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== 2020 ==


==2024==


==== 8. October 2020 ====
===23. May 2024===
* General
* Infra & Releases
* Bugs & Features


* Infra
===16. May 2024===
** Timeouts maybe when the test_wheel hangs?
* General
** Cache the wheels we install for the installation process, somehow.
* Infra & Releases
* PYSIDE-827 Commands help
** 5.15.17 commercial lts needs to be re-packaged one more time due to 3rd party components updates.
** Complicated refactoring, but it's waiting for review atm.
** 6.7.1 release will also be re-packed. LE for release is 20th of May
* Bugs fix
* Bugs & Features
** export macro issue
** [https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-2753 PYSIDE-2753] - Added missing libQt6DeclarativeOpcUa binary to wheels
** experiment with QtConcurrent PYSIDE-1202
** [https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-2750 PYSIDE-2750] - Added missing libQt6VirtualKeyboardSettings binary to wheels
** PYSIDE-1098 getframe was not properly working with 1 as argument.
** 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
** (on hold for Qt6) PYSIDE-1019 Properties modified for static ones
** Working on macOS cross compilation. The clang parser of shiboken generator needs some changes for cross compilation. Tricky changes incoming.
** fix static string leak
** [https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-2748 PYSIDE-2748] - Fixed a type hint error
** PYSIDE-1128 QScintilla research
** [https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-2747 PYSIDE-2747] - Diagnostics and minor fixes for a crash on Fedora, no real fix though
* Qt 6 efforts
** [https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-2711 PYSIDE-2711] - Fixed a bug in QWidget/QObject.parent()
** Fixing tests, and more.
** 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


==== 1. October 2020 ====
===2. May 2024===


* Infra
* General
** Still the 'usual' timeouts while installing Python requirements. Maybe we could fix this?
** OKR reviews for the next quarter.
* Documentation
** Got a long document with feedback of a few tools we provided, that will help us improving our tooling!
** Access .qch documentations files offline - https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/QTWEBSITE-944
** Started the planning of moving away from '<file>.pyproject' to 'pyproject.toml' for pyside projects, in order to add options for our tools.
** Documentation fixes related to RST syntax and code snippets.
* Infra & Releases
* Bug fixing
** 5.15.17 commercial lts needs to be re-packaged due to 3rd party components updates.
** [https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-31 PYSIDE-31] no news, postponed
** 6.7.1 to be released next week.
** [https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-1075 PYSIDE-1075] Fixed
** Add new mechanism to test snapshot wheels.
** [https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-1326 PYSIDE-1326] Fix ready
* Bugs & Features
* Features
** [https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-2698 PYSIDE-2698] - ListProperty features fixed. Added tests to check all the features.
** [https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-1019 PYSIDE-1019] property support ready for Python property.
** [https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-2705 PYSIDE-2705] - issues with signal disconnect warnings fixed
** PYSIDE-1019 Property almost completely rewritten to pass the Python tests. Almost done.
** macOS cross compilation for Android - stuck on a CMake issue. Progressing well.
** PYSIDE-1019 shiboken: It is also possible to have properties for projects not using the PySide2 extension
** [https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-2709 PYSIDE-2709] - Analysis ongoing for this QML registration regression
* Qt6 Port
** Work on improving/documenting type discovery in shiboken
** Still adapting API changes
** Enumeration support in QtScrypt
* Extras
** [https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-2676 PYSIDE-2676] - PEP 697 extension in Python 3.12 fixed
** PySide Property turned out to be quite incompatible with Python properties.
** BT bug research, cannot be reproduced and application doesn't hang. Connection is not successful.
** Ready to implement static Property.
*** Issue might require special hw
** We might get some QA related help for the whole project :)
** Documenting QtAsyncio implementation details.
** We will continue with  adding the command line options to the build/install steps
*** An internal presentation is being prepared.
** Possible QtAsyncio feature, 'run' supporting context managers.
** macOS cross compilation for android being tried


