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== 2018 ==


==== 19. April 2018 ====
==2024==


- COIN finally back in working shape
=== 31. October 2024 ===
- Further fixes for documentation, module pages, experimentally tried to show in Qt Assistant
- Tab Browser example further improved
- Qt for Python blog posts being worked on
- Continued working on WebEngine issues
- Some investigation and preparations to make WebEngine apps work with PyInstaller (very early phase, still doesn't work)
- Pending patch for QtWebEngineCore bindings
- Installation adjustments for standalone builds on Windows
- Heap types are complete. Starting integration with PEP 384.


==== 12. April 2018 ====
* General
- Getting Started guide under works by doc engineer
** Bug Fixing week
- focus on fixing coin on Mac & RedHat 7.4 (looks promising so far)
* Infra & Releases
- shiboken documentation and diagrams being updated
** 5.15 integration was solved (Python 2 related) - 5.15.18 commercial LTS will be soon available.
  - old and unused docs dir shall be cleaned out
** Closing a few CI related bugs.
- Tab Browser example improved
** Debian 11 ARM configuration replaced by ubuntu 24.04
- License page generated based on attribution files
** Qt 6.8.1 by the end of next month
- lots of discussion when to release Qt for Python TP
** SBOM changes will land in our repositories at some point
  - after Qt 5.11 release (scheduled for 31.5.)
* Bugs & Features
  - likely to be mid June (stay tuned)
** Documentation improvements (nesting inner classes into some modules)
- WebEngine issues
** doc: Adding a ad-hoc hack with a fake headline in order to get good search results
  - needs updated qt.conf files to be deployed for apps
** QPyS: Adapting for shared pointer
- Heap types (work in progress)
** Fixing the __all__ re-definition that we have in our PySide6/__init__.py
- still more work in pipeline to get code PEP 384 ready (Heap types are prerequisite)
** Windows Debug Builds are showing a few issues
- Qt for Python blog posts being worked on


==== 5. April 2018 ====
=== 24. October 2024 ===
- first doc snapshot is up and running: https://doc-snapshots.qt.io/qtforpython/
- more work to be done to automate generation of snapshots
- briefly talked about technical blog post opportunities
- pdb files from Windows wheels removed (reducing the wheel size)
- improving the tab browser example
- coin currently not accepting changes
  - currently lots of pending patches start to create backlog
- Heap type taking longer than expected
- qApp macro reference leaks finally resolved
- quite a few formatting changes to enforce a common coding style
- lots of smaller fixes


==== 29. March 2018 ====
* General
- skipped due to Easter holidays
** Planning to make QtPythonScripting out.
** QMLNext planning continues.
* Infra & Releases
** 6.8.0.2 might go out soon considering the last issues that were discovered. Also to include the fix for the directory that made it incompatible with qtpip.
** 5.15.18 Commercial LTS will be released by the end of the month
* Bugs & Features
** New maps demo is working.
** Multimedia: Now we are using the plugins from the CI provisioning.
** Reproducible builds for yocto.
** 6.8.0 regression from the re-write of the signal&slot mechanism.
** 'QPyS' (QtPythonScripting) work continues.
*** Ownership will not be an issue, because objects will live in C++.
*** smart pointers support are required for a QtC integration
*** From lua: they do have a way of use different pointers for the variables.
*** be careful with dynamic_cast
*** A sub-set of classes are exposed to lua only, so we might follow a similar approach.
*** Documentation is being updated
** Updates to the new tutorials (PySide + other Python modules)
** qtpip research on a staging option
** VSCode extension: discussions on the PySide integration for the recently announced addon.
** PYSIDE-2895 __all__ reproducible builds for Yocto
** PYSIDE-2903 issues with '# type:' in the stubs
** PYSIDE-2846 Adding documentation for the mypy support


==== 22. March 2018 ====
=== 17. October 2024 ===
- Release process (do we follow Qt?)
* General
  - Release manager provides packages
** 6.8.0.1 is fully compatible with Python 3.13.0, but the meta info of the wheels was wrong.
  - RTA testing to be setup -> for each package we run RTA
** New intern joined the company, and will be helping with QtDS + Qt for Python integration
  - Request to be put on mailing list
* Infra & Releases
  - Current Test setup proposal
** PySide 6.5.7 (commercial LTS) and 6.8.0 (6.8.0.1) were released
    - Win10 (Python 3.6)
** 6.4.0 release was removed from PyPI (due to the existence of 6.4.0.1)
    - Linux (Python 3.6/2.7)
** qtpip 0.1.4 was released
    - Mac (Python 3.6/2.7)
** Maintenance break in our CI: a few security changes were applied and we have new restrictions regarding the installation of other repositories
  - To be defined a test set (//TODO)
** New limits will be requested to PyPI
  - Testing information to be collected in wiki
** Symbolic links in the macOS wheels are being copied a couple of times and not preserved.
- Documentation
** libclang in our provisioning increased size, so we need to double check the wheel size.
  - QML advanced tutorial documentation updated
** Multimedia plugins on Windows are being copied to the wheel, they might be copied from install directly.
  - Landing page in the works
* Bugs & Features
  - snapshot still delayed by other qdoc bugs
** Finished the mypy checks and adding tests, hopefully merged soon.
  - style sheet update considered
*** in-place asymmetry seems to be an issue with some signatures.
  - so far only dealt with class docs, started to include unrelated doc pages
** PYSIDE-2891 32bit builds where broken, even if they are not supported it was addressed
- snapshot testing (angle & webengine not properly packaged on Windows)
** PYSIDE-2893 6.8.0 doc regression was fixed
- enum support improved (dealing with scoped enums and enum values)
** PYSIDE-2804 Custom enumerations in Qt Designer (not possible)
- general bugfixing to increase stability and address mem leaks
** Qt 6.9 adaption in progress
- Talks to PyData submitted
** OpenStreetMap demo being ported
- Qt Charts examples ported
** Qt Scripting polishing a bit further
- Proper support for QFlags being worked on
** PYSIDE-2835 closed issue wrt sql+nuitka that broke after a new nuitka release.
- [https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-595 PYSIDE-595] fixed
** Continue work on the Finances tutorial
- [https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-595 PYSIDE-595] first heap type protoype under review proving that concept works
** pyside6-deploy command line simplification in progress
- [https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-560 PYSIDE-560] depends on PYSIDE-595
- CI side
  - coin did Python updates which temporarily broke Linux wheels
  - briefly discussed manylinux request on mailing list (Qt forms bottom line, no point to extend beyond scope of Qt)
  - final list of wheels for release (win, linux, mac) x 2 (2.7 & 3.x Python)


==== 15. March 2018 ====
=== 10. October 2024===
- Fix to create 3.6 Linux wheels under review.
* General
- Fix scriptableapplication build on Windows, and other small bugs.
* Infra & Releases
- Two QtCharts examples were ported and abstracts were written to submit PyData talks
** Preparing 6.8
- Updating the QML advanced tutorial and adding index.rst and gettingstarted.rst
** Preparing 6.5.7
- Tried the wheel pkgs for python 27 on Linux. Works OK except the webengine example, which gives random crashes.
* Bugs & Features
  - Docs: [https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-620 PYSIDE-620 Shadow build issue] fixed, fixed usage of deprecated Sphinx API,
** [https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-2885 PYSIDE-2885] Fix build against  read-only Qt
  - Continued on [https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-560 PYSIDE-560], currently  Windows problem with Linkage
** [https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-2883 PYSIDE-2883] Fix incomplete/undocumented QtWebEngine API
- Debugging on [https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-595 PYSIDE-595], final stages
** Last minute fixes for 6.8, new QtWebEngine API
- Fixed [https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-258 PYSIDE-258]
** Continue work on PythonScripting (Scrypt)
** [https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-2850 PYSIDE-2850] More work on the Finance Manager Tutorial
** pyside6-android-deploy fix for 6.8.0, and adding a new option to cross-compile tool to just download Android NDK and SDK.
** Update pyside6-android-deploy documentaion.


==== 08. March 2018 ====
=== 3. October 2024===
- msvcrt.dll to be shipped on Windows
* General
- wheel snapshots are automatically generated
* Infra & Releases
  - start with public availability under http://download.qt.io/snapshots/ci/
** Preparing for 6.8
  - snapshots to public pypi server under discussions
* Bugs & Features
- discussion on how to increase value of official pyside mailing list http://lists.qt-project.org/mailman/listinfo/pyside
** Various documentation fixes
- looking at build issues on Windows (improving error handling)
** Continue work on PythonScripting (Scrypt)
- Participation in Python User Group meeting in Berlin (https://www.meetup.com/Python-Users-Berlin-PUB/events/xhqwhpyxfblb/)
** Porting further C++ demos
- [https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-595 PYSIDE-595] - Heap Type conversions ongoing
** pyside6-deploy support for design studio
  - test bed created for easier development
** qtpip support for Android wheels
- [https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-363 Documentation]
** Update flatpak baseapp to 6.7.3
  -> Managed to make libxml, libxsl an optional dependency falling back to QtXmlPatterns (despite [https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/QTBUG-66925 QTBUG-66925])
  -> Small fixes to doc modifications
  -> Fix class inheritance diagrams for nested classes


==== 01. March 2018 ====
=== 26. September 2024===
- automatic snapshot process almost in place (pending reviews) (RTA to follow)
- general bug fixing (including build and version problems)
- most community Pyside1 pages point to official Pyside 2 (Qt for Python) wiki pages
- [https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-595 PYSIDE-595] - Heap Type conversions ongoing
- documentation improving
  -> class diagrams being generated
  -> missing links and references
  -> dependencies to qdoc bugs
  -> snapshot process in works
- added support for scoped enums in pyside
- Important things discussed:
  - PySide2 versioning (current proposal WIP patch at https://codereview.qt-project.org/#/c/221767/)
    - Do official releases follow Qt branch names? -
      -> yes (minor release of Pyside is bound to same minor release of Qt
      -> patch level version may differ
    - Will we have snapshots, and if so, will they be uploaded to pip? How will we handle snapshot versions?
      -> tentative yes, if public pip server supports snapshots Pyside should be good citizen
    - alpha / beta / RC versioning?
      -> Pyside should follow the Qt schema
    - Probably need to take into account PEPs for versions pushed to Pypi.
    - Shiboken / PySide2 versions in sync?
      -> yes, they should be in sync
    - Will we specify a version for 5.6 branch?
      -> yes, but no packages being made
    - Are we sticking to the package name PySide2, but follow Qt 5.x versions as PySide2 versions?
      -> Pyside2_5.11.0 as in https://codereview.qt-project.org/#/c/221767/
  - Do we want to deploy msvcrt dlls into Windows packages?
    -> needs more research - is it really needed ?
  - Do we want to ship debug symbols for Qt inside the PySide2 packages?
    -> not for now
  - Do we want to ship debug Qt shared libraries for macOS packages? (not possible on Windows, not applicable on Linux afaik).
    -> not for now
  - How will the pip upload process look like? Manual uploads? Who takes care of it?
    -> Qt release team will take care of it
  - Current branching policies:
    -> 5.6 branch stops being merged into 5.9 (after pending patches have merged) -> cherry-pick mode
    -> 5.9 is base line for patches and being forward merged to 5.11
    -> no packages from 5.9 & 5.6 (interested parties need to get it from git)
    -> 5.11 becomes branch for first TP
    -> dev is feature development
    -> all first TP release related patches go to 5.9 (and 5.11 subsequently)


