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== 2019 ==


==== 19. December 2019 ====
==2024==
- Python 3.8.1 is out, which simplifies certain issues.
- The missing COIN variable QTEST_ENVIRONMENT=ci was restored. The impact on PySide was fortunately only two missing functions.
- PYSIDE-1158 "qApp: None != None" will probably be documented only. Change is hard and not worth the effort.
- PYSIDE-1135 "embedded QApplication subclass" fix was confirmed to work correctly and will be checked in.
- PYSIDE-1079 clarified. "Missing signal" support not really possible: They have no signatures.
- PYSIDE-939 continued effort explaining the needed inversion.


==== 12. December 2019 ====
=== 10. October 2024===
- Qt 5.14 is out, but we will wait until next Monday for Python 3.8.1 to be out. More information to come.
* General
- QThread/threading freezing issue are a high priority task now.
* Infra & Releases
- Issues with Python Enums to be work on (Q_ENUM related)
* Bugs & Features
- Documentation update: 5.14 will have new things, and we are still working on them.


==== 5. December 2019 ====
=== 3. October 2024===
- About dev branch:  will be 5.15 at the moment, until feature freeze.
* General
- Python 3.8 status for 5.14:  it was a hard to find solution, and it is currently based on a flag to enable the fix for 3.8 only.
* Infra & Releases
- New documentation: fixing issues with the new structure.
* Bugs & Features


==== 28. November 2019 ====
=== 26. September 2024===
- 5.14 to be close soon, last set of patches to be merge.
- Python 3.8, first part of the fix is ready for review. Mainly the issues regarding the refcounting. The second part will be more tricky, and it is related to Python itself.
- shared_ptr on linux is working, namespaces features for Shiboken waiting for review,
- new documentation incoming for 5.14,
- positive feedback from the Qt Contributors Summit.
  - [[Qt_Contributors_Summit_2019_Program/Qt_for_Python_and_beyond]]
  - [[Qt_Contributors_Summit_2019_Program/Qt_for_Python_Documentation]]
  - [[Qt_Contributors_Summit_2019_Program/Qt_Machine_Learning_and_Math]]


==== 14. November 2019 ====
* General
- 5.12.6 Release: issues with the 5.12 merge. Some issues with Ubuntu.
** Python Scripting: We might need to figure out ownership in order to embed into other C++ apps.
- 5.14 Release hopefully in a couple of weeks.
** DS integration: workaround to deploy with the following version (with no other python files) but there has been work on improving it for the next release.
- Qt Contributors Summit happening next week.
** Intern starting on Oct 1st
- NumPy integration documentation soon.
* Infra & Releases
- qApp issue with embedded subclasses: PYSIDE-1135
** Preparing 6.7.3 (waiting for qt release)
- Python 3.8 refcount issues PYSIDE-939 soon to be solved.
** Commercial LTS 6.5.7 to be released soon (changelog pending to be merged)
- Shiboken Shared Pointers support, Namespaces, MSVC2017 issues solved.
** qtpip 0.1.3 to be released soon.
- Building docs on macOS seems really hard to achieve.
* Bugs & Features
** Updating and completing documentation
** [https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-2870 PYSIDE-2870] fixed (QStateMachine.postEvent causes a crash)
** Continue work on PythonScripting (Scrypt)
** pyside6-deploy changes for QtDS projects + corresponding changes in upcoming DS releases (needs work by DS team)- https://codereview.qt-project.org/c/pyside/pyside-setup/+/592554
** qtpip adaptation for newer pip versions + commercial wheel preference over lts wheels
** Finance Manager Tutorial - https://codereview.qt-project.org/c/pyside/pyside-setup/+/592131
** Type hints: Analysis for multi-signature problem (overloads). 600 errors -> 46 ! (from mypy)
*** override: inheritance issue with specific fields
*** overload/overlap: diff return types
*** some dunder methods might need special treatment.


==== 07. November 2019 ====
=== 19. September 2024===
- Documentation improvements are coming, more people involved.
- Qt World Summit feedback
  - First time we had a Qt for Python booth,
  - Request to improve the Python+QML story
  - Suggestions to have a better experience in QtCreator
  - In general the people really liked the integration with modules like matplotlib, pandas, opencv, scikit-image
  - The voice assistant also was really well received, this involve many other modules like Deepspeech, rasa, mozilla tts technologies, etc.
- Documentation will be written for the NumPy compatibility patch.
- Planned work on a Python 3.8 leak.
- After the chain of patches improving the namespace in shiboken, there are some issues with Python 2.7
- New template for Qt for Python on QtCreator will be merge soon.


==== 24. October 2019 ====
* General
  - Release Qt for Python 5.13.2
** Promoting the idea of writing Python plugins for Qt/C++ interfaces.
    - 5.13.2 branch exists -> testing and final build on the way
*** we most probably rely on libshiboken for having consistency in the PythonScripting module and PySide
    - aiming for release on 1st Nov 2019
** Participation in Meeting C++
  - 5.15 branch is still broken
** PyCon Sweden participation
  - further requirements mgmt/grooming ongoing
* Infra & Releases
  - name spacing modification
** 6.2.13 Commercial LTS was released
    - hiding namespaces like QtCharts from Python and adding ability to shiboken to work with inline namespaces
** qtpip update to be release in order to fix a few wheel names issues.
    - https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-990
** Preparing for 6.8.0, and 6.7.3
    - https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-1074
** PySide6_DS 4.6 by the end of September
  - removed pyside-uic and pyside-rcc -> tooling is 100% Qt
* Bugs & Features
  - QSettings related bug fix caused regression, more fixes were needed
** PYSIDE-2839 type hints for custom signals
  - Qt World Summit 2019 preparations (demos, shipping etc)
** PYSIDE-2846 Fixing a lot of type errors from examples and tests
  - translator script from C++ to Python being done
*** Currently on one of the last big issues related to overloads, optional unions, false-positives
    - translates 90% of the code (enough to simplify the snippet conversion process)
** 6.7.3, 6.8.0 changelogs
  - Numpy work complete for now
** Python 3.13 checks and fixing compatibilities
  - started working on Python 3.8 (https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-939)
** Continue work on PythonScripting (Scrypt)
  - for now Python 3.5 support stays as is
** PYSIDE-2863 lupdate issue
** PYSIDE-2845 snake_case conflict with C++ API
** Fixing examples deprecations
** Updating generated UI files
** Working on a new tutorial to mix PySide with other Python modules
** qtpip fixing resolution for naming and JSON new structure
** QMLNext research continues


==== 24. October 2019 ====
=== 12. September 2024===
  - struggling with coin and therefore none of the scheduled releases went out
* General
  - worked on multiple \brief attributes appearing in the docs
** Team back from Qt Contributor summit
  - discussions started how to improve the general Qt for Python doc index page
* Infra & Releases
  - investigating hiding C++ inline namespaces (e.g. Qt3D and QtCharts name spaces)
** Preparing 6.7.3
  - https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-795 -> complete for 5.14 (merge pending)
** Preparing 6.2.13
    -> pysequence can be handled
** Starting to switch to 6.8
  - Adopting Python 3.8 and removing support for 3.5 in Qt for Python 5.14
* Bugs & Features
  - converter from C++ to Python worker approaching point of being usable for doc snippet conversion
** Release Notes in documentation change read. Could be targeted for 6.8.
  - moving some docs from wiki to official QtfP docs
** Currently working on a QtQuick Finance-Manager tutorial using PySide6 as frontend, and FastApi + Pydantic + SqlAlchemy as backend. This will be a 4 part tutorial with each part extending the previous one.  
** [https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-2846 PYSIDE-2846] - towards MyPy testing of type hints
*** Good progress in different error categories. Crucial was to make defaults hashable.
*** First removal of duplications was quite effective. More difficult removals are "same type, different variable name" etc.
*** Overlapping signatures need a deep analysis. From 601 errors down to 294.
** [https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-2859 PYSIDE-2859] Implemented QAbstractItemModel::multiData/QModelRoleDataSpan
** [https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-2861 PYSIDE-2861] Fixed pyside6-project with relative paths for lupdate
** Fixed some compiler warnings/clang-tidy