==== 24. September 2020 ====


* Infra
===25. April 2024===
** One strange error related to PYSIDE-1388
* General
** Trying to merge the change to test 3.8.1 on Windows too
** Successful talk at PyCon DE. Good response.
* Bug fixing spree
* Infra & Releases
** PYSIDE-1017
** Preparing 6.7.1
** PYSIDE-1224
** 5.15.17 Commercial LTS is also soon to be prepared
** PYSIDE-665
** sccache seems to be not properly behaving (on windows) because we are not getting enough output.
** PYSIDE-1388
** PySide6_DS wheel to be adjusted and hopefully be released soon.
* Qt6 progress
* Bugs & Features
** QML was working for some period
** Added a number of new classes
** Qt3D compiling
** PYSIDE-2676 issues on ubuntu (might be related to a windows issue as well)
* overloadID feature for typesystems (order of overloads)
** Implementation of Lazy Groups in order to avoid the regression in 6.7.0 due to multiple inheritance.
* PYSIDE-68
** Alternative for Lazy Groups (Fix for the regression on 6.7.0)
* Simplyfying the signature module
*** Work on regressions introduced by lazy initialization [https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-2675 PYSIDE-2675]
** motivated by the feature support
** Work on a crash in Python 3.12 [https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-2676 PYSIDE-2676]
* PYSIDE-31
** Fixed memory leaks [https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-1617 PYSIDE-1617]
* Research Options update, replacing the ad-hoc class with argparse
** Work on our QML list property support [https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-2698 PYSIDE-2698]
** Include patch that display custom options into the distutils implementation
** 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


==== 17. September 2020 ====
===18. April 2024===


* 5.15.1 released
* General
* Qt 6 efforts
** Bug fixing week
* Properties features submitted [https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-1019 PYSIDE-1019]
** PyConDE (Mon-Wed next week)
* Bug fixing efforts, provided work arounds or fixes for
** Planning a workshop for TQtC solution engineers (internal)
** [https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-972 PYSIDE-972]
** Possibility to include shiboken into the Axivion infra
** [https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-1212 PYSIDE-1212]
* Infra & Releases
** [https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-1354 PYSIDE-1354]
** 5.15.17 commercial LTS was postponed to Friday. Still need test on Windows.
** [https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-1367 PYSIDE-1367]
** 6.5.6 release planned
** [https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-1381 PYSIDE-1381]
** 6.7.1 release has been postponed to the first week of May
** [https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-1383 PYSIDE-1383]
** 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.


==== 10. September 2020 ====
===11. April 2024===
* 5.15.1 release waiting for final
* General
** blog post about some features
** Bug fixing week.
* Try a new python version on the CI
** Qt 6.6.3 Library split broke our release, so we provided 6.6.3.1 as a fix.
* Qt 6 efforts
** Qt 6.7.0 also had an issue with a binary incompatibility change on QtAudio and QAudio
** Adding back the tools (uic/rcc)
** Maybe we implement a simple channel of communicating this details, in order to avoid breakage [maybe architect meetings]
** New feature shiboken overload order
** Qt Creator 13 creates venvs automatically. This needs to be revisited to avoid multiple environments to be created.
** Waiting for the properties features before moving 5.15 to cherry pick mode
** New epics with brainstorming ideas.
** Major changes will get into dev as soon as we move 5.15 to cherry pick.
* Infra & Releases
* Review repeated overloads from a Python point of view and remove the unnecesary ones.
** 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.
* PYSIDE-74 is fixed, and now every object will have a __ne__ and __eq__
** 5.15.17 commercial LTS to be release next week.
* testing:  Ensure that build dir precedes site-packages.
** QtDS packages a bit delay due to CI errors.
* Writable properties is still in development, and closer to be done
** Qt Installer (Maintenance tool) has  still some issues with the structure.  
** what do we do with the internal pyside properties? TBD
* Bugs & Features
* Akademy 2020 participation
** Adding new Qt tools to the wheels (wrappers)
** GNU Health uses PySide2!
** PYSIDE-2602 special virtual function research
** Kirigami for Python users
** 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.