==== 22. February 2018 ====
* General
- dev branch is still/again broken in CI, seems like pyside issues
** Python Scripting: We might need to figure out ownership in order to embed into other C++ apps.
- changes to create automatic snapshots out of CI is still under review
** 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.
- Numerous small fixes to the [https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-363 doc] generation, significantly bringing down the number of documentation warnings
** Intern starting on Oct 1st
- Massaged build rules to improve built packages
* Infra & Releases
  - Removed unnecessary _utils.py file [https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-600 PYSIDE-600]
** Preparing 6.7.3 (waiting for qt release)
  - Changed wheel package names to contain both PySide2 version and Qt version against which it was built [https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-613 PYSIDE-613]
** Commercial LTS 6.5.7 to be released soon (changelog pending to be merged)
  - Finally got libclang to be deployed into packages
** qtpip 0.1.3 to be released soon.
  - Improved build process not to copy unnecessary symlinks and duplicating libraries when creating wheel (so that you don't get 3x size increase because of 3x number of WebEngine libraries) [https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-495 PYSIDE-495]
* Bugs & Features
  - Fixed wheel package names to contain correct minimum deployment target with which macOS was built with (on further analysis, this will need further improvement) [https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-612 PYSIDE-612]
** Updating and completing documentation
  - Fixed rpath handling for QtWebEngineProcess when creating standalone packages on macOS [https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-605 PYSIDE-605]
** [https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-2870 PYSIDE-2870] fixed (QStateMachine.postEvent causes a crash)
- Added CMake build rules for scriptable application example [https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-597 PYSIDE-597]
** Continue work on PythonScripting (Scrypt)
- Investigated and fixed a heap corruption bug in a test that caused constant crashes on macOS CI runs
** 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
- Reduced number of warnings when running shiboken to create user bindings (like scriptable application example) [https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-587 PYSIDE-587]
** qtpip adaptation for newer pip versions + commercial wheel preference over lts wheels
- [https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-595 PYSIDE-595]: Making slow progress, still debugging. It's a difficult process, but assumption is that it will work.
** Finance Manager Tutorial - https://codereview.qt-project.org/c/pyside/pyside-setup/+/592131
- Havent's merge [https://codereview.qt-project.org/#/c/220083/ this new patch] because we should be 200% sure it's properly working.
** Type hints: Analysis for multi-signature problem (overloads). 600 errors -> 46 ! (from mypy)
- Working on a few bugs [https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-106 PYSIDE-106] [https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-570 PYSIDE-570]
*** override: inheritance issue with specific fields
- One of the bugs [https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-611 PYSIDE-611] was valid only for 5.6, but I noticed a strange behaviour on 5.9, so I will keep working on it, even after we move 5.6 to cherry pick mode.
*** overload/overlap: diff return types
*** some dunder methods might need special treatment.


==== 15. February 2018 ====
=== 19. September 2024===
- CI broken, 5.6 & dev branch broken, 5.9 just got working again
- first TP will be 5.11 based (needs 5.11 git branches, 5.6 branch goes into cherry-pick mode, 5.9 branch remains main target)
- more modules added to doc, qt3d & qtquick has some special handling
- snippet work ongoing
- snapshot generation on the agenda
- lots of bug fixing e.g.: [https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-104 PYSIDE-104]
- [https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-560 PYSIDE-560]


==== 8. February 2018 ====
* General
- Looking through previous EuroPython talks to write a proposal for this year.        
** Promoting the idea of writing Python plugins for Qt/C++ interfaces.
- Working on a few bugs (fixed a couple related to objects references),               
*** we most probably rely on libshiboken for having consistency in the PythonScripting module and PySide
  - that sadly will open new issues with memory management. A further analysis on this matter could improve the current memory leaks on PySide.                          
** Participation in Meeting C++
- Trying to "organise" a little the typesystem XML files.                              
** PyCon Sweden participation
- Working on [https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-104 PYSIDE-104] that ended up being a general issue on PySide about a proper verification between slots and signals arguments, to find the best match.
* Infra & Releases
- Merged a few build related changes in 5.6
** 6.2.13 Commercial LTS was released
  - Pending change for [https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-593 PYSIDE-593]
** qtpip update to be release in order to fix a few wheel names issues.
  - Pending change for [https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-605 PYSIDE-605]
** Preparing for 6.8.0, and 6.7.3
  - Merged changes for [https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-603 PYSIDE-603] and [https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-604 PYSIDE-604]
** PySide6_DS 4.6 by the end of September
- Investigated and attached minimal reproducible example for [https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-585 PYSIDE-585]
* Bugs & Features
- Investigated some macOS build related aspects for package release
** PYSIDE-2839 type hints for custom signals
- 5.6 CI is unblocked, but 5.9 CI is blocked due to qtbase issues (version bumping)
** PYSIDE-2846 Fixing a lot of type errors from examples and tests
- [https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-560 PYSIDE-560] waiting for view
*** Currently on one of the last big issues related to overloads, optional unions, false-positives
- [https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-595 PYSIDE-595] work ongoing, not ready yet
** 6.7.3, 6.8.0 changelogs
- [https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-363 PYSIDE-363]  Documentation: Fixed images, fix handling of qdocconf files that contain several modules. Looking at snippet resolution.
** Python 3.13 checks and fixing compatibilities
- Problems with Qt3D due to refactoring of Qt3Dextras in 5.10. Pushed  [https://codereview.qt-project.org/#/c/219105/ patch] suggestion.
** 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


==== 1. February 2018 ====
=== 12. September 2024===
- Continued work on documentation [https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-363 PYSIDE-363], fixed static pages, add more modules, fixed parameters to qdoc, images
* General
- The GettingStarted wiki is getting better, besides a cleaning it a bit
** Team back from Qt Contributor summit
  - moved the topics around to have guidelines by supported platform (''a la Qt'')
* Infra & Releases
  - have received feedback and trying to add more information
** Preparing 6.7.3
- Addressed bugs:
** Preparing 6.2.13
  - [https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-34 PYSIDE-34]
** Starting to switch to 6.8
  - [https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-264 PYSIDE-264]
* Bugs & Features
  - cleaning a bit Shiboken's XML files.
** Release Notes in documentation change read. Could be targeted for 6.8.
  - [https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-560 PYSIDE-560]
** 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.  
    - ported to 5.9, extended to 18 header files
** [https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-2846 PYSIDE-2846] - towards MyPy testing of type hints
    - solved unicode problem
*** Good progress in different error categories. Crucial was to make defaults hashable.
    - reduced the patches to be minimal (avoid many #ifdef's, use a verbose macro name if possible)
*** First removal of duplications was quite effective. More difficult removals are "same type, different variable name" etc.
    - made everything compile but one announced file: "object.h" depends on the heaptypes solution ([https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-595 PYSIDE-595]). Removed WIP status,review pending.
*** Overlapping signatures need a deep analysis. From 601 errors down to 294.
  - [https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-595 PYSIDE-595]
** [https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-2859 PYSIDE-2859] Implemented QAbstractItemModel::multiData/QModelRoleDataSpan
    - Started experimenting
** [https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-2861 PYSIDE-2861] Fixed pyside6-project with relative paths for lupdate
    - turned out that the signature extension barfed because it could no longer find the type "__name__". The function PyType_Type.tp_new needs to be called to provide the "ht_name" attribute that is used in heaptypes.
** Fixed some compiler warnings/clang-tidy
- solving the attribution file issues.
- Pending patches to fix libICU issues
- Pending patches to fix OpenSSL issues [https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-599 PYSIDE-599]
- Pending patches to deploy libclang library for shiboken
- Improved documentation about OpenSSL dependency
- Pending patches for cleaning up build scripts a bit (logging and refactoring)
- Pending patches to reduce barrage of warnings [https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-587 PYSIDE-587]
- Pending patch for adding CMake build rules for the scriptable_application example (useful as a reference on how to use shiboken for custom bindings) [https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-597 PYSIDE-597]
- Old 5.6 CI integration issue fix, but a new issue appeared that was fixed for 5.9 and dev, but still blocks 5.6
- Updated the qml basics tutorial


==== 25. January 2018 ====
=== 05. September 2024===
- Pyside not renamed
* General
- Releasing preparation
** Team mostly at QtCS
  - pip packages created by coin
* Infra & Releases
  - Automated release testing (RTA) (installing pip, launching an example)
** Starting to switch to 6.8
  - final selection of release package targets to be define closer to release (depending on current stable ABI work)
* Bugs & Features
- Investigation doc issues when using prefix & shadow builds
** Fixed a potential memory corruption in enum converter generation
- Need to identify prime demos/examples
** [https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-2851 PYSIDE-2851] Tricky bug with @Slot(name=) no working. Still investigating.
- Started to rework [[PySide2 GettingStarted|Getting Started Guide]] wiki
** Adapting deployment and other things to 6.8. Some existing bugs and ToDo were solved.
- Addressed cmake build issues
** Working on creating a "Release Notes" page in Qfp documentation parsing from 'doc/changelogs'
- Handling libICU issues (causing linker issues when importing QtCore)
** Competitor research for potential new features
- Continued work on [https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-560 PYSIDE-560]