==== 17. October 2019 ====
=== 05. September 2024===
  - Qt for Python 5.14 release -> not build-able with current Qt 5.14 release
* General
    -> Qt Declarative needs change to enable QtfP binaries
** Team mostly at QtCS
  - Qt for Python 5.15
* Infra & Releases
      -> currently not possible in CI
** Starting to switch to 6.8
  - Qt for Python 5.13.2
* Bugs & Features
      -> in principle 5.13 branch is releasable (except there is an elaborate set of doc patches)
** Fixed a potential memory corruption in enum converter generation
  - split of QtfP project modules continues
** [https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-2851 PYSIDE-2851] Tricky bug with @Slot(name=) no working. Still investigating.
    -> dependencies defined via yaml
** Adapting deployment and other things to 6.8. Some existing bugs and ToDo were solved.
    -> adds the ability to also sign produced wheel.
** Working on creating a "Release Notes" page in Qfp documentation parsing from 'doc/changelogs'
  - more example work
** Competitor research for potential new features
  - working on a semi translator to translate C++ snippets to Python
  - visit to PyConDE
  - QSharePointer related fixes being worked on
  - numpy proof-of-concept ([https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-795 PYSIDE-795]) is available
  - removed uic and rcc from pyside-setup since the Qt tools support Python now
  - exploring the idea to include designer in the Python wheels
  - discussion on supported Python versions (can we add 3.8 and remove 3.5?)
      -> more comms on the mailing list can be expected


==== 26. September 2019 ====
=== 29. August 2024===
  - Porting guide (C++ -> Python) ready for staging
* General
  - Further snippet handling improvements
** Continue discussion on a better qml integration
      - being split out and translating them to Python
* Bugs & Features
  - general bug cleanups/triaging
** Added pyside6-svgtoqml - 6.8
  - working on new template for Python to create ui files
** Added missing binaries to 6.8. This include some QtQuick modules.
  - [https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-795 PYSIDE-795] (numpy) progressing
** Deprecated ToDo fixed in pyside6-deploy
  - OPCUA viewer example port completed
** Updated Nuitka version to 2.4.8
  - added more Qt 5.14 API to Qt for Python 5.14
** Code Design simplification of pyside6-deploy
  - [https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-1087 PYSIDE-1087] in progress
** [https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-2835 PYSIDE-2835] - error message setup in pyside6-deploy. Issue raised in Nuitka.
** [https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-2846 PYSIDE-2846] - towards MyPy testing of type hints
*** Reformatted helper functions in generate_pyi with class methods
*** Changed all typing classes to have prefix "typing" against name clashes (tricky)
*** Started systematic fixture of errors: 533 in 7 categories (was 601 before prefix). Seeking general fixture algorithms.
** [https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-2701 PYSIDE-2701] Add a Benchmark batch script to measure progress


==== 19. September 2019 ====
=== 22. August 2024===
  - Roadmapping session for Qt for Python 5.15 & 6.0 on 8. October
* General
  - experimenting with new configuration changes in coin and how they affect Qt for Python
** Bug fixing week
  - Porting tutorial (C++ -> Python) was pushed for review
** uv release 0.3.0 https://astral.sh/blog/uv-unified-python-packaging
  - Progress on porting the C++ snippets to Python
** Tag strings https://discuss.python.org/t/pep-750-tag-strings-for-writing-domain-specific-languages/60408
      -> will be a longer process
** discussion related to spy
  - [https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-795 PYSIDE-795] (numpy) progressing
* Infra & Releases
    -> streamline-ing some code sections in the process
** 6.2 issue with ".commercial" tag on the wheels
  - focus on validating existing bugs
** dev will switch to 6.8.0 when the branch is ready.
  - otherwise the team dealt with impact of a cmake based Qt build system
* Bugs & Features
  - porting QtOpcua to Qt for Python
** PYSIDE-2786 Finished the 3.10 patch to support the new syntax for the pyi files.
      - particular work went into to opcuaviewer example
** Enabling a process to test pyi with mypy
** Flatpak documentation was merged
** Typing issue related to QByteArray.fromRawData
** QtDS integration continues
**


==== 12. September 2019 ====
=== 15. August 2024===
  - Work on QtOpcUa continued [https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-952 PYSIDE-952]
* General
  - Work on example for Qt Summit
** Bug fixing weekS (2 weeks)
  - Work on [https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-1057 PYSIDE-1057]
** Planning for future work on QtDS
  - Prototyped QStringView support
* Infra & Releases
  - [https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-1087 PYSIDE-1087] huge speed patch ready for review
** Fixing an issue to properly discover the installed WebEngine
  - [https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-795 PYSIDE-795] (numpy) progressing
** Note: 6.5 aarch64 releases are only around for PySide, not Qt/C++.
** Continue work on libclang pre-built on windows arm64
* Bugs & Features
** PYSIDE-2833 Doc changes: qml tutorials, re-gen docs to fix
** Updated Qt Python Scripting (QtPyScript? name to be confirmed)
** 6.7.3 changelog preparation
** Adjusting branches, because of missing patches.
** pyi: fixing more issues
** research on improving the qml + python interaction


==== 5. September 2019 ====
=== 8. August 2024===
  - Qt for Python 5.13.1 & 5.12.5
* General
    - RTA for 5.13.1 released
** Talk accepted for KDE Akademy: "Pythonizing Qt"
    - 5.12.5 released next week
** Qt Contributor summit session to work with people from the Squish team.
  - Branching
** An intern will most probably join the team.
    - challenge is the building of Qt 6 while maintaining a stable Qt for Python build
* Infra & Releases
    - one solution might be a QfP build for selected modules only
** PySide6_DS will remain being available only for Windows/Linux x86_64 and macOS universal, no aarch64 for Linux
  - Team is planning a roadmapping session for QfP 5.15 release
** Research continues on Windows arm64
  - [https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-795 PYSIDE-795] (numpy) progressing
* Bugs & Features
  - quite a few bugs have been fixed e.g. [https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-1051 PYSIDE-1051]
** PYSIDE-2384 Enum as Sequences issues on Python 3.11
  - Looking at QStringView exposure in Python
** Signal Manager massive refactoring
  - Continued work on uic/rcc tooling
** qmlimportscanner new option to exclude directories (for our tooling)
  - General tooling improvements when working with QtCreator and Python
** PYSIDE-2833 loadFromModule should be used for QML projects
  - Updated some build instructions for QfP on Fedora
** Fixes in the documentation
** 6.8 adaption
** Create the KDE documentation for using the PySide BaseApp for Flatpak (on review)
** Improving the documentation, getting ideas from other frameworks/projects. We will try to keep old links working with some alias, and fixing many broken links.
** Continue fixing pyi issues
** Discussion on the next steps on the QtDS integration


==== 29. August 2019 ====
=== 2. August 2024===
  - Releases (5.12.5 & 5.13.1) upcoming
* General
  - Release candidate wheels under test for both releases (Linux & macOS, Win is outstanding)
* Infra & Releases
      - last patch for 5.13.1 is [https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-1079 PYSIDE-1079]
** 6.8, 6.7.3 preparations
  - [https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-795 PYSIDE-795] continued progress
** "Qt Design Studio components for PySide6" wheels are now available from pypi.org. https://pypi.org/project/PySide6-DS/
  - new look at our example basket
* Bugs & Features
  - continued work on [https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-1033 PYSIDE-1033]
** Some pyi issues were fixed ( [https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-2788 PYSIDE-2788], [https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-2752 PYSIDE-2752] )
  - uic and rcc can output python code -> needs deployment changes in Pyside2 -> target release Qt for Python 5.14
** [https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-2814 PYSIDE-2814] Deployment: spaces can now be used in extra_args
      - adding support in QtCreator being able to deal with the above python tools
** [https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-2828 PYSIDE-2828] Updated tutorials
** [https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-2820 PYSIDE-2820] Fixed Opaque containers to work with QML
** Some refactoring of the PySide's signal handling
** [https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-2825 PYSIDE-2825] Added QtWebView
** [https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-2630 PYSIDE-2630] [https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-2794 PYSIDE-2794] pyside6-deploy issue related to filling QML files from venv is fixed
** [https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-2806 PYSIDE-2806] Fixed app name issue for pyside6-deploy
** [https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-2785 PYSIDE-2785] Fixed site-packages issue for pyside6-deploy
** Cleanup and added missing modules to flatpak. Still need review. The corresponding patches are merged in pyside-setu - https://github.com/pyside/io.qt.PySide.BaseApp/pulls
** Added README to PySide flatpak recipe. Needs review - https://github.com/pyside/io.qt.PySide.BaseApp/pulls
** Working on updating the KDE PyQt documentation to also target PySide
** Added minibrowser WebView example


==== 22. August 2019 ====
=== 25. July 2024===
  - Work on QtOpcUa started  [https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-952 PYSIDE-952]
* General
  - Solved [https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-1079 PYSIDE-1079] partially, need the structure
** Plan with some brainstorming ideas from last session.
    of 5.14 to implement the typing.Optional feature.
* Infra & Releases
  - Solved and closed [https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-1077 PYSIDE-1077] wrong init code
** tqtc/dev branch still broken. Waiting for Finland to come back from vacation :D
  - Solved [https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-1073 PYSIDE-1073], waiting for review
** DS wheels still need to be tested
  - Refined and closed [https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-945 PYSIDE-945].
* Bugs & Features
** arm64 shiboken generator not properly working (libclang)
** flatpak support: patch was merged, and there were a couple of issues that have a possible fix. After that, the KDE documentation will be modified in order to offer the option for users to use PySide as well.
** scikit-build research
** signature compression research: dealing with some last details.
*** fullname field, and compression of the strings.
** no-gil research will re-start next month, in order to address the new changes from cpython
** Type hints issues being worked out.