==== 3. September 2020 ====
===4. April 2024===
* Infra update
* General
** libclang 10 issue, we need a shared library, but the latest had static only.
** Large part of the team at conferences/on Easter holiday
*** Using the QtCreator one solved the issue.
* Infra & Releases
** snapshots wheels broken atm
** Released 6.6.3.1 release with fixes for Quick Controls/Multimedia
** Plan for 5.15.1
** Preparing for 6.7.0
* True properties
* Bugs & Features
** make static properties needed around 10% of the cases, it collides with limited api.
** [https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-2646 PYSIDE-2646] Improved cleanup of signal manager objects
** new corner case for non-standard properties.
** [https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-2662 PYSIDE-2662] Fix for a signal in OpcUA
** Use in runtime the information from the Meta Object.
** [https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-2663 PYSIDE-2663] Fixed a crash in webengine bindings
* Bug fixes
** [https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-2668 PYSIDE-2668] Fixed an error in enums
** https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-1177 __doc__
** Doc build regression
** Nuitka compatibility
* Qt6 related work
** Adapting the latest state of qtbase
** Simplify our CMakeLists files to use what is provided by libclang
* QML breakage with the latest state of dev


==== 27. August 2020 ====
===28. March 2024===
* Infra update
* General
** Waiting on confirmation for 5.15.1 release
* Infra & Releases
** Discard mingw config
** Prepared 6.6.3.1 release; 6.6.3 was unfortunately broken due to missing libraries (Quick Controls/Multimedia)
** Include a Linux 64bit Python 3.8.x config
* Bugs & Features
* True property features
** [https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-2654 PYSIDE-2654] Fixed multiple inheritance when no __init__ is in a subclass
** Basic implementation in-place with shiboken support.
** Still investigating a crash on Ubuntu with Python 3.12 and bug_825.py . The crash is deeply hiding in Qt6.
** Tackling errors from the parser
** [https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-2652 PYSIDE-2652] Fixed an int overflow
** The data from ApiExtractor should be improved
** [https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-2649 PYSIDE-2649] Work on building without OpenGL
** Pending tasks: (1) Support for static properties (~20-30), (2) add missing properties via some heuristic, maybe adding support for the typesystem special entries, and (3) improve support for the signature model.
** [https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-2653 PYSIDE-2653] Fixed a syntax error in type hints
* Bugs fixing
** Many old bugs closed, due to being fixed or invalid in newer versions.
** Prioritization plan for some of the remaining
** Important bug for the project https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-478 we need a better error propagation.
* lupdate compatibility delayed
* QML interaction
** ListProperty was heavily improved, adding missing argument options and checks.


===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.


==== 20. August 2020 ====
===14. March 2024===
* Infra update
* General
** Fix for virtualenv problems on RedHat.
** PyConDE schedule is out, don't miss Shyam's talk https://pretalx.com/pyconde-pydata-2024/talk/W7YDRX/
** Speed issues on the CI
** Python 3.13.0a5 is out.
** we still require a libclang update.
* Infra & Releases
** Waiting for a date for 5.15.1
** 6.7.0 in preparation, docs adjustments and new pages will come. Branching on Monday.
* (in progress) https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-1019 (features properties)
** 6.2.12 LTS release in preparation.
* (in progress) https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-1328 (static/dyn methods)
** 6.6.3 will be release next week.
* Qt6 changes
** qtpip 0.1.1 to be released
** QStringRef replacement by QStringView
** dev is already Python 3.8 free, and we support 3.9+ for 6.7+
** Fixing broken tests
* Bugs & Features
* Discussion around https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-1363
** Triaging and fixing issues in general: 2638 layout crash.
** We could generate manylinux2014 wheels.
** PYSIDE-2690 namespaces support continues
* Fixed some issues with ListProperty on the QML integration :)
** 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


==== 13. August 2020 ====
===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.