==== 18. January 2018 ====
=== 29. August 2024===
  - macOS framework fix (should ignore qt4 system headers)
* General
  - another patch on top to fix OpenGL integer types on mac / Linux (GLuint64, GLint64)
** Continue discussion on a better qml integration
  - Fixed so that PySide 5.6/5.9 is not linked against the Python shared / static library (this was wrong because the symbols need to be picked up by the dynamic loader from the python interpreter itself). http://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-522
* Bugs & Features
  - Completed move of examples from pyside-examples.git to pyside-setup
** Added pyside6-svgtoqml - 6.8
  - added additional OpenGL2 core example
** Added missing binaries to 6.8. This include some QtQuick modules.
  - fixed testrunner (these silently failed since forever) https://codereview.qt-project.org/#/c/216732/
** Deprecated ToDo fixed in pyside6-deploy
  - fixed issues whereby wrong QObject ctors were selected
** Updated Nuitka version to 2.4.8
  - removed webkit from Pyside2 build 
** Code Design simplification of pyside6-deploy
  - talk about Windows specific instructions for [[PySide2 GettingStarted|Getting Started Guide]]
** [https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-2835 PYSIDE-2835] - error message setup in pyside6-deploy. Issue raised in Nuitka.
  - Qt3D issues in Qt 5.10 fixes
** [https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-2846 PYSIDE-2846] - towards MyPy testing of type hints
  - clazy warning fixes
*** Reformatted helper functions in generate_pyi with class methods
  - Stable ABI work (started to convert implementations) (see [https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-560 PYSIDE-560])
*** Changed all typing classes to have prefix "typing" against name clashes (tricky)
    - requires adoption of HeapTypes
*** Started systematic fixture of errors: 533 in 7 categories (was 601 before prefix). Seeking general fixture algorithms.
  - QML tutorial updates
** [https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-2701 PYSIDE-2701] Add a Benchmark batch script to measure progress
  - Doc snapshots being prepared


==== 11. January 2018 ====
=== 22. August 2024===
- multi pyside packages (not easy to do)
* General
  - unlikely to achieve until TP
** Bug fixing week
  - a package per python release (3.4, 3.5, 3.6, 2.7)
** uv release 0.3.0 https://astral.sh/blog/uv-unified-python-packaging
  - package per platform (win 32bit|64bit, mac, linux)
** Tag strings https://discuss.python.org/t/pep-750-tag-strings-for-writing-domain-specific-languages/60408
  - long term task to convert to reduced Python API (to support multi 3x packages)
** discussion related to spy
  => have to cut some targets: one 3x and 2.7 release
* Infra & Releases
  -> create doc howto to encourage custom builds for not covered platform combo
** 6.2 issue with ".commercial" tag on the wheels
  -> do we need commercial for release
** dev will switch to 6.8.0 when the branch is ready.
- pysinstaller is an installer
* Bugs & Features
  -> deployqt tool not necessary
** PYSIDE-2786 Finished the 3.10 patch to support the new syntax for the pyi files.
  -> documentation required stating the option
** Enabling a process to test pyi with mypy
- rename import options
** Flatpak documentation was merged
  - rename via alias possible
** Typing issue related to QByteArray.fromRawData
  -> still an issue when looking up particular types but probably manageable 
** QtDS integration continues
  - renaming option: Qt4Pyton, QtPy, QtPython, Python4Qt, Qt
**
- example shift
  - https://codereview.qt-project.org/#/c/215900/
- Basics for doc generation toolchain
- Issues where cmake picks up platform Qt references where it should use a Qt custom install
- Qt3D bindings still under progress
- [https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-34 PYSIDE-34] & [https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-560 PYSIDE-560]
- Documentation
  - minor doc fixes
  - documenting examples


==== 4. January 2018 ====
=== 15. August 2024===
- multi pyside packages (not easy to do)
* General
- renaming Pyside to "Qt for Python"
** Bug fixing weekS (2 weeks)
  - quite challenging due to implied import and lib changes
** Planning for future work on QtDS
  - alias for existing imports would be beneficial
* Infra & Releases
- discussion around existing function test
** Fixing an issue to properly discover the installed WebEngine
  -> working assumption is that we ignore added function and check for existing base line only
** Note: 6.5 aarch64 releases are only around for PySide, not Qt/C++.
  -> effort too large to maintain every single new addition
** Continue work on libclang pre-built on windows arm64
- discussed issues around concurrent existing Qt builds while building pyside (potential cross leakage)
* Bugs & Features
- various fixes to doc generation steps (see [https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-363 PYSIDE-363])
** PYSIDE-2833 Doc changes: qml tutorials, re-gen docs to fix
- discussed need for good examples as part of documentation
** Updated Qt Python Scripting (QtPyScript? name to be confirmed)
  -> considered options to cleanup and remove need for submodule
** 6.7.3 changelog preparation
** Adjusting branches, because of missing patches.
** pyi: fixing more issues
** research on improving the qml + python interaction


== 2017 ==  
=== 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


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=== 2. August 2024===
* General
* Infra & Releases
** 6.8, 6.7.3 preparations
** "Qt Design Studio components for PySide6" wheels are now available from pypi.org. https://pypi.org/project/PySide6-DS/
* Bugs & Features
** Some pyi issues were fixed ( [https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-2788 PYSIDE-2788], [https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-2752 PYSIDE-2752] )
** [https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-2814 PYSIDE-2814] Deployment: spaces can now be used in extra_args
** [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


==== 21. December 2017 ====
=== 25. July 2024===
- Issues building for Windows for Python 2 and 3 (on coin)
* General
- discussing potential pyside demo/example for RTA purposes
** Plan with some brainstorming ideas from last session.
- Continued work on macOS / Qt 4 header issues, progress is there
* Infra & Releases
  - breaks GL signature test on Linux, needs further investigation
** tqtc/dev branch still broken. Waiting for Finland to come back from vacation :D
- Investigated PyInstaller (potential option to deploy apps written with Pyside)
** DS wheels still need to be tested
  - seems to work almost out-of-the-box for deploying PySide apps
* Bugs & Features
- Investigated building one package compatible with multiple Python 3.x minor versions
** arm64 shiboken generator not properly working (libclang)
  - not possible currently, will require a lot of work, possibly not feasible
** 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.
  => we need to build 3.4,3.5,3.6 * win, linux, mac packages = 9 packages
** scikit-build research
  => 3 more for each platform and Python 2.x
** signature compression research: dealing with some last details.
  => commercial packages?
*** fullname field, and compression of the strings.
- lots of discussions and fixing of doc tool chain (qdoc in dev currently broken)
** no-gil research will re-start next month, in order to address the new changes from cpython
  - adding documentation has begun in earnest
** Type hints issues being worked out.
- continued work on PYSIDE-578


==== 7. December 2017 ====
- pip wheel installation
  - adding support for simultaneously python 2 and 3 builds
  - open issues: test installation towards multi python 3 versions
  - delivery channel for Pyside binaries (pip server? local install from qt account download?)
- investigate options to have sth like pyinstallqt (pysinstaller is a possibility)
- final keyword support by shiboken
- Qt3D bindings patch close to completion - > requires some Qt changes in 5.9.4 or later Qt
- fixing pyside build issues when encountering Qt 4 headers on macOS
- PYSIDE-578 (testing procedure/testrunner) -> adds heuristic to adapt to failure rates (flakiness handling)
  - concerns that running all tests 5 times adds too much load on the CI (test runs needed)


==== 30. November 2017 ====
=== 18. July 2024===
- packaging related coin changes
* General
- last weeks merges between 5.6 and 5.9+ blocking coin have been fixed (in particular on RHEL)
** We got a talk accepted at Akademy 2024.
  - 5.9 + 5.6 are passing, dev has some private Qt changes which will affect pyside/dev
** September 11th is the limit to submit features for PySide 6.8.0
- lots of coin infrastructure issues
* Infra & Releases
- RTA test wheels added (install and launch single example)
** Flaky macOS failures were addressed
- crash bugs in 5.6 branch reported but not details known yet (waiting for more details)
** PySide6 Design Studio wheels to be tested
- some discussion what changes should be put to 5.6 vs 5.9 branch
* Bugs & Features
- Qt3D bindings started
** Work on [https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-2701 PYSIDE-2701] - Binary size reduction
  - some changes in qt3d/5.9 required)
*** LZMA compression moved to ZLIB and C++. Compression on Windows 8.7 %, macOS 4.7 %
  - shiboken bugs discovered in the process (virtual function guessing & some comparison operators for namespace generated)
*** Study of pybind11/nanobind continues.
- small regression related to rpath handling on Linux
*** Overlap with PYSIDE-2404: Startup time optimization of ZLIB compression almost ready.
- open pip wheel issues:
** Finding some use-cases from PySide users during EuroPython.
  - handling of multi Python version wheels
** Flatpak recipes are ready to be tested, meaning projects relying on flatpak (like KDE) will be able to use PySide in their builds :D
- testrunner bugs addressed and reducing flakiness
** macOS multimedia missing plugins.
- issues in Pyside when building with gcc 7.x
** QtWebView might be added for completeness.
- qdoc from qt5/dev is required for pyside due to webxml support
** Feedback from EuroPython: More tutorials, and examples with applied cases, rather than too basic or too advanced ones.
  - it is a problem for the pyside/5.9 branch


==== 23. November 2017 ====
=== 11. July 2024===
- pip wheel support issues on Linux solved (not yet verified)
* General
  -> libICU usage on Linux should be enabled via pyside setup script
** Two members of the team at Europython
  -> downloaded from qt account download area
* Bugs & Features
  - discussion how to do wheel builds for different Qt base lines -> implies to different wheel packages
** Work on [https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-2701 PYSIDE-2701] - Binary size reduction
  - need to evaluate how different python versions on various Linux distros impact wheel binaries
*** An LZMA compressor has been written in Python and C++ with 4.5% win.
  - target: 6 wheels (2 per platform for 2.7 & 3.5+ Python)
*** Reimplementation in C++ only is even easier. (when considered worth it)
  - OpenGL example
*** Study of pybind11/nanobind implementation
  - merge 5.6-> 5.9 attempted
** Work on [https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-2803 PYSIDE-2803] - qmlimportscanner and Windows cmd line length limitation
    - signature update to match Qt 5.9 ABI/signatures
** Refactoring and cleanup of the Signals/Slot handling code
    - plenty of testing flakiness and also test crashes
** Added missing libraries for the QtMultiMedia ffmpeg plugin on macOS
  - improvements to signature tests