==== 15. August 2019 ====
  - Partially solved [https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-1052 PYSIDE-1052] (constants missing).
  - Solved at the same time [https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-945 PYSIDE-945].
    Solved a QtCore.Slot() bug that dates back to 2010-11-03.
  - Work on [https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-1073 PYSIDE-1073] trying to fix the bug.
  - Work on [https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-1051 PYSIDE-1051] trying to fix the bug.
  - Merges/work on continuous integration infrastructure (preparing 5.13.1)


==== 8. August 2019 ====
=== 18. July 2024===
  - Licenses on Pypi
* General
    - pypi is used for commercial and open source users
** We got a talk accepted at Akademy 2024.
    - currently only publishing the open source license -> will add second "commercial" license
** September 11th is the limit to submit features for PySide 6.8.0
  - Releasing
* Infra & Releases
    - 5.13.1 release is being prepared
** Flaky macOS failures were addressed
    - 5.12.5 follows later this month
** PySide6 Design Studio wheels to be tested
  - Documentation changes
* Bugs & Features
    - Qt for Python Logo updated
** Work on [https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-2701 PYSIDE-2701] - Binary size reduction
    - CSS updates -> (lots of suggestions/bug reports from the community)
*** LZMA compression moved to ZLIB and C++. Compression on Windows 8.7 %, macOS 4.7 %
  - PYSIDE-951 (primitive type support) merged and done
*** Study of pybind11/nanobind continues.
  - PYSIDE-795 (Numpy support progressing)
*** Overlap with PYSIDE-2404: Startup time optimization of ZLIB compression almost ready.
  - ported simpletreewidget from C++ to python
** Finding some use-cases from PySide users during EuroPython.
  - restructuring cmake setup with the aim to have a more modular build selection
** Flatpak recipes are ready to be tested, meaning projects relying on flatpak (like KDE) will be able to use PySide in their builds :D
** macOS multimedia missing plugins.
** QtWebView might be added for completeness.
** Feedback from EuroPython: More tutorials, and examples with applied cases, rather than too basic or too advanced ones.


==== 1. August 2019 ====
=== 11. July 2024===
  - (Summer break)
* General
  - PYSIDE-795 (numpy support is progressing)
** Two members of the team at Europython
  - PYSIDE-951 (primitive pointer types ready for review)
* Bugs & Features
  - Fixed pyside-setup 5.14 branch building (addressing lots of deprecation changes)
** Work on [https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-2701 PYSIDE-2701] - Binary size reduction
*** An LZMA compressor has been written in Python and C++ with 4.5% win.
*** Reimplementation in C++ only is even easier. (when considered worth it)
*** Study of pybind11/nanobind implementation
** Work on [https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-2803 PYSIDE-2803] - qmlimportscanner and Windows cmd line length limitation
** Refactoring and cleanup of the Signals/Slot handling code
** Added missing libraries for the QtMultiMedia ffmpeg plugin on macOS


==== 25. July 2019 ====
===4. July 2024===
  - (Summer break)
* General
  - continuing on PYSIDE-795: documentation,  
** Next week, two members of the team will be at Europython
    - supporting the iterable protocol (will become sub-task)
** Don't forget QtWS 2025 submissions (Until first days of August)
    - augmenting incomplete classes (QtPrintSupport)
** We might get the help from an intern.
    - checking and correcting function signatures according to PYSIDE-951
* Infra & Releases
** LTS Open Source release is out for 6.2.9 (sources)
** QtDS packages are generated now in the CI
** Improvements in https://download.qt.io/official_releases/QtForPython/
* Bugs & Features
** Fixed PYSIDE-2790: Implemented task "uncancelling" and cancel count mechanism
** Fixed PYSIDE-2799: Turns out cancelling handles when cancelling tasks can cause issues
** PYSIDE-2798 might not be (easily) fixable entirely
*** Qt and asyncio collide when Qt shuts everything down too early for asyncio's liking, e.g. when closing the window.
*** Setting keep_running=True is probably a suitable workaround.
** Submitted cherry-picks to 6.7 for a number of changes (mostly QtAsyncio) where the pick-to line was forgotten
** PYSIDE-2701 activities:
*** implemented removal of the fullName field
*** started implementation of common function end replacement
*** started work on SignatureStrings compression with LZMA
** PYSIDE-2793 (PYSIDE-1057) Memory leak in slot connection. Some were fixed, but there is still one that's very old (PYSIDE-79)
** singleShot newly added signature has some complications when disconnected
** NumPy 2.0 compatibility patches were merged.
** Signal Handling research and review
** PYSIDE-2192 Input hook handling (for matplotlib) was addressed thank to some suggestion.
** PYSIDE-2805 Suggestion overload QMessageBox.open for passing a new slot.
** 6.8 Adaption continues.
** PYSIDE-2803 support bug on windows with pyside6-deploy command too long
** Flatpak: shiboken is building, but pyside has some issues still.
** Research on windows arm64
** Testing DS packages


==== 18. July 2019 ====
===27. June 2024===
  - (Summer break)
  - Some progress related to Bug fixing is being done.
  - bug fixing on signatures accessing "__doc__" on a module function.
  - continued on PYSIDE-795


==== 11. July 2019 ====
* General
  - visiting EuroPython
** Python language summit blog posts.
  - discussed roadmap for 5.14 release (check out Pyside Jira project with FixVersion 5.14)
* Infra & Releases
  - continued CI configuration setup for pyside-setup
** Android wheels configuration is running OK.
  - continued on shared pointer bugs(PYSIDE-1024 & PYSIDE-1043)
** Feature freeze for 6.8 on September 11 (for Qt/C++ RC release)
  - assert triggering for certain types (PYSIDE-1037)
** Tweaks for the Qt for Python deployment internal guide for Raspberry Pi.
  - further changes for PYSIDE-951
* Bugs & Features
  - numpy enhancements (PYSIDE-795) (documentation and tests improvements)
** QtDS: packages ready to go out after CI configuration.
** QtDS: export option within the tool planned in 2 weeks.
** qmlnext: the issue with the example task was find and solved.
** PYSIDE-2786 Preparation (future statement) of new syntax for Python 3.9
*** then checkin of deferred 3.10 changes was done.
** PYSIDE-2701 activities:
*** Removal of generated fullname field (in progress)
*** Further analysis of possible folding savings
*** Revived the 2019 PySide 2 comparison viewer
** PYSIDE-2795 FreeCAD problem was solved.
** PYSIDE-2792 Nested class QMetaObject::Connection (for custom Connection classes)
** 6.8 QtGraph examples. The module keeps changing.
** PYSIDE-2793 memory leak on modbus client.
** Nuitka upgrade 2.3.7: issues with Python 3.12 were fixed.
** Some new issues and limitations on the android ci conf (building python from source)
** Flatpak task continues, and people from KDE is involved in the discussion.
** pyside6-deploy support case with command line length limitations
** PYSIDE-2790 Few new bug reports related to QtAsyncio: uncancel not implemented.
** QtAsyncio cancel errors are not propagated.