* Infra update
===29. February 2024===
** dev is still open for direct submit.
** libclang 10 update keeps waiting fixes to qttools.
** The python3.8 test will get amended later today.
* Bug fixing
** Missing classes
** 3D related
** pyi incomplete
** QmlComponent deadlock
* (in progress) Qt Property access
** Issues with the binding manager (functions inside properties)
** The feature switching needs to be slower (no features, snake_case, etc)
* Planned work on 3.9 compatibility
* QML ListProperty in dev is broken


==== 6. August 2020 ====
* 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


* Infra update
===22. February 2024===
** libclang versioning issues (we need 8+, we have 6)
* General
** Adding Python 3.8.1 for Python (needs review)
** Brainstorming discussion about new JIRA items.
* Research for commercial opportunities
* Infra & Releases
* (in progress) Qt Property access
** 6.6.2 was released!
** prototype waiting for review
** qtpip getting a new minor version in order to be able to install new shiboken wizard
** some complications with inherited attributes/properties
* Bugs & Features
** Class properties are a complication, since we need to make a difference with instance properties.
** Permission API issue failing on the release framework. QtLocation problems were addressed.
* (in progress) Shiboken initialization more verbose
** QtAsyncio blog post was published.
** for Freezing tools.
** 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.
* Check for signature/stubs documentation.
** 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.


==== 30. July 2020 ====
===15. February 2024===


* No meeting
* 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.


==== 23. July 2020 ====


* Infra update
===8. February 2024===
** 5.15 and dev -> Python 3.8.1 (Windows) => Working
** Some issues with some images.
* (needs review) Selectable features
** New example to test
** AL Completion issues
** signal/slots will remain camelCase at the moment.
* (in progress) Python 3.9 compatibility
** Signature module requires some work.
* (in progress) Qt 6 porting
** Issues with templates in Qt6
** QByteArrayView might be an issue
** Documentation needs qttools, it might work with cmake/qt6
* (in progress) QML interaction
** qmlRegisterSingletonType ready
** qmlRegisterUncreatableType is the next step


==== 16. July 2020 ====
* 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.


* Infra update
===1. February 2024===
** Updates on the Windows VM template to get some optimization.
** Getting Python 3.8.1 on Windows to test the latest minor version.
* (in progress) Selectable features
** COIN issues after the history log deletion (prune)
** Issues with the initialization on scriptableapplication (patch on gerrit)
* (in progress) PySide 6
** Progress being done in Windows and macOS
* QML update (on dev -> Qt6)
** Removed the limit to 50 types https://codereview.qt-project.org/c/pyside/pyside-setup/+/307424
** qmlRegisterSingletonType patch waiting for review https://codereview.qt-project.org/c/pyside/pyside-setup/+/307908


==== 9. July 2020 ====
* 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


* Infra update
** 5.14 issues related to virtualenv (but 5.14.2 works)
** dev is open for direct merges.
** 5.14.2.3 macOS needs review to be released.
** sdist packages WIP patch.
* Python 3.9b4 is out and we will try it out.
* (in progress) Selectable features
** new corner cases were found, so they are being tackled.
* (in progress) access Qt properties directly
** decide which are the properties at runtime.
** Maybe sources/pyside2/PySide2/global.h.in:41 can help
*** #define QT_ANNOTATE_ACCESS_SPECIFIER(a) __attribute__((annotate(#a)))
* (in progress) Qt6 compatibility
** Dealing with test failures.
** Issues OpenGLWidgets
** We need to update the MetaType registration mechanisms to start working on QML register types


===25. January 2024===


==== 2. July 2020 ====
* 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
*** 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.


* Infra Update
===18. January 2024===
** Timeouts issues, increasing it is not a solution.
** How to proceed with dev to use Qt6
*** merge without CI
*** clarify the yaml configuration
** 5.14.2.3 new release planned
* Selectable Features
** snake_case for camelCase names.
** (in progress) access Qt properties directly:
*** For 'label = QLabel("hello")', we could do 'label.text = "bye"' instead of using the 'label.setText("bye")'.
* Qt6 compatibility
** QML working on Linux (this will enable us to work on the registration)
* Some improvements in the documentation generation must be done to speed up the process.
* pyside2_config.py file to CMake
** include XConfig.cmake files on the wheel
* sdist package
** nice to have: pip install -e ., but at the moment we have three egg-info directories (error)
* Starting again with the cross compilation of PySide for embedded linux.
==== 25. June 2020 ====