==== 16. November 2017 ====
===4. July 2024===
- Build system cleanup. It is now possible to build only a subset of Qt modules per cmd line option
* General
  -  this is not complete and may need further patches
** Next week, two members of the team will be at Europython
- Added QAxContainer, more classes from 5.10
** Don't forget QtWS 2025 submissions (Until first days of August)
- Preparing to add Qt3D
** We might get the help from an intern.
- Removed flaky test
* Infra & Releases
- further research on how pip wheels might be used for Pyside
** LTS Open Source release is out for 6.2.9 (sources)
  - seems to work well on win & macOS
** QtDS packages are generated now in the CI
  - problems on Linux related to libICU (or in general due to different system libraries)
** Improvements in https://download.qt.io/official_releases/QtForPython/
- implemented and tested --standalone feature for the main Qt platforms [https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-558 PYSIDE-558]
* Bugs & Features
- open question remains how 3rdparty Pyside deployment path might look like
** Fixed PYSIDE-2790: Implemented task "uncancelling" and cancel count mechanism
- [https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-510 PYSIDE-510]
** 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


==== 9. November 2017 ====
===27. June 2024===
- Work on simplifying the build system, made it possible to specify a module subset to build
- [https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-558 PYSIDE-558] Fixing rpaths and making --standalone work on the 3 platforms. Result: Self-contained binary wheels. Needs Review.
- Trying to setup the project for building the docs. I managed to build the rsts from the patch in gerrit but running sphinx on those rsts results in errors about python 2 style code.
- [https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-510 PYSIDE-510] work continued


==== 2. November 2017 ====
* General
- Releasing:
** Python language summit blog posts.
  - continued work on macOS installer
* Infra & Releases
  - binaries must be patched during the install from repo (rpath setting)
** Android wheels configuration is running OK.
  - adopting the scripts from Qt for Pyside
** Feature freeze for 6.8 on September 11 (for Qt/C++ RC release)
  - made pip install work on Mac -> would be alternative to online installer approach
** Tweaks for the Qt for Python deployment internal guide for Raspberry Pi.
    - two deployment choices available
* Bugs & Features
- discussions on how void* pointer should be handled, two options on the table
** QtDS: packages ready to go out after CI configuration.
  - add additional Pyside module handling such pointers
** QtDS: export option within the tool planned in 2 weeks.
  - add feature to shiboken to transparently add the support to any arbitrary C++/pyside project using shiboken
** qmlnext: the issue with the example task was find and solved.
- documentation snapshot generated
** PYSIDE-2786 Preparation (future statement) of new syntax for Python 3.9
- simplified setup-pyside and related build script options
*** 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.


==== 26. October 2017 ====
===20. June 2024===
- Releasing:
  - test repo for online installer created (mac seems to deploy)
  - first evaluation of suggested installer approach on various platforms
- Documentation:
  - Qt doc team joined the effort
  - first experiences are collected
  - should new documentation be done in rst rather than qdoc format?
  - Getting started, General platform requirements and general fixes turning up during generation
- [https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-571 PYSIDE-571] received further fixes and reviews
- REDHAT not working on Coin (caused by gcc header issues)
- other minor improvements


==== 19. October 2017 ====
* General
- Discuss open Pyside 2 release & documentation
** Interviews going on for a new position and internship.
- Release packaging suggestion
* Infra & Releases
  - Qt for Python installed via Qt installer and python scripts pointed to module via PYTHON_PATH
** 6.7.2 was released last Tuesday
  - create test online repository for Qt installer
** QtDS package is currently awaiting approval from the team.
  - follow up how this Pyside installation approach might impact deployment of Python apps using Qt for Python
* Bugs & Features
  - Linux distros shipping Pyside? (not sure yet either)
** Android wheels patch integrating. Windows signing issue hopefully fixed.
- coin
** 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.
  - breakage in CI provisioning due to competing Python binaries coming from MSVC 2017
** PYSIDE-2702 - Flatpak progressing. Discussion with QtCreator led to the impression that an Flatpak extension would be better than Flatpak Baseapp.
  - coin template needs updating
*** This enable PySide6 to be bundled with the QtCreator flatpak app
- [https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-571 PYSIDE-571] work progressing (ready for review)
** Follow-up patches from the internal QtAsyncio presentation.
- lots of fixes in Pyside dev branch and
** There are two functions in asyncio that are not properly documented.
- feedback from Qt World Summit:
** Type hints:
  - is Pyside on Android and iOS?
*** 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'
  - iOS probably out since platform cannot have interpreted code
** PYSIDE-2701 - Binary reduction approach ideas
  - Scriptable application use case was a sought after feature
** QtDS exporting python files will be started soon.
  - qdoc got WebXML patch -> open question which version to use for doc generation across the various pyside versions
** Improved QML integration being studied.
    - add script to support single command to generate documentation


==== 12. October 2017 ====
- no update due to Qt World Summit 2017


==== 05. October 2017 ====
===13. June 2024===
- Qt DataVisualization port has finished including an example
- Coin no progress due to pending Qt 5.9.2 release
- webxml support being implemented inside qdoc (beginning of the pyside documentation toolchain)


==== 28. September 2017 ====
* General
- 5.6 and 5.9 branches are *finally* enforced by CI - yeeeaaahh
** 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.
- Dev branch is still missing some forward merges before it can be enabled.
*** 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.
- port of QtDataVisualization progressing
*** Python stubs (pyi) might be compatible with 3.10+
- fixed bugs: [https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-510 PYSIDE-510], [https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-517 PYSIDE-517], [https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-562 PYSIDE-562], [https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-564 PYSIDE-564]
** Qt Group is sponsoring EuroPython 2024: and we will give a talk!
- [https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-156 PYSIDE-156] in progress, first example of qApp protection, benchmark of impact ongoing
* 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.
** [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


==== 21. September 2017 ====
===06. June 2024===


- Prototyping and exploring of Pyside packaging options
* General
- [https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-510 PYSIDE-510] done and merged
** Maintenance work next week will keep the CI offline (Monday morning, phase I + Wednesday, phase II)
- [https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-156 PYSIDE-156] being addressed thanks to [https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-510 PYSIDE-510]
** PySide 6.8 will support Python 3.10+
- [https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-487 PYSIDE-487] Qt Data Visualization port progressing
** 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


==== 14. September 2017 ====
===30. May 2024===
- Coin
  - 5.6 testing is back online (5.9 target unblocking pending a merge)
  - Packaging of Pyside started to become a discussion topic
    - Standard PIP deployment
    - Separate delivery via the usual Qt account channel
- void* support has a pending patch (https://codereview.qt-project.org/#/c/205124/ and related example https://codereview.qt-project.org/#/c/205272/)
- Documentation work ongoing
  - WebXML support was added to qdoc - see [https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-363 PYSIDE-363]
  - inputting the resulting WebXML to shiboken gave promising results
  - Qt Creator gain ability to fold away Python license headers
- Signature patch (https://codereview.qt-project.org/#/c/198654/)


==== 7. September 2017 ====
* General
- Pyside CI broken (timeout for tests is zero)
** PySide 6.8 will most probably support Python 3.10+
  - Pyside provisioning scripts are very fragile
** Evaluating arm64 wheels for Windows
  - Qt's own  provisioning is interfering when e.g. Pyside relevant tools get changed by Qt
* Infra & Releases
  - new ideas and redesign is likely to be needed
** Discussion about the Qt for Python in boot2qt
- New Bindings: QRegularExpression, QVersionNumber, QUuid,
** PyPy releases has been on hold due to some internal CI problems.
- Discussions around Documentation for pyside
** Commercial packages will now be available on the following day after community packages.
  - couple of options for generation pipeline
** qtpip is planned to support aarch64
    1.) qdoc generates WebXML -> Shiboken converts WebXML to ReST (used to work in Qt 4 days)
** 6.5.6 commercial lts will be released next week
    2.) qdoc is lib which creates AST - > shiboken uses the AST to generate ReST
* Bugs & Features
    3.) \pyside to document python classes (lots of documentation effort and not ReST integratable)
** [https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-2766 PYSIDE-2766] - Android wheels from macOS successful. Patches for review.
    4.) minimalistic approach is to merely link to the Qt object class reference (python specific docs are somewhat separate
*** Testing a sample app now + Modifying https://codereview.qt-project.org/c/pyside/pyside-setup/+/537466
- [https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-516 PYSIDE-516] further investigation how to deal with void* APIs
** 6.8 adaption is in progress [qtcharts is a bit unstable]
  -> prototyping ongoing
** c++20 research to improve libshiboken
- [https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-510 PYSIDE-510] redesigned once again (no more internal Python dependencies, Python version independent implementation)
** qtscrypt progressing to support signal/slot
 
** dev will support python 3.10+ [for 6.8+]
==== 31. August 2017 ====
** PYSIDE-2767 pyi improvements.
- 5.9 passes on all platforms but one (10.10 still failing)
** lazy init for nested types disrupted the smart pointer support.
  -> fix for provisioning scripts pending
** https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-2440 type hints optionallity is planned to be implemented.
- 5.6 no problems at hand (all passing)
- [https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-516 PYSIDE-516] hit a dead end
  -> fundamental way of passing vertex data (void*) pointer between Python and C++ not addressed yet
- [https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-510 PYSIDE-510] complete


==== 24. August 2017 ====
===23. May 2024===
- Coin 5.9 provisioning is in place, but there are some issues with paths to tools which are being addressed
* General
- Build issue on Windows 10 5.9 branch, addressed by patch in review https://codereview.qt-project.org/#/c/203406/
* Infra & Releases
- Fix to macOS build when old Qt 4.8 is present, addressed by patch https://codereview.qt-project.org/#/c/203313/
** Preparing 6.7.1 with a lot of fixes
- [https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-516 PYSIDE-516] progress on bringing in more of the QOpenGL classes
** 5.15.17 LTS released
- [https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-560 PYSIDE-560] stable ABI was investigated, decision is required
* Bugs & Features
- [https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-510 PYSIDE-510] finalizing license modifications
** [https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-2747 PYSIDE-2747] Fixed PySide to run on Fedora 40 with 3.12-3
- [https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-156 PYSIDE-156] ongoing implementation for fixing qApp crashes
** [https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-2749 PYSIDE-2749] Worked on a performance regression related to Lazy Init
- [https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-552 PYSIDE-552] in process of being merged
** [https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-2758 PYSIDE-2758] Added QQuickWebEngineProfile.setUrlRequestInterceptor()
- [https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-562 PYSIDE-562] pending patch
** [https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-2762 PYSIDE-2762] Fixed a type hinting bug
- [https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-563 PYSIDE-563] in process of being merged
** Brushed up and fixed a few examples
- PySide 2 presentation being prepared for Qt World Summit 2017
** 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