==== 04. July 2019 ====
===20. June 2024===
  - Qt for Python 5.13.0 released
  - Experimented with cross compiling
    - not easily possible -> build system needs major work
  - New control system for Qt for Python (isolates Qt4Python CI configuration from coin)
    - more flexible way of working as not dependent on coin release
  - [https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-951 PYSIDE-951] finish
  - [https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-795 PYSIDE-795] work continues
  - fixed QFlags handling
  - had trouble merging pyside to dev branch
  - some discussions around smart pointer handling in Qt4Python
  - https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-634 ready to be merged
  - https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-1010


==== 27. June 2019 ====
* General
  - about to finish [https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-951 PYSIDE-951]
** Interviews going on for a new position and internship.
  - fixed "Fix qApp import of QCoreApplication"
* Infra & Releases
  - cleanup formatting of all source code and modern C++11 features
** 6.7.2 was released last Tuesday
  - final re-working of "Example: Move the SQL statements", improving the C++ code as well
** QtDS package is currently awaiting approval from the team.
* Bugs & Features
** Android wheels patch integrating. Windows signing issue hopefully fixed.  
** PYSIDE-2781 - Nuitka sporadic failure with Python 3.12. Collaborating with Kay, and with help from ctismer, the issue is fixed. Was caused due to bytecode handling of Nuitka.
** PYSIDE-2702 - Flatpak progressing. Discussion with QtCreator led to the impression that an Flatpak extension would be better than Flatpak Baseapp.
*** This enable PySide6 to be bundled with the QtCreator flatpak app
** Follow-up patches from the internal QtAsyncio presentation.
** There are two functions in asyncio that are not properly documented.
** Type hints:
*** Discussion about updating the generator, in order to use 3.10+ notation (even if we are compatible with 3.9). Possibility to use 'from __future__ import annotations'
** PYSIDE-2701 - Binary reduction approach ideas
** QtDS exporting python files will be started soon.
** Improved QML integration being studied.


==== 20. June 2019 ====
  - Release
    - Qt for Python 5.12.4 released today
    - Qt for Python 5.13.0 wheels done -> still need testing
  - Coin configurations to be separated from qt5.git (will become part of pyside-setup.git
  - SQL example was updated (to be more pythonic)
  - Shared pointer related fixes being done
  - reopened https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-1033 (how to build shiboken) after reviewing the current situation
  - macOS build issue being addressed
  - https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-951
  - team got commit rights for pyinstaller project repository
  - TQtC is sponsoring PyCon DE


==== 12. June 2019 ====
===13. June 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:
** Python 3.9 story: the decision was made without considering that 3.9 is still getting security releases, so we have decided to keep supporting Python 3.9 for PySide 6.8 LTS, but we might drop it in the middle of some bug-fix releases.
    - Qt for Python 5.13.0 (Qt still on RC0)
*** Things that are considered to support certain python versions are: Internal CI Python versions for each OS, Python version lifecycle https://devguide.python.org/versions/, features that will improve user experience from new versions.
    - Qt for Python 5.12.4 (in the next few weeks)
*** Python stubs (pyi) might be compatible with 3.10+
  - discussed options how to sign wheel content
** Qt Group is sponsoring EuroPython 2024: and we will give a talk!
  - cross compilation of Qt for Python (work in progress)
* Infra & Releases
    -> investigating options on how to achieve that in an easy way
** 6.7.2 packages are ready to be released.
  - fixed build on CentOS
** Boot2Qt had a few issues that were solved.
  - https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-1017
** Starting process to test windows arm64 (discussion around libclang)
  - https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-1016
** Nightly builds:
  - https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-1024
*** Possible solution for linux and macOS arm64 android builds.
  - https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-1019
*** Maybe also for non-unity builds? it has been failing in some corner cases.
  - https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-795 (NumPy)
*** We could have dev-android branch so we don't block the normal dev development.
  - discussed commit issues with pyinstaller maintainer
*** nightly builds merge automatically if everything passes.
  - QtC will have presence on PyCon DE
*** PyPy integrations might join a similar configuration as well.
* Bugs & Features
** Android wheels from macOS host through coin successful. Assembling the final patch. Coin still running tests for an Android build and error-ing still needs to be resolved.
** [https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-2702 PYSIDE-2702] - Flatpak base app implementation started.
** [https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-2781 PYSIDE-2781] - pyside6-deploy failure investigation ongoing. Could be a Nuitka issue. User using the latest Nuitka.
** Working on improve our typing implementations.
** QtAsyncio: internal presentation including the theory behind and some live examples.
** Lazy load: disabled for PyPy, fixing some shiboken-tests
** QtScrypt: development continues
** [https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-2780 PYSIDE-2780] refcount bug in the lazy import fixed
** [https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-2751 PYSIDE-2751] 3.13 compatibility patches are ready, nogil under development
** [https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-2701 PYSIDE-2701] reduction of binary sizes under investigation, estimating the achievable reduction


==== 23. May 2019 ====
===06. June 2024===
  - Qt 6 (e.g. Pyside 6.0?) https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-904
  - Pyinstaller issues being a bottle neck at the moment for the deployment story
  - Qt for Python 5.12.4 release
    - patches are accumulating
    - TODO: branching, changelog, testing
  - Qt for Python 5.13 release status
    - need cleanup in Jira of fix versions
    - Qt 5.13 blog post
    - start generating 5.13 release wheels for testing
  - Discussed Python 2 EOL on 1.1.2020
    - Current proposal is dropping Python 2 support in Qt for Python 6
    - Python 2 users can continue to use Qt for Python 5.15


==== 16. May 2019 ====
* General
  - Team member attended PyCon US
** Maintenance work next week will keep the CI offline (Monday morning, phase I + Wednesday, phase II)
  - Work on tutorials
** PySide 6.8 will support Python 3.10+
  - [https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-816 PYSIDE-816] [https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-1003 PYSIDE-1003] Final fix checked in
** Must read https://peps.python.org/pep-0741/
  - [https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-735 PYSIDE-735] Make generate_pyi crash on real ImportErrors, only!
* Infra & Releases
  - [https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-1004 PYSIDE-1004] writable signatures implemented but needs to change
** Some issues with the macOS CI units.
** Local raspberry pi 4 (aarch64) for testing: 10.9.78.82
** qtpip 0.1.2 release: mostly issues around the commercial version tag and the usage of '+' and '.'
** 6.5.6 commercial LTS was released.
** 6.7.2 release will happen soon (due to an issue with designer)
** the Python 3.9 macOS CI configuration will be updated to 3.11, and the windows with 3.11 will be updated to 3.12
* Bugs & Features
** https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-2622 - Standalone mode for Deployment as per many requests from users
** Deployment tests fixed with a custom PySide6 build. There might be corner cases that were missed.
** https://codereview.qt-project.org/c/pyside/pyside-setup/+/537466 ready, but waiting for macOS x86_64 to update Python to 3.11 - https://codereview.qt-project.org/c/qt/qt5/+/565565/4 (Thanks Simo)
** Patches ready for updating python syntax to drop typing.Optional (and use | instead) that will go in once we drop 3.9
** Preparing presentation and improvements to QtAsyncio
** PYSIDE-2440 will be prepared.
** op codes changing in Python, is altering some of our internal implementation, like the forgiveness mode.
** https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-2751 planned work for the no-gil feature in Python 3.13
** smart pointers with lazy loading were not working, but a fix was merged.
** Qt Designer had a regression that motivated 6.7.2
** Qt 6.8 adaption taking a lot of work due to doc changes and QtGraphs
** PYSIDE-2772 issue ended up being a user problem


==== 9. May 2019 ====
===30. May 2024===
  - Final fixes to uic to be able to generate Python [https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-797 PYSIDE-797]
  - Refactorings in libpyside
  - Work on SQL book tutorial
  - Research into using Clang C++ API
  - [https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-816 PYSIDE-816] [https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-1003 PYSIDE-1003] Final fix is waiting for approval
  - Viewer tool for [https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-803 PYSIDE-803] nearly ready for browsing code


==== 2. May 2019 ====
* General
  - 5.12.3 released
** PySide 6.8 will most probably support Python 3.10+
  - Looking into OpenGL version functions [https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-955 PYSIDE-955]
** Evaluating arm64 wheels for Windows
  - Improved shiboken2 progress message output
* Infra & Releases
  - Sped up shiboken2 class generation significantly
** Discussion about the Qt for Python in boot2qt
  - Improved code generated for multiple inheritance
** PyPy releases has been on hold due to some internal CI problems.
  - First look at 5.14 API
** Commercial packages will now be available on the following day after community packages.
  - Fixed Problems with PyInstaller after removal of Coin glitches
** qtpip is planned to support aarch64
  - Wrote viewer tool to finally support [https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-803 PYSIDE-803]
** 6.5.6 commercial lts will be released next week
* Bugs & Features
** [https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-2766 PYSIDE-2766] - Android wheels from macOS successful. Patches for review.
*** Testing a sample app now + Modifying https://codereview.qt-project.org/c/pyside/pyside-setup/+/537466
** 6.8 adaption is in progress [qtcharts is a bit unstable]
** c++20 research to improve libshiboken
** qtscrypt progressing to support signal/slot
** dev will support python 3.10+ [for 6.8+]
** PYSIDE-2767 pyi improvements.
** lazy init for nested types disrupted the smart pointer support.
** https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-2440 type hints optionallity is planned to be implemented.