* Infra update
* General
** Release of the second set of Windows 64bit wheels.
* Infra & Releases
** Issues on the CI due to some internal issues, everything should be running soon.
** Commercial LTS 6.2.11 was released
* (in progress) from __future__ import newapi
** Add missing tags OSS LTS 5.15.x
** it's tricky to provide snake_case instead of camelCase
** 6.6.2 scheduled by the end of the month
** issues with tp_getattro
** Release documentation to be written to have tasks on JIRA
** creating modified Python objects to replace the original types at runtime
* Bugs & Features
* (in progress) from __future__ import newproperties
** Python Scripting: looking into stable API, and cleanup
** Still many things to go
** PYSIDE-2577 doxygen issue
* PYSIDE-1282 pthread crash solved, and will be merge in 5.14
** PYSIDE-2570 closing some roadmap items
* Indentation fixes for generated code. Prefix adaptation for a standard format so it can be loaded in QtCreator (from warning and stuff)
** Polishing documentation to use more sphinx directives
* Qt for Python 6 is partially working in some platforms
** Qt 6.7 adaption
** Still many missing modules,
** Addressing some flake8 issues in the build_script
** CMakeLists.txt files needs some love,
** macOS permission API work continues: limitation for interpreted script, only compatible when deployed. Working around nuitka.
** Needs to adapt CI for the new dev branch
** singleShot: trying to solve a corner case when no sender is specified (for using the C++ function directly)
** Windows has some issues still :)
** Fixing some CI problems with 3.11 -> 3.12 changes.
* libclang situation, are we sharing the same version for qdoc, qtcreator, qt, etc...?
** PYSIDE-2404 adding more information regarding the lazy evaluation, new approach might work.
** Need to check in case we decide to update
** pyside6 is now an official recipe on the python-for-android!
* Commercial wheels split progress
** Improvements to the doc build process


==== 18. June 2020 ====
===11. January 2024===


* Infra update
* General
** The new windows wheels still had some issues, it seems the latest are OK, and we would need to publish '_2' wheels.
** Hackathon at TQtC
** Some issues with macOS builds for 5.15.0
** CI process presentation
* Qt6 compatibility
* Infra & Releases
** This is stopping the improvements in the QML integration story
** Commercial LTS 6.5.4 release starting (to be finished today)
** We need this merged before continuing https://codereview.qt-project.org/c/qt/qtbase/+/301979
** Commercial LTS 6.2.11 still pending release
* Merged a bug fix to 5.12 (the CI was not broken)
** 6.6.2 schedule by the end of the month.
* (in progress) Qt6 Properties camelCase to lower_case
** CI still showing some issues after the maintenance break.
** Not a trivial task
** Update of the Python versions are pending.
** It's possible to rename dynamically functions, and other things.
* Bugs & Features
** Containers needs to be taken care too
** Fixing a few small issues with QtAsyncio
** Having more than one object with the same ID is challenging
** Documentation for the QtAsyncio is currently in review.
** Issues with str based objects
** New behavior for singleShot (relying on the C++ impl)
* Fixed PYSIDE-1332, PYSIDE-1327
** macOS request permission API work continues.
* (in progress) Commercial wheel are almost ready on Linux, later some changes for Windows and macOS are required.
** 6.7 adaptions patches
* (in progress) WigglyWidget example almost there
** M2M fixes on the current impl
* (in progress) New StyleSheet tutorial.
** Native interfaces were added (new ones) to public headers
==== 11. June 2020 ====
** favicon issue with out docs
** Making our doc diagram generation optional
** Improvements for the doc build process


* Infra Update
===04.January 2024===
** MSVC 2019 DLL issue with 5.15.0, we shipped a DLL that was too new. (https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-1323)
* General
** A new set of wheels will be available for Windows users (without a modern MSVC)
** Happy new year fellow readers :D
* QEnum implementation
** New OKR organization
** Waiting for review
** Keeping in an eye on Conferences
** Qt5 compatible
** PyPy is now on 3.10
** QFlag is also exposed
** Ideas on the wheel organization for the Qt Installer
* Research: Qt6 Properties camelCase to lower_case
* Infra & Releases
** https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-1019
** CI Maintenance break continues. Some new issues were discovered.
* Started to fix missing types information: https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-1318
** Pending releases: 6.2.11 and 6.5.4
* Fix memory leaks in property accesors (https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-1321),
** Android [https://download.qt.io/snapshots/ci/pyside/test/Android/aarch64/ wheels for testing] purposes are available (not for production)  
* Fix code generation bugs (https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-1325)
** Xcode issues with a new M3
* Incremental wheels
** Planning the inclusion of Python 3.12 in the CI
* Missing pyside2uic features
* Bugs & Features
* Backports for 5.12
** async: A few bug fixes were pushed and ready for review
** Ask Gerrit admins
** async: the module is missing from our docs
** Try one last patch.
** 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.