==== 17. August 2017 ====
===16. May 2024===
- Almost everyone is still on holiday - not much progress
* General
- PySide 5.9 branch CI changes are still pending integration / ongoing due to issues with the CI infrastructure switch
* Infra & Releases
- Investigation ongoing regarding QSSL classes on 5.9 branch
** 5.15.17 commercial lts needs to be re-packaged one more time due to 3rd party components updates.
- PYSIDE-510 - ongoing work to make separation of different licensed code
** 6.7.1 release will also be re-packed. LE for release is 20th of May
- PYSIDE-156 - initial work to stop crashes when using methods that require an allocated QApplication instance
* Bugs & Features
- PYSIDE-558 - initial investigation on how to proceed
** [https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-2753 PYSIDE-2753] - Added missing libQt6DeclarativeOpcUa binary to wheels
- Updated the PySide2 wiki documentation to clear up build steps and requirements.
** [https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-2750 PYSIDE-2750] - Added missing libQt6VirtualKeyboardSettings binary to wheels
** Exclude .qsb, .webp, .cpp.o and .qen from deployment due to Nuitka error. Error report raised in Nuitka - https://github.com/Nuitka/Nuitka/issues/2854
** Working on macOS cross compilation. The clang parser of shiboken generator needs some changes for cross compilation. Tricky changes incoming.
** [https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-2748 PYSIDE-2748] - Fixed a type hint error
** [https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-2747 PYSIDE-2747] - Diagnostics and minor fixes for a crash on Fedora, no real fix though
** [https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-2711 PYSIDE-2711] - Fixed a bug in QWidget/QObject.parent()
** Work on type discovery in libshiboken, added helpers to dump internal state, performance considerations
** [https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-2620 PYSIDE-2620] - Adapting to 6.8
** [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.


==== 10. August 2017 ====
===2. May 2024===
- holiday time is hampering project at the moment -  not much progress
- CI changesin Qt affected Pyside project such that focus was on different CI matters
- [https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-557 PYSIDE-557] being addressed
- some very minor issues were fixed


==== 03. August 2017 ====
* General
- PYSIDE-510 under code review https://codereview.qt-project.org/198654
** OKR reviews for the next quarter.
  -> license issues have to be addressed
** Got a long document with feedback of a few tools we provided, that will help us improving our tooling!
  -> some testing aspects still open (delayed till later on)
** Started the planning of moving away from '<file>.pyproject' to 'pyproject.toml' for pyside projects, in order to add options for our tools.
  -> investigation of impact on deployment across multiple python run-time versions required
* Infra & Releases
- missing bindings script/wiki page updated: [[PySide2_Missing_Bindings|Missing PySide2 bindings]]
** 5.15.17 commercial lts needs to be re-packaged due to 3rd party components updates.
- first working array support has been delivered (some adjustments still required), now proceeding to extend for OpenGL [https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-516 PYSIDE-516]
** 6.7.1 to be released next week.
- Missing classes in works (e.g. QAbstractnativeEventFilter, QFileLock,....)
** Add new mechanism to test snapshot wheels.
  -> revealed some issues of handling void* pointers
* 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


==== 27. July 2017 ====
- Fix for [https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-331 PYSIDE-331] causes lots crashes in auto tests
  -> more investigation ongoing
- coin
  - since 5.6 is now enforced by Qt CI the focus shifted to the 5.9 branch of Pyside
  - still encountering build issues on 5.6 though
  - cmake upgrade for macOS 10.10
  - missing virtual env for macOS 10.12 being deployed
  - msvc 2013 being removed from CI targets
  - clang on OpenSuSE deployment ongoing
  - lots of effort went into debugging the above Coin issues
- numpy support for 2d array feature development progressing ([https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-354 PYSIDE-354])


==== 20. July 2017 ====
===25. April 2024===
- coin
* General
  - license test passing
** Successful talk at PyCon DE. Good response.
  - setup issues wit Python 3 and msvc 2008 vs 2015 issues
* Infra & Releases
  => need to install newer Python 3 binaries
** Preparing 6.7.1
  => otherwise looks like enforced testing can be set alive on 5.6 branch
** 5.15.17 Commercial LTS is also soon to be prepared
  - 5.9 still having clang header issues
** sccache seems to be not properly behaving (on windows) because we are not getting enough output.
- 2D array support work in progress
** PySide6_DS wheel to be adjusted and hopefully be released soon.
- [https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-331 PYSIDE-331] -> waiting for PYSIDE-510 dependency
* Bugs & Features
- [https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-510 PYSIDE-510]-> issues with Python 2.x left
** Added a number of new classes
- need to get a handling what functions are not supported by pyside due to exclusions or missing support in shiboken
** 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 [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


==== 13. July 2017 ====
===18. April 2024===
- coin
  - Production coin was updated today and all fixes are finally executed
  - 5.6
  - macOS 10.11 machines have Python 2.6, which causes test script to fail due its usage of a
          module added in 2.7. Investigation in progress on the best way to fix this.
  - build failure with Windows 8.1 (msvc2013-x86)
  - 5.9
  - macOS 10.12 missing virtual env (https://codereview.qt-project.org/200006)
  - Rest Linux/macOS configs are failing various build issues
  - dev is still pending for qt5 merge from 5.9 
- [https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-510 PYSIDE-510] development completed, test added, needs review
- [https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-331 PYSIDE-331] ongoing work
- [https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-550 PYSIDE-550] investigated, needs a working solution to allow proper building on distros that separate Qt private headers into separate packages
- [https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-354 PYSIDE-354] ongoing work on C / C++ array support in PySide, some questions remains on how to deal with xml syntax and multiple dimensions.


==== 29. June 2017 ====
* General
- coin
** Bug fixing week
  - Qt 5.6 all coin changes for Pyside are done but waiting for coin production update (after Qt 5.9.1 release)
** PyConDE (Mon-Wed next week)
  - Pyside/Qt 5.6 on new OpenNebula infrastructure confirmed to run
** Planning a workshop for TQtC solution engineers (internal)
  - Qt 5.9 based setup still misses clang libs (merge pending)
** Possibility to include shiboken into the Axivion infra
  - Pyside/Qt 5.9 test failure fixes on macOS
* Infra & Releases
- worked on array support (passing arrays between Pyside and Qt API) - work in progress ([https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-354 PYSIDE-354])
** 5.15.17 commercial LTS was postponed to Friday. Still need test on Windows.
- continued work on debug builds across the platforms
** 6.5.6 release planned
- embedded Python example under review (further testing across the platforms)
** 6.7.1 release has been postponed to the first week of May
- [https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-510 PYSIDE-510] finished (not yet merged) -> revealed a few more  problems in [https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-331 PYSIDE-331] & [https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-308 PYSIDE-308]
** DS-compatibility wheel postponed due to CI issues
- added a way to dynamically detect the available Qt modules in Pyside
** 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.


==== 22. June 2017 ====
===11. April 2024===
- building pyside on Win with debug and non-debug
* General
  - QSSL* classes do not build on macOS & Windows (patch in progress)
** Bug fixing week.
- dll name handling work finished (build system issues were addressed)
** Qt 6.6.3 Library split broke our release, so we provided 6.6.3.1 as a fix.
- PYSIDE-531 discussions
** Qt 6.7.0 also had an issue with a binary incompatibility change on QtAudio and QAudio
- coin
** Maybe we implement a simple channel of communicating this details, in order to avoid breakage [maybe architect meetings]
  - followup from 18 May (windows issues in coin)
** Qt Creator 13 creates venvs automatically. This needs to be revisited to avoid multiple environments to be created.
  - test runner changes being merged should address this
** New epics with brainstorming ideas.
  - new regression on macOS targets though
* Infra & Releases
  - 5.9 issues due to clang continue to exist (will be addressed after 5.6 is enforced)
** 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.


==== 15. June 2017 ====
===4. April 2024===
- dll name handling fixed across the platforms (e.g. pkgconfig handling)
* General
- PYSIDE-500 fixed
** Large part of the team at conferences/on Easter holiday
- PYSIDE-331 is still not done (in parts a module by module fix is required)
* Infra & Releases
- PYSIDE-510 ongoing
** Released 6.6.3.1 release with fixes for Quick Controls/Multimedia
- no further progress on coin
** Preparing for 6.7.0
- Getting started guide has been updated dealing with Qt 5.6 and Qt 5.9 based Pyside builds
* Bugs & Features
- scriptable Pyside example been developed to demonstrate SDK-like usage of Pyside
** [https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-2646 PYSIDE-2646] Improved cleanup of signal manager objects
- lots of small infrastructure changes/fixes
** [https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-2662 PYSIDE-2662] Fix for a signal in OpcUA
** [https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-2663 PYSIDE-2663] Fixed a crash in webengine bindings
** [https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-2668 PYSIDE-2668] Fixed an error in enums


==== 8. June 2017 ====
===28. March 2024===
- Proposed solution for PYSIDE-500
* General
- Further work on example for PYSIDE-526, work on shiboken2 command line handling to ease usage with qmake
* Infra & Releases
- Updated Getting started Wiki
** Prepared 6.6.3.1 release; 6.6.3 was unfortunately broken due to missing libraries (Quick Controls/Multimedia)
- Introspection work continued (PYSIDE-510)
* Bugs & Features
** [https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-2654 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.
** [https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-2652 PYSIDE-2652] Fixed an int overflow
** [https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-2649 PYSIDE-2649] Work on building without OpenGL
** [https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-2653 PYSIDE-2653] Fixed a syntax error in type hints


==== 1. June 2017 ====
===21. March 2024===
- PYSIDE-500
* General
- https://wiki.qt.io/PySide2_GettingStarted needs a serious cleanup
** Ideas to improve the module.
  - 5.6 vs 5.9 differences not explained
** Most of the team is going on vacation the following weeks.
  - specify exact version matching conditions
* Infra & Releases
- pyside repo merge completed
** 6.7.0 to be released the first week of April [delayed]
  - Coin changes required to catchup - > recent CI issues have caused delay
** 6.2.12 Commercial LTS to be release in the following days [delayed]
- Introspection work continued (PYSIDE-510) -> not yet complete
** 6.6.3 to be release next week [delayed]
- qtcharts and related examples have been ported (5.9 only)
* Bugs & Features
- license header checks of Pyside for Coin able to distinguish branches
** 6.8 adaption patches are being worked
- Array support for Pyside missing (numpy_array support?)
** 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.