==== 25. April 2019 ====
===23. May 2024===
- Preparation for Qt for Python 5.12.3 release.
* General
  - Replaced QtXmlPatterns by libxml2/libxslt for documentation generation
* Infra & Releases
  - Testing and final polishing of Python output mode of uic 5.14
** Preparing 6.7.1 with a lot of fixes
  - New signatures related to PYSIDE-989
** 5.15.17 LTS released
  - Looking into OpenGL version functions [https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-955 PYSIDE-955]
* Bugs & Features
  - Improving the usability of the "--reuse-build" option
** [https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-2747 PYSIDE-2747] Fixed PySide to run on Fedora 40 with 3.12-3
  - fixing new PyInstaller problem with Python 2.7.16
** [https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-2749 PYSIDE-2749] Worked on a performance regression related to Lazy Init
** [https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-2758 PYSIDE-2758] Added QQuickWebEngineProfile.setUrlRequestInterceptor()
** [https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-2762 PYSIDE-2762] Fixed a type hinting bug
** Brushed up and fixed a few examples
** 6.8 Adaption
** Python 3.13 check
** [https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-2751 PYSIDE-2751] Python 3.13 first step towards --disable-gil compatibility (no ob_refcnt)
** pyside6-deploy. Ignore files with .webp, .cpp.o, .qsb and .qen extension as Nuitka errors with them.  
** Close to macOS cross compilation


==== 18. April 2019 ====
===16. May 2024===
- Usage of QtXmlPattern in doc tool chain of Qt for Python
* General
  - xml pattern deprecated in Qt 5.13
* Infra & Releases
  - working on libxml2 replacement (has issues on platforms w/o libxml2 support)
** 5.15.17 commercial lts needs to be re-packaged one more time due to 3rd party components updates.
  - in the long term, the qdoc generation process should really produce python docs too
** 6.7.1 release will also be re-packed. LE for release is 20th of May
  - updated coin to continue to include QtXmlPattern for Qt for Python builds
* Bugs & Features
- [https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-996 PYSIDE-996] fixed on SuSE but not yet RedHat
** [https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-2753 PYSIDE-2753] - Added missing libQt6DeclarativeOpcUa binary to wheels
- working on docs to provide hints when working with pyinstaller
** [https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-2750 PYSIDE-2750] - Added missing libQt6VirtualKeyboardSettings binary to wheels
- [https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-955 PYSIDE-955] in progress
** 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
- New attempt on [https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-803 PYSIDE-803]
** Working on macOS cross compilation. The clang parser of shiboken generator needs some changes for cross compilation. Tricky changes incoming.
- shiboken [https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-995 PYSIDE-995] call operator support
** [https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-2748 PYSIDE-2748] - Fixed a type hint error
- custom scene graph rendering node in Python (related to PYSIDE-955 PYSIDE-989)
** [https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-2747 PYSIDE-2747] - Diagnostics and minor fixes for a crash on Fedora, no real fix though
- improving primitive type conversion (by the various OpenGL related bugs like PYSIDE-989 or PYSIDE-955)
** [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
** [https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-2745 PYSIDE-2745] - Fixed a bug with exceptions in 0-delay singleShot timer slots
** [https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-2404 PYSIDE-2404] - Lazy Loading completed by supporting subtypes. This gives 8-9% more performance.
** Support for Python 3.13 started - first compatibility before switching to disable-gil
** Possibilities explored to lazy load signatures or save space.


==== 11. April 2019 ====
===2. May 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)
** OKR reviews for the next quarter.
- further discussion how to handle snippets
** Got a long document with feedback of a few tools we provided, that will help us improving our tooling!
- more tutorials (especially for PYSIDE-901)
** Started the planning of moving away from '<file>.pyproject' to 'pyproject.toml' for pyside projects, in order to add options for our tools.
- Further work on cross compilation for ARMv7
* Infra & Releases
- Various fixes for Shiboken to handle namespaces in Qt better
** 5.15.17 commercial lts needs to be re-packaged due to 3rd party components updates.
- Improve Shiboken documentation composition/layout
** 6.7.1 to be released next week.
- Bugfixing related to Qt file handling
** Add new mechanism to test snapshot wheels.
* Bugs & 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-2705 PYSIDE-2705] - issues with signal disconnect warnings fixed
** macOS cross compilation for Android - stuck on a CMake issue. Progressing well.
** [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


==== 28. March 2019 ====
- Qt for Python 5.12.2 released last on 22. March 2019
- started to write up documentation on how to deploy with pyinstaller
  - finding quite a few issues when using pyinstaller on Windows (and particular Python 2)
  - macOS & Linux less problematic
- worked on documentation issues (like missing links for easier browsing)
- investigated issues where shiboken didn't handle C++ namespaces across modules
- handle nullptr usage properly in docs
- more translation of C++ snippets to Python (is a never ending task as there are thousands of C++ snippets)


==== 21. March 2019 ====
===25. April 2024===
- Qt for Python 5.12.2 release activities
* General
  - some bugs and general CI issues kept delaying the generation of the final release wheels
** Successful talk at PyCon DE. Good response.
  - most bugs were related to pyinstaller and other deployment tools
* Infra & Releases
  - one last cxfreeze bug being integrated
** Preparing 6.7.1
  - next/subsequent set of wheels will be 5.12.2 release
** 5.15.17 Commercial LTS is also soon to be prepared
- Lots of installer related discussions in the team
** sccache seems to be not properly behaving (on windows) because we are not getting enough output.
  - question is which installer/deployment tool to use/recommend
** PySide6_DS wheel to be adjusted and hopefully be released soon.
  - current decision is to provide guides/documentation for at least fbs and pyinstaller
* Bugs & Features
- review of project's current release practices (in particular in the area of QA)
** Added a number of new classes
  - no outcome at this stage
** PYSIDE-2676 issues on ubuntu (might be related to a windows issue as well)
- addressed issues in dev branch related to changes in Qt dev branch
** Implementation of Lazy Groups in order to avoid the regression in 6.7.0 due to multiple inheritance.
- Qt for Python team joined Qt doc team to talk about ways how to improve Qt for Python docs
** 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


==== 14. March 2019 ====
===18. April 2024===
- Fixed broken documentation formatting; added deprecation information
- [https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/QTBUG-74424 QTBUG-74424] 5.13 Release blocker affecting doc generation occurred
- [https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-932 PYSIDE-932]/[https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-942 PYSIDE-942]: The embedding patch is mostly
  working, but needs some refinement to be complete:
  - The .pyc generation contradicts the Limited API and must be changed to
    use source code.
  - The code isolation must be made explicit and complete, so that installers
    ''don't recognize'' that there is something.
    Right now this was done in the wrong direction.
  Not much code and time necessary, just fixing ''the right'' bits.
- PYSIDE-934 The Buffer protocol for Python 2 needed a special flag to be compatible.               
- Added more features for the Python project wizards on QtCreator https://codereview.qt-project.org/#/c/255686/
- Created a new tutorial for a workshop https://github.com/cmaureir/qtforpython_workshop


==== 7. March 2019 ====
* General
- Qt for Python 5.12.2 release
** Bug fixing week
  - waiting for final patch before release (PYSIDE-942/PYSIDE-932)
** PyConDE (Mon-Wed next week)
- Setting up test envs for Python 3.7 & 3.5 (so far testing was always done on Python 3.6) -> work in progress
** Planning a workshop for TQtC solution engineers (internal)
- QML tutorial under review (https://codereview.qt-project.org/#/c/254044/10)
** Possibility to include shiboken into the Axivion infra
- how to integrate deprecation infos from Qt to the Python side
* Infra & Releases
- Python output to rcc [https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-855 PYSIDE-855]
** 5.15.17 commercial LTS was postponed to Friday. Still need test on Windows.
- [https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-95 PYSIDE-95] fixed
** 6.5.6 release planned
- Experimented with MicroPython
** 6.7.1 release has been postponed to the first week of May
- Found the reason for [https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-966 PYSIDE-966]: A memory leak was fixed by ctypes.
** 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.


