bugs & Features
    • permission api changes are mostly merged, one pending https://codereview.qt-project.org/c/pyside/pyside-setup/+/536759/15
    • all deployment fixes are in.
    • lazy initialization work continues, and some issues were fixed already.
      • Ubuntu 22.04 | Python 3.10.2 |is showing an issue with scriptableapplication
    • Continue implementing more API for QtAsyncio which is currently working well
    • two pending change for 6.7.0 and 6.6.3 to be merged.
    • PYSIDE-2590 qt namespaces support required a patch for Qt/C++
    • PYSIDE-2619 gentoo issue with a build
    • PYSIDE-2624 typing issue with '/' is being researched
    • Qt Icon Teams issues were discovered
    • PYSIDE-2602 virtual function research on a special signature
    • One regression related to the QObject.connect changes.

29. February 2024

  • General
    • Leap day!
    • Documentation changes
  • Infra & Releases
    • 6.7.0 will drop support of Python 3.8
    • 6.5.5 to be released in the following days
    • 6.7.0 RC marks our feature freeze, some exceptions will be discussed in order to release on time.
    • qtpip 0.1.1 to be released soon for new indexing and shiboken_wizard package
    • General update of Python versions in our CI configuration is being planned (for dev-6.7)
  • Bugs & Features
    • PYSIDE-2599 QMatrix3x3 issues with QVariant
    • PYSIDE-2605 Embedding an application, using .style() - qAPP
    • PYSIDE-2590 QT_NAMESPACES support
    • PYSIDE-2602 clash on signature for QtWebEngine returning tuple
    • Preparing 6.5.5 and 6.7.0 releases.
    • PYSIDE-2612 CMake issue from Anaconda builds when find_package
    • macOS permissions changes are almost all merged
    • Windows BTLE services crash
    • QIO-class are required for some new QAsyncio API using pipes
    • Lazy loading moving forward, but still a few issues are around
      • A couple of shiboken tests seems to have outdated imports that are not helping.
      • shiboken compatibility types missing
    • Typing issues being solved in order to improve the pyi quality

22. February 2024

  • General
    • Brainstorming discussion about new JIRA items.
  • Infra & Releases
    • 6.6.2 was released!
    • qtpip getting a new minor version in order to be able to install new shiboken wizard
  • Bugs & Features
    • Permission API issue failing on the release framework. QtLocation problems were addressed.
    • QtAsyncio blog post was published.
    • Definition of done for QtAsyncio story, some functions will be implemented, but other ones (until reaching the whole set of user facing API) will be implemented in the future.
    • Lazy initialization of numpy support in PySide, to improve the general lazy loading effort.
    • Starting documenting pyside6-* tools
    • PYSIDE-2610 Qt3D issues
    • 6.7 adaption was a lot of work, namespaces were something tricky.
    • 6.7 changelog drafted.
    • Started to improve the type hinting issues.

15. February 2024

  • General
    • Brainstorming session was held.
    • Europython Call for Proposal is open!
  • Infra & Releases
    • 6.6.2 release waiting for Qt/C++ packages to be done.
    • Commercial 6.5.5 LTS to be out next week.
    • Some improvements to the CI and macOS behavior
    • Cherry pick bot on commercial repositories.
  • Bugs & Features
    • singleShot changes are merged, keep an eye on strange behavior.
    • 6.7 adaption: metaobjectdump improvements
    • 6.6.2 fixes with the commercial shibokenwizard
    • lupdate support for pyside improved (qm files)
    • pyside6-project problems with dry-run were fixed. Some improvements planned.
    • CI android wheels upgrade [skip armv7 in the meantime]
    • Lazy imports research continues, we see lots of improvements on apple M* devices.


8. February 2024

  • General
    • We got a PyConDE 2024 talk accepted (python -> android deployment)!
  • Infra & Releases
    • Addressing some issues with the android wheels
    • 6.6.2 got delayed until next week
    • Preparing for the 6.7 switch on dev
  • Bugs & Features
    • macOS: permission api patches ready for review
    • singleShot patches merged
    • Lazy initialization was finished, and ready for discussion.
    • Check compatibility with the new REST module (from Qt/C++)
    • Preparations for 6.7 continues.

1. February 2024

  • General
    • Interest from KDE to enable flatpak packages (maybe base pyside app).
    • Discussion on adding more tutorials of specific functionality.
    • CI Maintenance Break next Monday (first Monday of each month)
  • Infra & Releases
    • no unity build discussion and checks
    • 6.6.2 to be released next week.
    • More granularity on the commercial wheels: shiboken wizard wheel.
  • Bugs & Features
    • singleShot timer implementation (to use underlying c++ impl) - still an issue with a context object, and a signal as a functor. A new QObject::connect might handle the situation. More changes to come in order to fix newly discovered issues.
    • Android: using the master branch on python-for-android, and other changes related for macOS deployment.
    • PYSIDE-2597 optimization for the deployment procedure
    • Lazy initialization: works continues, and it's looking good. 13 bugs to go on lazy mode. The new implementation seems to be working better.
    • 6.7 adaptation still in progress (many changes from Qt)
    • General documentation adjustments
    • Improvements on shiboken: better error messages
    • Qt Namespaces compatibility attempts.
    • Moving away from a couple of setup.py options towards pyproject.toml after upgrading 'build' to 1.0.x
    • Design Studio compatibility wheel work continues