==== 18. May 2017 ====
===14. March 2024===
- Coin
* General
  - Win nodes didn't run the cleanup functions -> test failures due to artifacts -> no solution yet
** PyConDE schedule is out, don't miss Shyam's talk https://pretalx.com/pyconde-pydata-2024/talk/W7YDRX/
  - Clang issues persist and this must be addressed in the broader scope of Qt/qdoc depending on libclang too
** Python 3.13.0a5 is out.
    -> until this point in time the setup is a manual one for pyside/5.9+
* Infra & Releases
- merge of psyide repositories -> no objections against the plan in the community
** 6.7.0 in preparation, docs adjustments and new pages will come. Branching on Monday.
  -> merge will happen in the next few days (pyside.git, pyside-setup.git and shiboken.git become one repo)
** 6.2.12 LTS release in preparation.
  -> examples, wiki and tools will remain as they are
** 6.6.3 will be release next week.
- QOpenGL* porting continuing
** qtpip 0.1.1 to be released
- qttext2speech ported to Pyside2
** dev is already Python 3.8 free, and we support 3.9+ for 6.7+
- failing QML tests in Qt 5.9 based Pyside
* Bugs & Features
- PYSIDE-510 - introspection solution in the works
** Triaging and fixing issues in general: 2638 layout crash.
- Qt World Summit Berlin 2017 (talk for Pyside being handed in)
** 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


==== 12. May 2017 ====
===07. March 2024===
- looked into the Windows tests failures, and the reason might be related to how we copy around build artifacts, leading to an incorrect folder structure. Coin team to look at it.
* General
- Fixed a small regression in 5.9 with building on macOS after some cmake changes that happened in 5.6
** Participation in FOSS Backstage
- Implemented, tested, reviewed and committed the multimedia widgets examples
* Infra & Releases
- documentation from Pyside1 days can not be generated anymore
** 6.5.5 Commercial LTS was released
  -> new approach required using exiting Qt5 doc tools
** 5.15.13 OSS Package will be released tomorrow
- QOpenGL* port to Pyside has started -> missing support for arrays in shiboken
** qtpip 0.1.1 release delayed
  - more thorough design discussion needed
** Python 3.8 deprecation is still pending due to CI configuration dependencies.
- Coin
* Bugs & Features
  - provisioning for clang in Qt CI ongoing: https://codereview.qt-project.org/#/c/192517/10
** 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.


==== 04. May 2017 ====
===29. February 2024===
- Coin
  - libclang 4.0 provisioning available (code reviews ongoing -> enabler for Pyside and qdoc testing)
  - 5.6 coin issues resolved
  - macOS related CI/cmake failures were resolved
  - some CI sync issues among pyside submodules (always submodules HEAD is tested)
  => may have to change once we come closer to the final release ->
  => fine as long as we are in heavy development mode
  - discussion around Ubuntu and OpenSuse configurations
  - minimal cmake requirements not met on all distros
    - 5.6 only be build using RedHat 6.6
    - 5.9 builds have updated Linux distros -> may be able to obtain a new cmake version without hacking the standard toolchain
- QtMultimedia and QRaster* API bindings further completed
- added tests and examples for the above bindings/APIs
- PYSIDE-510 (required for simplified and more generic testing of bindings)
- PYSIDE-504 work is ongoing
- PYSIDE-507 -> avoid hardcoded includes when certain Qt modules are not available
- brief discussion whether to merge the shiboken and pyside repo
  -> advantages from a CI perspective and reduces pyside setup complexity


==== 26. April 2017 ====
* General
- Coin
** Leap day!
  - provision for 5.9+ branches -> we would like to use libclang 4.0
** Documentation changes
  - test still not yet executed due to branch mismatch which pulls in dev branches
* Infra & Releases
- missing bindings in QtCore/QtGui/QtMultimedia - work in progress
** 6.7.0 will drop support of Python 3.8
- clang support done (except for a Mac issue)
** 6.5.5 to be released in the following days
  - Pyside clang version required Qt 5.7 or later
** 6.7.0 RC marks our feature freeze, some exceptions will be discussed in order to release on time.
- [https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-500 PYSIDE-500] done
** qtpip 0.1.1 to be released soon for new indexing and shiboken_wizard package
- work on PYSIDE-500, 502, 504, 497 will continue
** General update of Python versions in our CI configuration is being planned (for dev-6.7)
- qdoc work started trying to recover whatever documentation is left from Pyside 1.x
* 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


==== 20. April 2017 ====
===22. February 2024===
- Fix for [https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-331 PYSIDE-331] broke the Windows build; under investigation
* General
- Refactoring, fixed build warnings
** Brainstorming discussion about new JIRA items.
- Looked at debug builds on Windows
* 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.


==== 13. April 2017 ====
===15. February 2024===
- discussion around merge policies between 5.9 and 5.6 branch
- Linux debug library issues fixed
- PYSIDE-488 fixed via workaround
- fixed a unit tests
- worked on qdoc/html generation in Pyside (failed so far - waiting for qdoc maintainer feedback)
- PYSIDE-331 patches merged -> more bugs found in the meantime


==== 6. April 2017 ====
* General
- 5.6 branch created
** Brainstorming session was held.
- 5.9 branch to be created as well (easier setup for Qt 5.9 testing in Coin)
** Europython Call for Proposal is open!
- Coin
* Infra & Releases
  - not passing build platforms have been disabled
** 6.6.2 release waiting for Qt/C++ packages to be done.
  - otherwise COIN passing on 5.6 (except for 2 failing test) -> soon to be enforced
** Commercial 6.5.5 LTS to be out next week.
  - license checker passing in dev
** Some improvements to the CI and macOS behavior
- clang changes merged to dev branch (after reviews)
** Cherry pick bot on commercial repositories.
  - clang provisioning on Coin still missing
* Bugs & Features
- for now shiboken is not a generic C++ bindings generator (targeting Qt use cases only)
** singleShot changes are merged, keep an eye on strange behavior.
- TODO: enabling the generation of documentation from repos
** 6.7 adaption: metaobjectdump improvements
- fixed mixed usage of debug and release build (no debug builds for windows)
** 6.6.2 fixes with the commercial shibokenwizard
- [PYSIDE-331] work continuing - fixed, tests are missing
** 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.


==== 30. March 2017 ====
- Coin
  - some platforms passing and will be enabled by default
  - MinGW, some OSX and cross compile targets remain out
- will branch pyside dev branches to 5.6, new dev becomes clang branch
  - regular merges from 5.6 -> dev will start happening
  - Pyside 5.6 branch will continue to work against Qt 5.6
- need reviews for [https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-323 PYSIDE-323] to merge clang changes
  - Qt 5.10, 5.9 (on main desktop plawtforms working)
  - for now the Pyside dev development will be based on Qt 5.9 (to be bumped up later on)
- [PYSIDE-331] - in progress
- [PYSIDE-156] -


==== 23. March 2017 ====
===8. February 2024===
- Coin
  - progressing
- More tests fixed
- wip/clang branch created, will receive Clang parser port with instructions
- Refactoring of shiboken, replaced QtXml classes by QXmlStreamReader allowing for stricter error checking


==== 16. March 2017 ====
* General
- Coin
** We got a PyConDE 2024 talk accepted (python -> android deployment)!
  - the fixes are still integrating or are under review (no further progress until this is done)
* Infra & Releases
- clang parser replacement [https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-323 PYSIDE-323]
** Addressing some issues with the android wheels
  - most test failures related to clang are fixed
** 6.6.2 got delayed until next week
  - tests ran pretty much through on Qt 5.9 (Windows and Linux - Mac not yet verified)
** Preparing for the 6.7 switch on dev
  - code cleanups in shiboken
* Bugs & Features
  - will create feature branch on all pyside repos to get the clang patch series under CI control
** macOS: permission api patches ready for review
  - merges from regular pyside branches into clang branch will commence
** singleShot patches merged
  - readme required that explains how clang is to be built (if not provided by platform)
** Lazy initialization was finished, and ready for discussion.
- [PYSIDE-331] - in progress
** Check compatibility with the new REST module (from Qt/C++)
** Preparations for 6.7 continues.


==== 09. March 2017 ====
===1. February 2024===
- Coin
  - lots of changes in Gerrit for Pyside and coin
  - the outcome has to be check once everything merged
  - upcoming clang dependencies in shiboken introduces new requirements for Coin
  - clang changes to be dealt with after pyside branching
- clang
  - first complete bindings generation with Qt 5.6 and Qt 5.9
  - some failing unit tests which have to be looked at individually
  - actual merge depends on pyside branching which in turn depends on recent Coin changes
- smart pointer support
  - patches generally done, gerrit review ongoing
  - rather large patch
- created list of missing bindings in Pyside ([https://wiki.qt.io/PySide2_Missing_Bindings Missing Bindings])
  - mostly class level view, global functions at al not covered
- Jira cleanup
  - PYSIDE-464, PYSIDE-217, Pyside-224 fixed
  - most bugs reviewed now and valid ~100 bugs were identified


==== 02. March 2017 ====
* General
- Coin
** Interest from KDE to enable flatpak packages (maybe base pyside app).
  - Coin runs tests on Windows and OSX (some failures in the test - to be investigated)
** Discussion on adding more tutorials of specific functionality.
  - Windows provisioning somewhat blocked due to CI issues
** CI Maintenance Break next Monday (first Monday of each month)
  - no progress on Linux
* Infra & Releases
  - OSX 10.8 ran tests with expected results
** no unity build discussion and checks
  - OSX 10.9 has issues due to Pyside not supporting namespace builds of Qt
** 6.6.2 to be released next week.
- clang
** More granularity on the commercial wheels: shiboken wizard wheel.
  - preprocessor has remaining issue
* Bugs & Features
    -> with clang compiler but gcc seems OK
** 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.
    -> Qt Core wrapper close to compiling (QHash issues remaining)
** Android: using the master branch on python-for-android, and other changes related for macOS deployment.
- Smart pointer work continues
** PYSIDE-2597 optimization for the deployment procedure
  - some uses cases work, other use cases might remain
** Lazy initialization: works continues, and it's looking good. 13 bugs to go on lazy mode. The new implementation seems to be working better.
- [https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-364 PYSIDE-364] was fixed (patch pending)
** 6.7 adaptation still in progress (many changes from Qt)
- General error review on bugreports.qt.io
** General documentation adjustments
  - 50% done (prioritized bugs are handled/checked bugs - "done" bugs)
** Improvements on shiboken: better error messages
- ran address and leak sanitizer over Pyside which resulted in some worrying cases (need to be addressed going forward)
** 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


