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== 2018 ==


==== 09. August 2018 ====
==2024==
- Qt for Python webinar on Tuesday with lots of interest
  -> https://resources.qt.io/qt-on-demand-webinars/creating-user-interfaces-with-qt-for-python-on-demand-webinar
- Adding bindings to Qt3D & Qt DataVisualization libs
  -> porting related examples too
- QVariant handling with lists improved
- Further improvements for Qt Creator Python environment
  -> further details being prepared for a related blog post
  -> adding examples how to add optional bindings
- improved script that generates https://wiki.qt.io/Qt_for_Python_Missing_Bindings
  -> due to bug there are a lot less missing bindings than previously thought
- further documentation improvements
- doc build script updated (using clang 6.0)
- further experiments with snippet generation in documentation


==== 02. August 2018 ====
=== 31. October 2024 ===
- 5.11.1 released (docs being updated on server)
- coin 5.11 broken because version mismatch between Pyside & Qt
- documentation for PEP 384 under review
- Qt Creator Python scripting support is improving
- submodule for QtCreator was requested to upstream the changes
- added support for reproducible builds
  -> different builds caused different numbering for Qt types
- continued work in template specialization support
- looking into issue whereby Pyside generates bindings for Qt classes which have been disabled during the build by Qt (PYSIDE-762)
- progressing on QVariant bugs
- splitting Shiboken and Pyside from build system perspective (work in progress)


==== 26. July 2018 ====
* General
- 5.11.1 release
** Bug Fixing week
  - SHA will be current 5.11/HEAD
* Infra & Releases
  - 5.11.2 release tag created in Jira
** 5.15 integration was solved (Python 2 related) - 5.15.18 commercial LTS will be soon available.
- macOS 10.13 fixed in coin (build test only atm)
** Closing a few CI related bugs.
- documentation for PEP 384
** Debian 11 ARM configuration replaced by ubuntu 24.04
  -> code review during documentation revealed some bugs
** Qt 6.8.1 by the end of next month
- QTableWidget caused performance issues which was identified and fixed
** SBOM changes will land in our repositories at some point
- added C++ using stmt support to shiboken
* Bugs & Features
- further work on [https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-743 PYSIDE-743]
** Documentation improvements (nesting inner classes into some modules)
- addressing QVariant bugs
** doc: Adding a ad-hoc hack with a fake headline in order to get good search results
- preparing content for trade show visits and webinars
** QPyS: Adapting for shared pointer
- Research: Python based plugins for QtCreator
** Fixing the __all__ re-definition that we have in our PySide6/__init__.py
    -> bindings for QtCreator
** Windows Debug Builds are showing a few issues
    -> 3rdparty scripts which can interact with QtCreator
- effort into splitting wheels to Python, Shiboken module and Shiboken generator
- more snippet updates on Qt side to enable override on Python side


==== 19. July 2018 ====
=== 24. October 2024 ===
- considerations around 5.11.1 TP release
  -> branching .1 being required
  -> change logs need to be done
  -> nominate good SHA
- TP wheels finally published on pypi.org
  -> http://blog.qt.io/blog/2018/07/17/qt-python-available-pypi/
- MacOS 10.13 being looked at by CI team as new target
- shiboken refactoring
- ([https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-743 PYSIDE-743])
- typing hints for IDE support
- limited API documentation for PEP 384 in works
- considerations for 5.12 release (not confirmed/agreed upon yet)
  - bugs bugs bugs
  - template support
  - splitting shiboken and Pyside more clearly
    -> simplifying bindings generation for 3rdparty libs
    -> even split individual Qt modules into individuals libs
  - embedding python bindings into C++ applications
  - various QVariant issues (e.g. PYSIDE-82, PYSIDE-207, PYSIDE-664, PYSIDE-710)
  - some additional moc features like: PYSIDE-634, PYSIDE-748
  - improving module/sub system support for QML, Qt3D or QtCharts
  - mobile support (large task not happening soon)
  - custom bindings for C++ libraries
  - better numpy integration


==== 12. July 2018 ====
* 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


  - Work on shiboken's type system ([https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-672 PYSIDE-672]) merged
=== 17. October 2024 ===
  - Started checking the XML elements/attributes of the typesystem language to identify unused elements ([https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-743 PYSIDE-743])
* General
  - Started looking at emerging new API of Qt 5.12, which unveiled bugs in shiboken
** 6.8.0.1 is fully compatible with Python 3.13.0, but the meta info of the wheels was wrong.
  - Finished the port of new examples related to [https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-738 PYSIDE-738]
** New intern joined the company, and will be helping with QtDS + Qt for Python integration
  - Fix a Python 3.7 hang/crash ([https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-737 PYSIDE-737])
* Infra & Releases
  - Fix a Python 3.7 compatibility issue ([https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-741 PYSIDE-741])
** PySide 6.5.7 (commercial LTS) and 6.8.0 (6.8.0.1) were released
  - Work on hinting stubs for Python IDEs ([https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-735 PYSIDE-735])
** 6.4.0 release was removed from PyPI (due to the existence of 6.4.0.1)
  - Will return to documenting PEP 384 at the weekend, promised.
** 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