==== 4. June 2020 ====
==2023==


* CI Update
*[[Qt for Python Development Notes 2023]]
** Limited API reports work
** Improve integrations on macOS
* Documentation updates for Qt Assistant
* PYSIDE-1257 cx_Freeze issues seems to be related to cx_Freeze itself.
* Q_ENUM and QFlag will be soon available.
* New Shiboken example to expose a custom Qt Widget to Python
* loadUiType is back into PySide (relies on pyside2-uic on PATH)
* Other bug fixes.


==== 28. May 2020 ====
==2022==
* Releases
** 5.15.0 and 5.14.2.2 were released :) https://www.qt.io/blog/qt-for-python-5.15.0-is-out
** Thoughts about 5.14.2.3
** 5.15.1 release is still not defined
* Documentation
* CI Status
** The limited-api check was somehow bypass by one specific patch https://codereview.qt-project.org/c/pyside/pyside-setup/+/298845 We need to keep an eye to avoid this in the future.
* Backlog status [https://bugreports.qt.io/secure/RapidBoard.jspa?rapidView=262&view=planning.nodetail&selectedIssue=PYSIDE-463&issueLimit=100 check it here]
* QML Integration update
** We are working on finishing the implementation of Q_ENUM, to be able to use the singletonType registration
** Additionally, we are looking into the uncreatableType registration too.
* Development branch for Qt6
** We need the following before jumping into dev.
*** QList/QVector
*** QString -> integrated (clarity)


==== 21. May 2020 ====
*[[Qt for Python Development Notes 2022]]
* '''Holiday'''


==== 14. May 2020 ====
==2021==


* CI Updates
*[[Qt for Python Development Notes 2021]]
** CI blocked due to some provisioning issues in red hat
** 5.14.2.2 Release is on hold
** 5.15 commercial release in preparation
** License check
* 5.15 Release
** Pickling changes
** Examples
** loadUiType
* Tutorials rcc, designer
** Add project's tutorial.
* Continue research of using Qt6
* __qualname__ attributes are almost done
** This changes was required for the pickling support.


==== 7. May 2020 ====
==2020==
* CI Updates
** Issues with the provisioning, for example the connection with PyPi, still in progress.
** We will add a requirements.txt for provisioning.
* Issues
** PYSIDE-1255 Signal not reached in QML
** Pickling Qt Enums PYSIDE-15
*** Almost finished, but we are waiting for PYSIDE-1285 to be fix (modulename, qualname).
** Many other minor bugs have been fixed, but still there are a couple of strange ones.
** First attempts to build shiboken with Qt6
** Ideas repo re-organization
* Features
** Commercial addons
** Tutorials
*** rcc
*** uic
*** QTranslator (*)
*** ...
** QtAssistant integration
** loadUiType
** The new way of registering QML properties needs to be applied to the code base.


==== 30. April 2020 ====
*[[Qt for Python Development Notes 2020]]
* CI Updates
** Issues with pip upgrades
** Planning new Python versions for new configurations.
* Update on bugs still around after 5.14.2.1
** 1271: Deadlock (fixed)
** 1255: Signal not reached in QML (still in progress)
** 1280: Research
* Features
** QML interaction
** Q_ENUM and pickling SbkEnum
** Commercial Addons


==== 23. April 2020 ====
==2019==
* 5.14.2.1 Release
* New bugs around threading:
** https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-1271
** https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-1255 needs to be reopen.
* Documentation changes around the replacement of the old pysideuic module
* Q_ENUM update
** How to get a reference from the QMetaObjectBuilder without a QObject based project?
* mypy compatibility
** depends a bit on the Q_ENUM