==== 22. February 2017 ====
- [https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-462 PYSIDE-462] Improved solution approved
- [https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-205 PYSIDE-205] Hard-to-detect memory leak plugged
  - slow memory leak found in shiboken with thousands of false positives
  - used differential analysis of valgrind output
- Clang: Fixed Preprocessor handling (set defines, include paths), got minimal binding tests to pass, now adapting MetaBuilder and PySide to what Clang finds when parsing Qt. Good news: Very little need to set Q_DOC or other magic defines
- Coin: Slow progress, currently struggling with provisioning
- extensive bug triaging ongoing in Pyside Jira project


==== 16. February 2017 ====
===25. January 2024===
- Coin (no update - other priorities in release/CI team)
- Clang (progressing on pre-processor work)
- PYSIDE-315 closed
- PYSIDE-462 more review needed
- Shared pointer API very slowly progressing (lots of different fixes needed)
- QMimeDataBase support added
- QUrlQuery support blocked on QDOC defines in Qt sources (shiboken sets the wrong define)
- chasing memory leaks (PSYIDE-205)
- extensive bug triaging ongoing in Pyside Jira project
  - confirming and testing the reported bugs (70 of 200 processed)
  - some smaller bugs were fixed in the process
- quite a few bugs were discovered this week while working on the above items, e.g.:
  - deployment of pyside applications partly broken due to hard-coded install paths in Qt libs
  - Qt events are swallowed when Pyside error/exception occurs


==== 9. February 2017 ====
* General
- Clang progressed
** Configuring additional embedded devices for RTA
  - pure C++ tests for API extractions are passing (C++ parsing based on clang)
** Focus on spending some time on embedded linux, in order to see usability, and compatibility with Boot2Qt images.
  - even works with cmake
** Conferences: submissions to PyCon SK, PyCon DE, PyCon LT, PyCon US
  - old C++ preprocessor still to be replaced
* Infra & Releases
  - working through old preprocessor and checking what magic it did and how clang might be able to replace it
** Decouple of the commercial wheels in order to have a finer granularity and simpler tree on the Qt Installer (Maintenance Tool)
- PYSIDE-315 & PYSIDE-462 fixes pending for review
** Qt for Python 6.6.2 is waiting for Qt to be released (by the end of the month)
- COIN
** The next 5.15.13 LTS open source release will include a new fix for a missing symbol (PyIndex_Check)
  - continue progress an getting more platforms to pass (unblocking one step at a time)
** New CI configuration without '--unity' for manual testing, to spot issues.
  - Windows (32bit) and mac are building, Win 64bit still not building
* Bugs & Features
  - OSX and Windows are stopping in the test runner phase
** VS Code will use .flake8 (formerly setup.cfg) file for configuration once merged
  - missing cmake update still on Linux (provisioning update required)
** 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.


==== 26 January 2017 ====
===18. January 2024===
- PYSIDE-315
  - principle fix merged but some minor improvements still pending
- Pyside-462
  - essentially a feature request as C++ default parameters are not yet supported by Pyside
  - discussion ongoing how to address the problem
- COIN
  - 10.11, 10.9 & 10.8 build passes
  - 10.10 still failing during build
  - Progress on Windows and running into new problems further down the path
  - Redhat failed to general brokenness of the platform in CI
  - Ubuntu no further progress
- clang parser work progressing
  - completeness of work is currently measured by passing unit tests
  - there is a long way to go
  - see [https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-323 PYSIDE-323] and associated patches for progress monitoring
- Fixed regression which prevented Pyside to compile with Qt 5.5.1
- shared pointer support
- no update on 2nd February 2017 (next week)


==== 19 January 2017 ====
* General
- PYSIDE-315
* Infra & Releases
  - a possible fix is pending, some minor performance improvements are still possible
** Commercial LTS 6.2.11 was released
  - caused by different signal/slot ordering in Qt4 and Qt 5
** Add missing tags OSS LTS 5.15.x
- COIN
** 6.6.2 scheduled by the end of the month
  - issues on 10.8 and 10.9 platforms should pass now
** Release documentation to be written to have tasks on JIRA
  - 10.11 & 10.10 still have issues
* Bugs & Features
  - Windows timeout problem fix in COIN (but no COIN update until 5.8.0 released)
** Python Scripting: looking into stable API, and cleanup
  - Linux builds are failing
** PYSIDE-2577 doxygen issue
    - Ubuntu 14.04 fails due to cmake issue
** PYSIDE-2570 closing some roadmap items
    - Redhat 6.6 & OpenSuse 13.01 deferred
** Polishing documentation to use more sphinx directives
  - current COIN freeze for 5.8.0 release affecting patching of COIN for Pyside
** Qt 6.7 adaption
  - next steps in priority -> run tests on 10.8/10.9 and get Linux running
** Addressing some flake8 issues in the build_script
- PYSIDE-79 regression fixed as well (some interaction between PYSIDE-315 & PYSIDE-79)
** macOS permission API work continues: limitation for interpreted script, only compatible when deployed. Working around nuitka.
- PYSIDE-462 to be looked at next
** singleShot: trying to solve a corner case when no sender is specified (for using the C++ function directly)
- clang parser work progressing
** 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


==== 12 January 2017 ====
===11. January 2024===
- PYSIDE-315
  - sorting of slots/signal connection changed on Qt side and Pyside side has not caught up
  - had similar connection issues on the QML side, need to investigate whether there is a connection
- PYSIDE-79
  - caused a regressions (not yet investigated)
- fixed OpenGL types not being recognized on MacOS (partly fixed)
- API's with shared/smart pointers in Qt don't work
  - has potential long term effects and investigation has started into the reasons
- Refactoring shiboken in preparation for clang
- COIN currently runs tests with namespaced Qt
  - short term fix to exclude namespaced Qt builds with Pyside (broken on MacOS 10.9)
  - other failures: missing libraries on MacOS (10.11), missing provisioning on Windows, cmake issues on 10.10
  - unknown state on Linux (current Redhat too old)
- Prioritization after status round:
  - PYSIDE-315 to be investigated based on recent signal/slot patches for QML
  - Smart pointer issues reduced in priority to provide space for PYSIDE-315 & PYSIDE-79 regression
- verify that COIN runs testrunner (not just building Pyside)
  -> not yet verified since we are still failing builds in COIN


==== 5 January 2017 ====
* General
- COIN update
** Hackathon at TQtC
  - COIN changes merged (no further patches pending)
** CI process presentation
  - need to run an integration test
* Infra & Releases
  - issues related to different build platforms still to be expected
** Commercial LTS 6.5.4 release starting (to be finished today)
- Continue with clang
** Commercial LTS 6.2.11 still pending release
  - backtracking a bit (reusing some node API's during parsing but otherwise use clang to populate the tree)
** 6.6.2 schedule by the end of the month.
- test blacklisting reviewed (some removed - mostly signal related ones, one new regression)
** CI still showing some issues after the maintenance break.
- regressions in QtQuick were worked around (caused by recent Qt Quick changes)
** Update of the Python versions are pending.
- issues with macos framework style includes in Qt
* Bugs & Features
- PYSIDE-315 debugging ongoing, very hard to track down
** Fixing a few small issues with QtAsyncio
  - was it a regression from a previous Pyside release (e.g. Qt 5.4?!?
** Documentation for the QtAsyncio is currently in review.
- hard-copied Qt 5.4 based headers still in existence
** New behavior for singleShot (relying on the C++ impl)
  - updated needed but would shut Qt 5.4 users out
** macOS request permission API work continues.
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** 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


== 2016 ==
===04.January 2024===
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* 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.


==== 22 December 2016 ====
==2023==
- lots of discussions around the COIN patches
  - source archive setup being under review
  - Qt 5.6 provisioning patches merged
  - CI uses Python 2.7 at this stage
- clang C++ parsing continues
- fix of some Pyside unit tests (now have a clean slate again)
- finished QtQuick port
- some overflow problems have been fixed in shiboken


==== 15 December 2016 ====
*[[Qt for Python Development Notes 2023]]
- COIN changes pending for testing infrastructure
  -> https://codereview.qt-project.org/177136 (Pyside change)
  -> https://codereview.qt-project.org/176968 (Coin change)
  -> https://codereview.qt-project.org/179662 (Provisioning changes)
  -> https://codereview.qt-project.org/179663 (Provisioning changes)
- waiting for COIN development team to review/accept the pending changes
- no update in PYSIDE-315 (under investigation)
- Flushed out a couple of shiboken, QML, qml example bugs
- Some bugs related to parser delayed until clang parser task done (https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-322)
- most basic shiboken API extractor test to pass (global enumeration test)
- some trouble with int size data types
  -> Python 2 & 3 are different and the relevant C++ data types are yet again different from platform to platform


==== 8 December 2016 ====
==2022==
- COIN patches pending approval
  - Windows provisioning reviewed
  - Linux, Pyside, COIN itself
- Clang changes progressing, comparing AST tree from old parser and clang
- PYSIDE-79 done
- PYSIDE-315 under investigation
- QtQuick patches taking shape (some template magic and function pointer
  features in Qt cannot be parsed by shiboken)


==== 1 December 2016 ====
*[[Qt for Python Development Notes 2022]]
- COIN
- PYSIDE-79 there seems to be a final work around (https://codereview.qt-project.org/#/c/176374/)
  - fixing a few tests in the process
- clang update
  - dumping AST, identifying the required info
  - work in progress...
- problems with global static QObjects on the Qt side calling back into Python during app exit
  - may require some changes on the Qt side


==== 24 November 2016 ====
==2021==
- automatic COIN triggering for submodules work in progress
  - several discussions on this topic this week
- Clang investigation (what library to use)
- fixing bugs on Qt side for Pyside
- Qt QML support almost done, work will continue with Qt Quick
- PYSIDE-79 work story continues
  - reference counting not quite accurate but point of deallocation of ref count not identifiable


==== 17 November 2016 ====
*[[Qt for Python Development Notes 2021]]
- Pyside team suffering from sickness -> not much progress this week
- Pyside-79 fix had a lot of negative side effects (breaking existing tests)
  - internal object reference counting is the predominant issue at hand
  - continue to work on the bug (no resolution yet as delayed due to sickness)
- COIN some progress but still open discussions on branching policy required


==== 11 November 2016 ====
==2020==
- PYSIDE-79 being fixed
- PYSIDE-315 to be addressed
- Shiboken and Clang
  - familiarizing with clang and its parser's inner working
  - added experimental qmake project definition for shiboken (makes work in Qt Creator easier)
- Qt QML on Pyside work progressing
- work on COIN did not progress due to conflicting priorities inside COIN development