==== 28. February 2019 ====
===11. April 2024===
- Discussion on adding more python testing environments to be certain 3.5+ versions are properly working.
* General
- [https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-953 PYSIDE-953] fixed
** Bug fixing week.
- [https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-934 PYSIDE-934] almost done
** Qt 6.6.3 Library split broke our release, so we provided 6.6.3.1 as a fix.
- [https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-931 PYSIDE-931] almost done
** Qt 6.7.0 also had an issue with a binary incompatibility change on QtAudio and QAudio
- refcount bug fixes mathplotlib crashes:
** Maybe we implement a simple channel of communicating this details, in order to avoid breakage [maybe architect meetings]
  - [https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-928 PYSIDE-928]
** Qt Creator 13 creates venvs automatically. This needs to be revisited to avoid multiple environments to be created.
  - [https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-937 PYSIDE-937]
** New epics with brainstorming ideas.
  - [https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-943 PYSIDE-943]
* Infra & Releases
- WIP: Embedding to solve signature problems dependency of support directory since 5.12.1 . Will solve  
** 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.
  - [https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-942 PYSIDE-942]  missing support, PyInstaller  (was solved but involves PyInstaller change)
** 5.15.17 commercial LTS to be release next week.
  - [https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-932 PYSIDE-932]  missing support, cx_freese
** 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.


==== 21. February 2019 ====
===4. April 2024===
- 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)
* General
- Qt 5.12.2 about to be released -> should have a Qt for Python 5.12.2 release
** Large part of the team at conferences/on Easter holiday
- discussed installer related crash bug following 5.12.1 release [https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-932 PYSIDE-932] etc.
* Infra & Releases
- tutorials works (based on recent Qt for Python youtube videos)
** Released 6.6.3.1 release with fixes for Quick Controls/Multimedia
- prepared discussions with doc team meeting next week (on Python support)
** Preparing for 6.7.0
- some more work on [https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-795 PYSIDE-795]
* Bugs & Features
- work to distinguish array types from pointer variables
** [https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-2646 PYSIDE-2646] Improved cleanup of signal manager objects
- [https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-946 PYSIDE-946] under development
** [https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-2662 PYSIDE-2662] Fix for a signal in OpcUA
- [https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-934 PYSIDE-934] void* type handling
** [https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-2663 PYSIDE-2663] Fixed a crash in webengine bindings
- [https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-938 PYSIDE-938] under review
** [https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-2668 PYSIDE-2668] Fixed an error in enums
- Current Creator 4.9 beta released today added Python project templates
- PEP 518 (project format for Python projects) -> needs Qt Creator support


==== 14. February 2019 ====
===28. March 2024===
- 5.12.1 wheels had meta data issues and were redone with fixed meta data
* General
- discussed improving the integration of Python example code into Qt for Python docs
* Infra & Releases
- [https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-921 PYSIDE-921]
** Prepared 6.6.3.1 release; 6.6.3 was unfortunately broken due to missing libraries (Quick Controls/Multimedia)
- improved signature matching for custom types
* Bugs & Features
- [https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-816 PYSIDE-816] fixed and merged
** [https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-2654 PYSIDE-2654] Fixed multiple inheritance when no __init__ is in a subclass
- [https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-922 PYSIDE-922] fixed
** 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-45 PYSIDE-45] fixed
** [https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-2652 PYSIDE-2652] Fixed an int overflow
- looking at crashes when importing pandas & numpy (the order of imports matters when working around it)
** [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
==== 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 ====
===21. March 2024===
- Preparing 5.12.1 release
* General
  - Packages are looking good, likely to be released at same time as Qt 5.12.1 release
** Ideas to improve the module.
- Submitted class bindings of Qt RemoteObjects for [https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-862 PYSIDE-862]
** Most of the team is going on vacation the following weeks.
- 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
** 6.7.0 to be released the first week of April [delayed]
- Fixed warnings, prepared Qt 5.13 bindings (based on current 5.13 API additions)
** 6.2.12 Commercial LTS to be release in the following days [delayed]
- Looked into [https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-816 PYSIDE-816], [https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-803 PYSIDE-803]
** 6.6.3 to be release next week [delayed]
- 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)
** 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.


==== 24. January 2019 ====
===14. March 2024===
- Release branch for 5.12.1 exist
* General
  - 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.
** PyConDE schedule is out, don't miss Shyam's talk https://pretalx.com/pyconde-pydata-2024/talk/W7YDRX/
- Prepared class bindings of Qt RemoteObject for PYSIDE-862 for review
** Python 3.13.0a5 is out.
- Some creativity to keep integrations going due to COIN issues
* Infra & Releases
- Investigation of PYSIDE-803 is ongoing. The issue needs deep analysis to isolate the problem.
** 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


==== 17. January 2019 ====
===07. March 2024===
- Fixed PYSIDE-908, further investigation into PYSIDE-803 (free threading)
* General
- QfP 5.12.1 release being prepared
** Participation in FOSS Backstage
- PYSIDE-797 (uic change ready for review)
* Infra & Releases
- PYSIDE-862 (Qt RemoteObject module support)
** 6.5.5 Commercial LTS was released
- PYSIDE-634 being fixed
** 5.15.13 OSS Package will be released tomorrow
- started to look at true cross compilation (PYSIDE-802)
** qtpip 0.1.1 release delayed
- Improving Qt Creator project template support (QTCREATORBUG-21824)
** 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.


==== 10. January 2019 ====
===29. February 2024===
- Scope for Qt for Python 5.13 release
  -> relevant tasks marked with Fixversion 5.13 in bugreports.qt.io
  -> feature freeze for Qt for Python 5.13 (April 2019)
- looked into case of corrupted meta data of wheel
- supporting named arguments for signals
- some minimal support in Qt Creator to create a Qt for Python project
- bug hunting in 5.12.0 release
- working on Pyside-797
- further analysis of PYSIDE-803, working on an implementation plan


==== 3. January 2019 ====
* General
- Completed: Complete The Signature Introspection (PYSIDE-510)
** Leap day!
- After the release there has been a couple of new reported bugs that we are working on:
** Documentation changes
  - There was some outdated documentation issue regarding Slots()
* Infra & Releases
  - A couple of issues with multiple inheritance like: PYSIDE-868
** 6.7.0 will drop support of Python 3.8
  - and with QPlainTextEdit PYSIDE-886
** 6.5.5 to be released in the following days
- Restarted investigation of PYSIDE-803
** 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


== 2018 ==
===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.


* [[Qt for Python Development Notes 2018]]
===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
*** 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.
 
===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 [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 09:35, 27 September 2024


2024

10. October 2024

  • General
  • Infra & Releases
  • Bugs & Features

3. October 2024

  • General
  • Infra & Releases
  • Bugs & Features

26. September 2024

  • General
    • Python Scripting: We might need to figure out ownership in order to embed into other C++ apps.
    • DS integration: workaround to deploy with the following version (with no other python files) but there has been work on improving it for the next release.
    • Intern starting on Oct 1st
  • Infra & Releases
    • Preparing 6.7.3 (waiting for qt release)
    • Commercial LTS 6.5.7 to be released soon (changelog pending to be merged)
    • qtpip 0.1.3 to be released soon.
  • Bugs & Features
    • Updating and completing documentation
    • PYSIDE-2870 fixed (QStateMachine.postEvent causes a crash)
    • Continue work on PythonScripting (Scrypt)
    • pyside6-deploy changes for QtDS projects + corresponding changes in upcoming DS releases (needs work by DS team)- https://codereview.qt-project.org/c/pyside/pyside-setup/+/592554
    • qtpip adaptation for newer pip versions + commercial wheel preference over lts wheels
    • Finance Manager Tutorial - https://codereview.qt-project.org/c/pyside/pyside-setup/+/592131
    • Type hints: Analysis for multi-signature problem (overloads). 600 errors -> 46 ! (from mypy)
      • override: inheritance issue with specific fields
      • overload/overlap: diff return types
      • some dunder methods might need special treatment.