25. January 2024

  • General
    • Configuring additional embedded devices for RTA
    • Focus on spending some time on embedded linux, in order to see usability, and compatibility with Boot2Qt images.
    • Conferences: submissions to PyCon SK, PyCon DE, PyCon LT, PyCon US
  • Infra & Releases
    • Decouple of the commercial wheels in order to have a finer granularity and simpler tree on the Qt Installer (Maintenance Tool)
    • Qt for Python 6.6.2 is waiting for Qt to be released (by the end of the month)
    • The next 5.15.13 LTS open source release will include a new fix for a missing symbol (PyIndex_Check)
    • New CI configuration without '--unity' for manual testing, to spot issues.
  • Bugs & Features
    • VS Code will use .flake8 (formerly setup.cfg) file for configuration once merged
    • PYSIDE-2575: Added a new argument to QtAsyncio to configure whether the QCoreApplication at the core of QtAsyncio should be shut down when asyncio finishes (requested by user).
    • SingleShot timer issue: Slight "complexity explosion" because correct implementation for one case requires implementation of QObject.connect overload with context arguments (and we implement QObject.connect ourselves, see PySide::qobjectConnectCallback).
    • Scripting: code simplification, and massage it to a Qt module.
    • Documentation updates to fix issues we had.
    • Unity build some issues when building without.
    • 6.7 updates, adapting some warning messages
    • QTBUG-99313 related issues
    • macOS permissions: made an example to work (for deployed apps) - patches incoming
    • Android wheels provisioning and configuration in order to generate the base-wheels.
    • armv7 complications due to an upstream find_python command.
    • Lazy initialization: re-wrote approach from scratch, to reduce the patches to one that can be analyzed easily. Some complications with this approach that needs to be improve. It can be tried with https://codereview.qt-project.org/c/pyside/pyside-setup/+/496118
    • Moving entry_points declaration to pyproject.toml from setup.py
    • Drop the bdist_wheel steps from the CI (old wheels)
    • Started working on split commercial wheels, wheels for QtDS and examples on QtCreator.

18. January 2024

  • General
  • Infra & Releases
    • Commercial LTS 6.2.11 was released
    • Add missing tags OSS LTS 5.15.x
    • 6.6.2 scheduled by the end of the month
    • Release documentation to be written to have tasks on JIRA
  • Bugs & Features
    • Python Scripting: looking into stable API, and cleanup
    • PYSIDE-2577 doxygen issue
    • PYSIDE-2570 closing some roadmap items
    • Polishing documentation to use more sphinx directives
    • Qt 6.7 adaption
    • Addressing some flake8 issues in the build_script
    • macOS permission API work continues: limitation for interpreted script, only compatible when deployed. Working around nuitka.
    • singleShot: trying to solve a corner case when no sender is specified (for using the C++ function directly)
    • Fixing some CI problems with 3.11 -> 3.12 changes.
    • PYSIDE-2404 adding more information regarding the lazy evaluation, new approach might work.
    • pyside6 is now an official recipe on the python-for-android!
    • Improvements to the doc build process

11. January 2024

  • General
    • Hackathon at TQtC
    • CI process presentation
  • Infra & Releases
    • Commercial LTS 6.5.4 release starting (to be finished today)
    • Commercial LTS 6.2.11 still pending release
    • 6.6.2 schedule by the end of the month.
    • CI still showing some issues after the maintenance break.
    • Update of the Python versions are pending.
  • Bugs & Features
    • Fixing a few small issues with QtAsyncio
    • Documentation for the QtAsyncio is currently in review.
    • New behavior for singleShot (relying on the C++ impl)
    • macOS request permission API work continues.
    • 6.7 adaptions patches
    • M2M fixes on the current impl
    • Native interfaces were added (new ones) to public headers
    • favicon issue with out docs
    • Making our doc diagram generation optional
    • Improvements for the doc build process

04.January 2024

  • General
    • Happy new year fellow readers :D
    • New OKR organization
    • Keeping in an eye on Conferences
    • PyPy is now on 3.10
    • Ideas on the wheel organization for the Qt Installer
  • Infra & Releases
    • CI Maintenance break continues. Some new issues were discovered.
    • Pending releases: 6.2.11 and 6.5.4
    • Android wheels for testing purposes are available (not for production)
    • Xcode issues with a new M3
    • Planning the inclusion of Python 3.12 in the CI
  • Bugs & Features
    • async: A few bug fixes were pushed and ready for review
    • async: the module is missing from our docs
    • async: we have been getting some interests from users, so new issues are appearing.
    • new android tag added to the examples for a better browsing
    • pyside6 designer pyenv crash was fixed
    • pyside cmake module update crash was fixed
    • working on the request permission API for macOS
    • docs: free functions as separate section and other improvements
    • Python scripting in c++ works continues
    • PyPy 3.10 compatibility patches
    • nogil: working again on a compatibility with PEP703
      • locking mechanism for our modules.
    • Typing adjustments, we need '/' in our signatures due to not having keywords parameters.

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