==== 16. April 2020 ====
*[[Qt for Python Development Notes 2019]]


* Plan for 5.14.2-1 release
==2018==
* Research on Pickling support, PYSIDE-15
* Provided fix for PYSIDE-1267  related to efforts of exposing QScintilla
* Object dumper to help debugging python implementations
* Debugging options for the code model.
* pysideuic old functionality into the QUiTools module
** compileUI
** loadUiType
* Q_ENUM discussion


==== 9. April 2020 ====
*[[Qt for Python Development Notes 2018]]
 
* Most bugs reported in 5.14.2 are fix on 5.14
** Preparing the process for the release of 5.14.2-1
** Check about versioning on pypi to not override 5.14.2 wheels.
* PYSIDE-813 is now fixed
* PYSIDE-1255, Signals not being emitted.
* Working on Q_ENUM
 
==== 2. April 2020 ====
 
* 5.14.2 is out:
** keep an eye on new bug reports.
*** https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-1253
*** https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-1254
*** https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-1255
** The new documentation is out too: https://doc.qt.io/qtforpython/
* 'manylinux1' discussion
* CI status
* 'loadUiType' status https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-1223
** two approaches for it, a Python and another in C.
* PYSIDE-813
** Finding where the reference is gone, but there is the only issue left.
** All the other issues were solved.
** A solution should be out soon.
* Research on adding Python support for Qt's lupdate: PYSIDE-1252
 
==== 26. March 2020 ====
 
* 5.14.2 Release
* OKRs Update
** Looking for commercial opportunities
* PYSIDE-813 new discoveries found:
** There are a couple of issues with one of the PYSIDE-803 patches that will be solved soon.
** PYSIDE-164 is out of the picture
* Lambda functions for QWebEngineCallback PYSIDE-946 so we can expose the missing bindings.
* QVariant conversions tweaks PYSIDE-1250
* Working on adding 'loadUiType' into PySide PYSIDE-1223
* Research on adding Python support for Qt's lupdate: PYSIDE-1252
 
==== 19. March 2020 ====
 
* 5.14.2 Release preparations
* Work on Widget gallery example
* Done: Refinements to wheel-tester.py
* Done: Reworked test_wheel.py for macOS
* Done: Fixed PYSIDE-1247 signature warning in Python 3.6
* In progress: Instrumentation of PYSIDE-164/813
 
==== 12. March 2020 ====
 
* CI Status
** Everything up and running
** 5.14.2 to be released next week hopefully.
* PYSIDE-803
** Almost there!
** retrieveMetaObject improvements.
** We will try to test it without the allow-thread patch to evaluate performance.
* PYSIDE-813
** we will keep PYSIDE-164 open until we find a solution that fixes both.
* Starting to evaluate std::function compatibility with Shiboken.
 
==== 5. March 2020 ====
 
* CI Update
** Including Python 3.8
** Maybe using alternatives to have many Python versions.
* Priority bugs
** PYSIDE-803
*** major changes in (caching)
*** still other minor patches to be merged.
*** allow-thread patch has a bug, maybe this can be detach from the snippets one.
** PYSIDE-813
*** PYSIDE-164 appears again if we fix it,
*** Maybe a solution is to fix 164 in another way.
* 5.15 feature status
* Changes for Qt 6
** Changes in the [https://codereview.qt-project.org/c/qt/qtbase/+/284225 QMetaType representation]
*** Reference of the [https://codereview.qt-project.org/c/qt/qtdeclarative/+/285788 new system in qtdeclarative]
** Wishlist for [https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-904 Qt6 opportunities]
 
==== 27. February 2020 ====
 
* CI Updates
** 5.12 cherry-picks
* qApp
** Deprecation message or alias (when using QtWidgets.qApp)
* PYSIDE-803
** Missing patches to be merged
*** Python 2.7 issues
*** allow-thread commit message (add a changelog)
*** second caching mechanism to be studied after we merge the first set of patches.
*** Third attempt after the stackless gilstate approach
** Documentation
* Python 3.8 testing is still being worked out
 