19. September 2024

  • General
    • Promoting the idea of writing Python plugins for Qt/C++ interfaces.
      • we most probably rely on libshiboken for having consistency in the PythonScripting module and PySide
    • Participation in Meeting C++
    • PyCon Sweden participation
  • Infra & Releases
    • 6.2.13 Commercial LTS was released
    • qtpip update to be release in order to fix a few wheel names issues.
    • Preparing for 6.8.0, and 6.7.3
    • PySide6_DS 4.6 by the end of September
  • Bugs & Features
    • PYSIDE-2839 type hints for custom signals
    • PYSIDE-2846 Fixing a lot of type errors from examples and tests
      • Currently on one of the last big issues related to overloads, optional unions, false-positives
    • 6.7.3, 6.8.0 changelogs
    • Python 3.13 checks and fixing compatibilities
    • Continue work on PythonScripting (Scrypt)
    • PYSIDE-2863 lupdate issue
    • PYSIDE-2845 snake_case conflict with C++ API
    • Fixing examples deprecations
    • Updating generated UI files
    • Working on a new tutorial to mix PySide with other Python modules
    • qtpip fixing resolution for naming and JSON new structure
    • QMLNext research continues

12. September 2024

  • General
    • Team back from Qt Contributor summit
  • Infra & Releases
    • Preparing 6.7.3
    • Preparing 6.2.13
    • Starting to switch to 6.8
  • Bugs & Features
    • Release Notes in documentation change read. Could be targeted for 6.8.
    • Currently working on a QtQuick Finance-Manager tutorial using PySide6 as frontend, and FastApi + Pydantic + SqlAlchemy as backend. This will be a 4 part tutorial with each part extending the previous one.
    • PYSIDE-2846 - towards MyPy testing of type hints
      • Good progress in different error categories. Crucial was to make defaults hashable.
      • First removal of duplications was quite effective. More difficult removals are "same type, different variable name" etc.
      • Overlapping signatures need a deep analysis. From 601 errors down to 294.
    • PYSIDE-2859 Implemented QAbstractItemModel::multiData/QModelRoleDataSpan
    • PYSIDE-2861 Fixed pyside6-project with relative paths for lupdate
    • Fixed some compiler warnings/clang-tidy

05. September 2024

  • General
    • Team mostly at QtCS
  • Infra & Releases
    • Starting to switch to 6.8
  • Bugs & Features
    • Fixed a potential memory corruption in enum converter generation
    • PYSIDE-2851 Tricky bug with @Slot(name=) no working. Still investigating.
    • Adapting deployment and other things to 6.8. Some existing bugs and ToDo were solved.
    • Working on creating a "Release Notes" page in Qfp documentation parsing from 'doc/changelogs'
    • Competitor research for potential new features

29. August 2024

  • General
    • Continue discussion on a better qml integration
  • Bugs & Features
    • Added pyside6-svgtoqml - 6.8
    • Added missing binaries to 6.8. This include some QtQuick modules.
    • Deprecated ToDo fixed in pyside6-deploy
    • Updated Nuitka version to 2.4.8
    • Code Design simplification of pyside6-deploy
    • PYSIDE-2835 - error message setup in pyside6-deploy. Issue raised in Nuitka.
    • PYSIDE-2846 - towards MyPy testing of type hints
      • Reformatted helper functions in generate_pyi with class methods
      • Changed all typing classes to have prefix "typing" against name clashes (tricky)
      • Started systematic fixture of errors: 533 in 7 categories (was 601 before prefix). Seeking general fixture algorithms.
    • PYSIDE-2701 Add a Benchmark batch script to measure progress

22. August 2024

15. August 2024

  • General
    • Bug fixing weekS (2 weeks)
    • Planning for future work on QtDS
  • Infra & Releases
    • Fixing an issue to properly discover the installed WebEngine
    • Note: 6.5 aarch64 releases are only around for PySide, not Qt/C++.
    • Continue work on libclang pre-built on windows arm64
  • Bugs & Features
    • PYSIDE-2833 Doc changes: qml tutorials, re-gen docs to fix
    • Updated Qt Python Scripting (QtPyScript? name to be confirmed)
    • 6.7.3 changelog preparation
    • Adjusting branches, because of missing patches.
    • pyi: fixing more issues
    • research on improving the qml + python interaction

8. August 2024

  • General
    • Talk accepted for KDE Akademy: "Pythonizing Qt"
    • Qt Contributor summit session to work with people from the Squish team.
    • An intern will most probably join the team.
  • Infra & Releases
    • PySide6_DS will remain being available only for Windows/Linux x86_64 and macOS universal, no aarch64 for Linux
    • Research continues on Windows arm64
  • Bugs & Features
    • PYSIDE-2384 Enum as Sequences issues on Python 3.11
    • Signal Manager massive refactoring
    • qmlimportscanner new option to exclude directories (for our tooling)
    • PYSIDE-2833 loadFromModule should be used for QML projects
    • Fixes in the documentation
    • 6.8 adaption
    • Create the KDE documentation for using the PySide BaseApp for Flatpak (on review)
    • Improving the documentation, getting ideas from other frameworks/projects. We will try to keep old links working with some alias, and fixing many broken links.
    • Continue fixing pyi issues
    • Discussion on the next steps on the QtDS integration

2. August 2024

25. July 2024

  • General
    • Plan with some brainstorming ideas from last session.
  • Infra & Releases
    • tqtc/dev branch still broken. Waiting for Finland to come back from vacation :D
    • DS wheels still need to be tested
  • Bugs & Features
    • arm64 shiboken generator not properly working (libclang)
    • flatpak support: patch was merged, and there were a couple of issues that have a possible fix. After that, the KDE documentation will be modified in order to offer the option for users to use PySide as well.
    • scikit-build research
    • signature compression research: dealing with some last details.
      • fullname field, and compression of the strings.
    • no-gil research will re-start next month, in order to address the new changes from cpython
    • Type hints issues being worked out.


18. July 2024

  • General
    • We got a talk accepted at Akademy 2024.
    • September 11th is the limit to submit features for PySide 6.8.0
  • Infra & Releases
    • Flaky macOS failures were addressed
    • PySide6 Design Studio wheels to be tested
  • Bugs & Features
    • Work on PYSIDE-2701 - Binary size reduction
      • LZMA compression moved to ZLIB and C++. Compression on Windows 8.7 %, macOS 4.7 %
      • Study of pybind11/nanobind continues.
      • Overlap with PYSIDE-2404: Startup time optimization of ZLIB compression almost ready.
    • Finding some use-cases from PySide users during EuroPython.
    • Flatpak recipes are ready to be tested, meaning projects relying on flatpak (like KDE) will be able to use PySide in their builds :D
    • macOS multimedia missing plugins.
    • QtWebView might be added for completeness.
    • Feedback from EuroPython: More tutorials, and examples with applied cases, rather than too basic or too advanced ones.

11. July 2024

  • General
    • Two members of the team at Europython
  • Bugs & Features
    • Work on PYSIDE-2701 - Binary size reduction
      • An LZMA compressor has been written in Python and C++ with 4.5% win.
      • Reimplementation in C++ only is even easier. (when considered worth it)
      • Study of pybind11/nanobind implementation
    • Work on PYSIDE-2803 - qmlimportscanner and Windows cmd line length limitation
    • Refactoring and cleanup of the Signals/Slot handling code
    • Added missing libraries for the QtMultiMedia ffmpeg plugin on macOS

4. July 2024

  • General
    • Next week, two members of the team will be at Europython
    • Don't forget QtWS 2025 submissions (Until first days of August)
    • We might get the help from an intern.
  • Infra & Releases
  • Bugs & Features
    • Fixed PYSIDE-2790: Implemented task "uncancelling" and cancel count mechanism
    • Fixed PYSIDE-2799: Turns out cancelling handles when cancelling tasks can cause issues
    • PYSIDE-2798 might not be (easily) fixable entirely
      • Qt and asyncio collide when Qt shuts everything down too early for asyncio's liking, e.g. when closing the window.
      • Setting keep_running=True is probably a suitable workaround.
    • Submitted cherry-picks to 6.7 for a number of changes (mostly QtAsyncio) where the pick-to line was forgotten
    • PYSIDE-2701 activities:
      • implemented removal of the fullName field
      • started implementation of common function end replacement
      • started work on SignatureStrings compression with LZMA
    • PYSIDE-2793 (PYSIDE-1057) Memory leak in slot connection. Some were fixed, but there is still one that's very old (PYSIDE-79)
    • singleShot newly added signature has some complications when disconnected
    • NumPy 2.0 compatibility patches were merged.
    • Signal Handling research and review
    • PYSIDE-2192 Input hook handling (for matplotlib) was addressed thank to some suggestion.
    • PYSIDE-2805 Suggestion overload QMessageBox.open for passing a new slot.
    • 6.8 Adaption continues.
    • PYSIDE-2803 support bug on windows with pyside6-deploy command too long
    • Flatpak: shiboken is building, but pyside has some issues still.
    • Research on windows arm64
    • Testing DS packages