==== 3 November 2016 ====
*[[Qt for Python Development Notes 2020]]
- working through the QML stack esnuring all required API's are exported (https://codereview.qt-project.org/#/c/175682/)
- small build system patches
- PYSIDE-79 work progressing
- OpenGL support fixed (PYSIDE-314)
- COIN issues
  - repo interdepencies not working yet, suggestion under discussion and to be implemented
  - most license checks have been fixed
  - Qt 5.6 based Pyside to skip check
  - after branching for C++11 work the dev branch should work from license check perspective
  - eventually the entire CI needs to run through (more hidden problems could be hidden)
- Started working on C++11 compliant parser for shiboken
  - libclang will be used
  - first target is to replace the AST tree implementation
  - requires clang setup in the CI


==== 27 October 2016 ====
==2019==
- Work on WebKit/WebEngine support
- Further work on [https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-431 COIN] support
- Planning meeting
- Workshop for C++11 support in Pyside ([https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-323 PYSIDE-323])


==== 20 October 2016 ====
*[[Qt for Python Development Notes 2019]]
- [https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-355 Qt Quick support] submitted
- [https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-314 QtOpenGL support] submitted
- Further work on [https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-431 COIN] support, license headers
==== 13 October 2016 ====
- Qt CI update
  - Coin changes have merged but integration not yet working
  - Qt CI enables on Pyside side merged
  => COIN integration fails with license issues
  => requires review of license conditions for all files, some files are not even relicensable
  => skipping license check for now, most likely to be done later again but requires changes to license check script
  - more issues of interworking between QtCI and Pyside expected (won't be visible until license problems resolved)
  Open issue: does a change in Pyside repo trigger a rebuild of everything?
- Qt QML support progressing and first patches merged
  - serious bugs have been fixed, more complex QML examples are now working


==== 29 September 2016 ====
==2018==
- Coin integration close but not merged
- Bugfixing in particular on the shiboken parser side
- QML/Python binding and tests fixed -> general check all day-to-day aspects of QML are working
- QML examples porting
  -> still some failing tests
  -> Check all QML/Quick class are exported


==== 22 September 2016 ====
*[[Qt for Python Development Notes 2018]]
- Refactored Shiboken, udnerstanding build sequences
- black list for unit tests defined and tested
- fixing of tests
- QML example fixing continued (QML bindings not working)
- Pyside side for COIN done (pending integration checks)
- COIN integration still wip due to long test and retest cycles
- pyside and shiboken repo to be relicensed similar to other Qt products
=> this should address any issues regarding the status of generated code too
==== 16 September 2016 ====
- Pyside side for CI testing ready for testing
- status of COIN side to be determined. Code exists need help from CI team to confirm status.
- build system infrastructure improvements in pyside setup
- Qt logging now working
- and more
- Update on bug handling
  - PYSIDE-88 continuing
  - PYSIDE-349 (Multimedia ported)
  - PYSIDE-344 fix pending on codereview
  - make debug builds of Pyside work (OSX works, Linux has work in progress patch, Windows side awaiting contribution)
- QML support work in progress
  - examples are slowly ported with aim to identify bugs
 
==== 25 August 2016 ====
- Properly implementing QML experience in Pyside
- Unit test fixing
- automated CI testing for Pyside
  - working locally but still failures occurring on various other test machines
 
==== 4 August 2016 ====
- Additional Pyside examples under review
- Fixed warnings coming from Shiboken
 
==== 21 July 2016 ====
 
- main Pyside 2 example port done
- additional examples to fill gaps are being ported (as per prio list)
- CI patches running, but still gaps (should be done by next week)
- about 86% of auto test working (failing count of test 80+ auto test)
- [[pyside-Teststatus|Project Test Status]]
 
==== 14 July 2016 ====
 
- Pyside 2 examples ported
- OpenGL & SVG not working
- QtQuick 2 is in strange situation (QtQml depends on QtQuick)
- Python 3 realed Unicode handling not working with Qt
- QMessageBox hangs
- no documentation for any example
- lots of warnings when building wrapper
- results: https://paste.kde.org/pgje2toyh/mlbqic
- COIN setup for pyside https://codereview.qt-project.org/#/c/158336/
- Qt 5.7 still blocked due to missing C++11 support in shiboken
  - food for ideas: https://steveire.wordpress.com/
 
 
==== 7 July 2016 ====
 
- automated CI testing
- patches for Pyside and Qt CI side required
- Testing somewhat more complicated due to closed nature of Qt CI
- script to port examples to Qt 5 -> https://bugreports.qt.io/issues/?jql=labels%20%3D%20exampleport5
- all examples to remain BSD licensed
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=== Backlog ===
 
The list below represents some short term targets and long term ideas for Pyside2 development. There is no guarantee that this will happen as written down. It is meant as a short reminder and idea collection for future development. In the long term this list is likely to move to https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE.
 
# First time with Pyside (Document how to get started on this wiki)
# Testing Infrastructure
## What has been done so far?
## Qt CI support ([https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-431 PYSIDE-431])
### make test
### cmake based build system (all repos)
### pip installable Pyside
#### CI has to setup virtual Python environment
#### Use pip to install/build Pyside (release bundling)
 
# Future changes to PySide
## Gaps (modules & API)
### Identify the extent of the gaps by porting existing examples from Qt4 to Qt5 (done)
### Plugin system (in what form or shape do we need it is uncertain - some failing tests exist already)
### Prepare a summary of gaps for other modules
## Fundamental Architecture changes
### Shiboken
#### Clang support ([https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-323 PYSIDE-323])
### QtQML support ([https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-355 PYSIDE-355])
## MyPy (type annotation - fully typed Python API)
## General Python features and their adoption in PySide (e.g. Async I/O)
## Creator and tooling
### Fix QtC debugger to understand Python/C++ mixed internals
## Documentation generation
## Deployment of apps
## Debugging support
 
# Must have tasks for first release
## Packaging (e.g. pip deployment? )
## Clarify Installer story
## Documentation
## Product placement decisions
### Licensing
### Naming
### etc
## Complete CI coverage

Latest revision as of 09:32, 31 October 2024


2024

31. October 2024

  • General
    • Bug Fixing week
  • Infra & Releases
    • 5.15 integration was solved (Python 2 related) - 5.15.18 commercial LTS will be soon available.
    • Closing a few CI related bugs.
    • Debian 11 ARM configuration replaced by ubuntu 24.04
    • Qt 6.8.1 by the end of next month
    • SBOM changes will land in our repositories at some point
  • Bugs & Features
    • Documentation improvements (nesting inner classes into some modules)
    • doc: Adding a ad-hoc hack with a fake headline in order to get good search results
    • QPyS: Adapting for shared pointer
    • Fixing the __all__ re-definition that we have in our PySide6/__init__.py
    • Windows Debug Builds are showing a few issues

24. October 2024

  • General
    • Planning to make QtPythonScripting out.
    • QMLNext planning continues.
  • Infra & Releases
    • 6.8.0.2 might go out soon considering the last issues that were discovered. Also to include the fix for the directory that made it incompatible with qtpip.
    • 5.15.18 Commercial LTS will be released by the end of the month
  • Bugs & Features
    • New maps demo is working.
    • Multimedia: Now we are using the plugins from the CI provisioning.
    • Reproducible builds for yocto.
    • 6.8.0 regression from the re-write of the signal&slot mechanism.
    • 'QPyS' (QtPythonScripting) work continues.
      • Ownership will not be an issue, because objects will live in C++.
      • smart pointers support are required for a QtC integration
      • From lua: they do have a way of use different pointers for the variables.
      • be careful with dynamic_cast
      • A sub-set of classes are exposed to lua only, so we might follow a similar approach.
      • Documentation is being updated
    • Updates to the new tutorials (PySide + other Python modules)
    • qtpip research on a staging option
    • VSCode extension: discussions on the PySide integration for the recently announced addon.
    • PYSIDE-2895 __all__ reproducible builds for Yocto
    • PYSIDE-2903 issues with '# type:' in the stubs
    • PYSIDE-2846 Adding documentation for the mypy support

17. October 2024

  • General
    • 6.8.0.1 is fully compatible with Python 3.13.0, but the meta info of the wheels was wrong.
    • New intern joined the company, and will be helping with QtDS + Qt for Python integration
  • Infra & Releases
    • PySide 6.5.7 (commercial LTS) and 6.8.0 (6.8.0.1) were released
    • 6.4.0 release was removed from PyPI (due to the existence of 6.4.0.1)
    • qtpip 0.1.4 was released
    • Maintenance break in our CI: a few security changes were applied and we have new restrictions regarding the installation of other repositories
    • New limits will be requested to PyPI
    • Symbolic links in the macOS wheels are being copied a couple of times and not preserved.
    • libclang in our provisioning increased size, so we need to double check the wheel size.
    • Multimedia plugins on Windows are being copied to the wheel, they might be copied from install directly.
  • Bugs & Features
    • Finished the mypy checks and adding tests, hopefully merged soon.
      • in-place asymmetry seems to be an issue with some signatures.
    • PYSIDE-2891 32bit builds where broken, even if they are not supported it was addressed
    • PYSIDE-2893 6.8.0 doc regression was fixed
    • PYSIDE-2804 Custom enumerations in Qt Designer (not possible)
    • Qt 6.9 adaption in progress
    • OpenStreetMap demo being ported
    • Qt Scripting polishing a bit further
    • PYSIDE-2835 closed issue wrt sql+nuitka that broke after a new nuitka release.
    • Continue work on the Finances tutorial
    • pyside6-deploy command line simplification in progress

10. October 2024

  • General
  • Infra & Releases
    • Preparing 6.8
    • Preparing 6.5.7
  • Bugs & Features
    • PYSIDE-2885 Fix build against read-only Qt
    • PYSIDE-2883 Fix incomplete/undocumented QtWebEngine API
    • Last minute fixes for 6.8, new QtWebEngine API
    • Continue work on PythonScripting (Scrypt)
    • PYSIDE-2850 More work on the Finance Manager Tutorial
    • pyside6-android-deploy fix for 6.8.0, and adding a new option to cross-compile tool to just download Android NDK and SDK.
    • Update pyside6-android-deploy documentaion.

3. October 2024

  • General
  • Infra & Releases
    • Preparing for 6.8
  • Bugs & Features
    • Various documentation fixes
    • Continue work on PythonScripting (Scrypt)
    • Porting further C++ demos
    • pyside6-deploy support for design studio
    • qtpip support for Android wheels
    • Update flatpak baseapp to 6.7.3

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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