==== 20. February 2020 ====
 
* CI Updates
** Cherry-picking some changes to 5.12 to fix the virtualenv 20 issues.
** macOS timeouts
** possibility of merging simple changes directly.
* qApp issues
** Patches ready for review
* PYSIDE-803
** Patches needs some polishing
* Testrunner improvements
** stdout/stderr issues with ctest on windows
** smart pointers tests crashing, due to qApp issues.
** Python 3.8 is also giving problems (DLLs missing)
** debug builds on windows does not work.
* Shiboken documentation being reorganized
* Starting testing Python 3.9
 
==== 13. February 2020 ====
 
* CI updates
** Windows package signing will be possible, hopefully soon.
* Documentation updates
** Example gallery
** WebChannel example merged,
* Python 3.8 changes on Windows are still being tackled.
* Bugs
** PYSIDE-803 status: A patch waiting for review is there, but we need to combine it with the other solutions we currently have. Still, there are some corner cases where the problem is not properly solved.
** qApp issues to be solved, but we will remove the import features. qApp will remain as a built-in.
* OKRS 1Q/2020
 
==== 6. February 2020 ====
 
* CI status and issues with the Qt provisioning 5.12
** 5.12.7 release will take more time to add new features.
** 5.14 has some issues with OpenGLFunctions.
* Documentation: Interest for the new shiboken2 documentation structure and usage of the ApiExtractor.
* Python 3.8 compatibility with older branches.
* Updates on PYSIDE-803 [https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-803?focusedCommentId=496894&page=com.atlassian.jira.plugin.system.issuetabpanels%3Acomment-tabpanel#comment-496894 link]
* Suggestion about iterations a-la-python https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-1216
* Events
** Qt World Summit 2020 Palm Springs
** PyCon US
 
==== 30. January 2020 ====
* 5.14.1 release rolling
* Work on [https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-1204 PYSIDE-1204]
* Work on [https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-1191 PYSIDE-1191] PySide2 5.14 source now builds against Qt 5.12 as well
* Further research on [https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-803 PYSIDE-803]
** full instrumentation of generated source for tracing,
** discovery of new hooks to support. Still in flux.
* Fixed some issues of Python 3.8 (most prominently warnings about implicit conversion to integers for QFlags), will be fixed in 5.14.2
* qApp macro [https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-1178 PYSIDE-1178] [https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-1158 PYSIDE-1158] [https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-1135 PYSIDE-1135] finally closed. One cleanup check in may follow.
 
==== 23. January 2020 ====
* Fix for CI/macOS problem is in, but it requires some merges in Qt5. Until all required merges are done, we will use Qt5 5.14.1 with Qt For Python 5.14
* Research on [https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-803 PYSIDE-803]
* Proposed an "until" attribute for typesystem files to make it possible to build Pyside 5.14 against Qt 5.12  [https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-1195 PYSIDE-1195]
* Improved the view of compare app for [https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-803 PYSIDE-803]
* Analysis of PyQt5 and SIP implementation
 
==== 16. January 2020 ====
* CI/macOS problems are being worked.
* qApp fix waiting to be merged.
* first attempts to tackle [https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-803 PYSIDE-803]
* Python 3.8 fix to old branches is required for distributions using 5.12 LTS like Conda.
* Working on Q_ENUM support.
* Viewer for [https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-803 PYSIDE-803] is ready to try. Please check out https://git.qt.io/playground/pyside-compare.git and give feedback.
 
==== 9. January 2020 ====
* [https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-1185 PYSIDE-803] needs to be tackled soon, it's critical, and we cannot carry that into Qt6.
* Python 3.8.1 on Windows has [https://codereview.qt-project.org/c/pyside/pyside-setup/+/285797/ some issues] while building.
* qApp macro changes [https://codereview.qt-project.org/c/pyside/pyside-setup/+/285655 discussion].
* documentation updates are still pending.
* with the release of 5.14 we have been fixing many details from uic's Python support.
* designer's RUNPATH [https://codereview.qt-project.org/c/pyside/pyside-setup/+/285712 needed to be patched], waiting for approval,
* A modular way of packing wheels is being studied.
* Re-take the Python extensions for QtCreator project evaluation.
 
== 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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