27. June 2024

  • General
    • Python language summit blog posts.
  • Infra & Releases
    • Android wheels configuration is running OK.
    • Feature freeze for 6.8 on September 11 (for Qt/C++ RC release)
    • Tweaks for the Qt for Python deployment internal guide for Raspberry Pi.
  • Bugs & Features
    • QtDS: packages ready to go out after CI configuration.
    • QtDS: export option within the tool planned in 2 weeks.
    • qmlnext: the issue with the example task was find and solved.
    • PYSIDE-2786 Preparation (future statement) of new syntax for Python 3.9
      • then checkin of deferred 3.10 changes was done.
    • PYSIDE-2701 activities:
      • Removal of generated fullname field (in progress)
      • Further analysis of possible folding savings
      • Revived the 2019 PySide 2 comparison viewer
    • PYSIDE-2795 FreeCAD problem was solved.
    • PYSIDE-2792 Nested class QMetaObject::Connection (for custom Connection classes)
    • 6.8 QtGraph examples. The module keeps changing.
    • PYSIDE-2793 memory leak on modbus client.
    • Nuitka upgrade 2.3.7: issues with Python 3.12 were fixed.
    • Some new issues and limitations on the android ci conf (building python from source)
    • Flatpak task continues, and people from KDE is involved in the discussion.
    • pyside6-deploy support case with command line length limitations
    • PYSIDE-2790 Few new bug reports related to QtAsyncio: uncancel not implemented.
    • QtAsyncio cancel errors are not propagated.

20. June 2024

  • General
    • Interviews going on for a new position and internship.
  • Infra & Releases
    • 6.7.2 was released last Tuesday
    • QtDS package is currently awaiting approval from the team.
  • Bugs & Features
    • Android wheels patch integrating. Windows signing issue hopefully fixed.
    • PYSIDE-2781 - Nuitka sporadic failure with Python 3.12. Collaborating with Kay, and with help from ctismer, the issue is fixed. Was caused due to bytecode handling of Nuitka.
    • PYSIDE-2702 - Flatpak progressing. Discussion with QtCreator led to the impression that an Flatpak extension would be better than Flatpak Baseapp.
      • This enable PySide6 to be bundled with the QtCreator flatpak app
    • Follow-up patches from the internal QtAsyncio presentation.
    • There are two functions in asyncio that are not properly documented.
    • Type hints:
      • Discussion about updating the generator, in order to use 3.10+ notation (even if we are compatible with 3.9). Possibility to use 'from __future__ import annotations'
    • PYSIDE-2701 - Binary reduction approach ideas
    • QtDS exporting python files will be started soon.
    • Improved QML integration being studied.


13. June 2024

  • General
    • Python 3.9 story: the decision was made without considering that 3.9 is still getting security releases, so we have decided to keep supporting Python 3.9 for PySide 6.8 LTS, but we might drop it in the middle of some bug-fix releases.
      • Things that are considered to support certain python versions are: Internal CI Python versions for each OS, Python version lifecycle https://devguide.python.org/versions/, features that will improve user experience from new versions.
      • Python stubs (pyi) might be compatible with 3.10+
    • Qt Group is sponsoring EuroPython 2024: and we will give a talk!
  • Infra & Releases
    • 6.7.2 packages are ready to be released.
    • Boot2Qt had a few issues that were solved.
    • Starting process to test windows arm64 (discussion around libclang)
    • Nightly builds:
      • Possible solution for linux and macOS arm64 android builds.
      • Maybe also for non-unity builds? it has been failing in some corner cases.
      • We could have dev-android branch so we don't block the normal dev development.
      • nightly builds merge automatically if everything passes.
      • PyPy integrations might join a similar configuration as well.
  • Bugs & Features
    • Android wheels from macOS host through coin successful. Assembling the final patch. Coin still running tests for an Android build and error-ing still needs to be resolved.
    • PYSIDE-2702 - Flatpak base app implementation started.
    • PYSIDE-2781 - pyside6-deploy failure investigation ongoing. Could be a Nuitka issue. User using the latest Nuitka.
    • Working on improve our typing implementations.
    • QtAsyncio: internal presentation including the theory behind and some live examples.
    • Lazy load: disabled for PyPy, fixing some shiboken-tests
    • QtScrypt: development continues
    • PYSIDE-2780 refcount bug in the lazy import fixed
    • PYSIDE-2751 3.13 compatibility patches are ready, nogil under development
    • PYSIDE-2701 reduction of binary sizes under investigation, estimating the achievable reduction

06. June 2024

  • General
    • Maintenance work next week will keep the CI offline (Monday morning, phase I + Wednesday, phase II)
    • PySide 6.8 will support Python 3.10+
    • Must read https://peps.python.org/pep-0741/
  • Infra & Releases
    • Some issues with the macOS CI units.
    • Local raspberry pi 4 (aarch64) for testing: 10.9.78.82
    • qtpip 0.1.2 release: mostly issues around the commercial version tag and the usage of '+' and '.'
    • 6.5.6 commercial LTS was released.
    • 6.7.2 release will happen soon (due to an issue with designer)
    • the Python 3.9 macOS CI configuration will be updated to 3.11, and the windows with 3.11 will be updated to 3.12
  • Bugs & Features
    • https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-2622 - Standalone mode for Deployment as per many requests from users
    • Deployment tests fixed with a custom PySide6 build. There might be corner cases that were missed.
    • https://codereview.qt-project.org/c/pyside/pyside-setup/+/537466 ready, but waiting for macOS x86_64 to update Python to 3.11 - https://codereview.qt-project.org/c/qt/qt5/+/565565/4 (Thanks Simo)
    • Patches ready for updating python syntax to drop typing.Optional (and use | instead) that will go in once we drop 3.9
    • Preparing presentation and improvements to QtAsyncio
    • PYSIDE-2440 will be prepared.
    • op codes changing in Python, is altering some of our internal implementation, like the forgiveness mode.
    • https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-2751 planned work for the no-gil feature in Python 3.13
    • smart pointers with lazy loading were not working, but a fix was merged.
    • Qt Designer had a regression that motivated 6.7.2
    • Qt 6.8 adaption taking a lot of work due to doc changes and QtGraphs
    • PYSIDE-2772 issue ended up being a user problem

30. May 2024

  • General
    • PySide 6.8 will most probably support Python 3.10+
    • Evaluating arm64 wheels for Windows
  • Infra & Releases
    • Discussion about the Qt for Python in boot2qt
    • PyPy releases has been on hold due to some internal CI problems.
    • Commercial packages will now be available on the following day after community packages.
    • qtpip is planned to support aarch64
    • 6.5.6 commercial lts will be released next week
  • Bugs & Features

23. May 2024

  • General
  • Infra & Releases
    • Preparing 6.7.1 with a lot of fixes
    • 5.15.17 LTS released
  • Bugs & Features
    • PYSIDE-2747 Fixed PySide to run on Fedora 40 with 3.12-3
    • PYSIDE-2749 Worked on a performance regression related to Lazy Init
    • PYSIDE-2758 Added QQuickWebEngineProfile.setUrlRequestInterceptor()
    • PYSIDE-2762 Fixed a type hinting bug
    • Brushed up and fixed a few examples
    • 6.8 Adaption
    • Python 3.13 check
    • PYSIDE-2751 Python 3.13 first step towards --disable-gil compatibility (no ob_refcnt)
    • pyside6-deploy. Ignore files with .webp, .cpp.o, .qsb and .qen extension as Nuitka errors with them.
    • Close to macOS cross compilation

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
    • PYSIDE-2745 - Fixed a bug with exceptions in 0-delay singleShot timer slots
    • PYSIDE-2404 - Lazy Loading completed by supporting subtypes. This gives 8-9% more performance.
    • Support for Python 3.13 started - first compatibility before switching to disable-gil
    • Possibilities explored to lazy load signatures or save space.

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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