==== 5. July 2018 ====
=== 10. October 2024===
* General
* Infra & Releases
** Preparing 6.8
** Preparing 6.5.7
* Bugs & Features
**  [https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-2885 PYSIDE-2885] Fix build against  read-only Qt
**  [https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-2883 PYSIDE-2883] Fix incomplete/undocumented QtWebEngine API
** Last minute fixes for 6.8, new QtWebEngine API
** 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.


  - Work on shiboken's type system ([https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-672 PYSIDE-672])
=== 3. October 2024===
  - Fixed COIN for macOS/dev branch ([https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-734 PYSIDE-734] / [https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-724 PYSIDE-724])
* General
  - helped with a very old bug ([https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-60 PYSIDE-60])
* Infra & Releases
  - started type hinting support ([https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-735 PYSIDE-735])
** Preparing for 6.8
  - Investigating the slowness of our bindings ([https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-727 PYSIDE-727])
* Bugs & Features
  - Working on expanding the examples related to QtCharts and fixing a few other examples.
** 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


==== 28. June 2018 ====
=== 26. September 2024===


  - Fixed some bugs for the 11.1 release (fix [https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-570 PYSIDE-570] , [https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-693 PYSIDE-693])
* General
  - code cleanup in shiboken
** Python Scripting: We might need to figure out ownership in order to embed into other C++ apps.
  - Added option for C++ language level to shiboken
** 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.
  - Doc fixes, start using conditional section the Qt documentation
** Intern starting on Oct 1st
  - Worked on PYSIDE-641 to handle the case of undefined len().
* Infra & Releases
  - Started work on method hinting. Discussion with the Wing IDE guys.
** Preparing 6.7.3 (waiting for qt release)
  - Fixed issue related to the QLibraryPath
** Commercial LTS 6.5.7 to be released soon (changelog pending to be merged)
  - Fixing a couple of examples.
** qtpip 0.1.3 to be released soon.
* Bugs & Features
** Updating and completing documentation
** [https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-2870 PYSIDE-2870] fixed (QStateMachine.postEvent causes a crash)
** Continue work on PythonScripting (Scrypt)
** pyside6-deploy changes for QtDS projects + corresponding changes in upcoming DS releases (needs work by DS team)- https://codereview.qt-project.org/c/pyside/pyside-setup/+/592554
** qtpip adaptation for newer pip versions + commercial wheel preference over lts wheels
** Finance Manager Tutorial - https://codereview.qt-project.org/c/pyside/pyside-setup/+/592131
** Type hints: Analysis for multi-signature problem (overloads). 600 errors -> 46 ! (from mypy)
*** override: inheritance issue with specific fields
*** overload/overlap: diff return types
*** some dunder methods might need special treatment.


==== 21. June 2018 ====
=== 19. September 2024===
- Publishing snapshot wheels was disabled for some time, but is now back online.
- The team has been mainly solving issues related to the first set of wheels from the Technical Preview.
  - Missing DLLs for the Windows wheels
  - Examples incompatibility due to previous changes, missing resources, etc.
  - Wrong paths associated to the QLibraryInfo class
- PEP 384: Tried to further reduce the patch size and to avoid Introduction of PepType.
    Stopped after it turned out to be impossible.
- Documentation:
  - There are many snippets that contains the C++ counterpart, so there is a lot of effort to translate them to Python
  - Continued on documenting the Limited API after it is now fixed.


==== 14. June 2018 ====
* General
- Official Tech Preview released yesterday: http://blog.qt.io/blog/2018/06/13/qt-python-5-11-released/
** Promoting the idea of writing Python plugins for Qt/C++ interfaces.
- focus has been on release details and following up on comments and feedback after the release
*** we most probably rely on libshiboken for having consistency in the PythonScripting module and PySide
- The team is grateful for all the suggestions and constructive feedback.
** 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


==== 07. June 2018 ====
=== 12. September 2024===
- Last steps for TP
* General
  - Latest changes merged (PEP related plus other features)
** Team back from Qt Contributor summit
  - ActivePython 3.6.0 broken
* Infra & Releases
  - PyPi wheel size issue: Still no answer from PyPi :(
** Preparing 6.7.3
  - Documentation check (code examples need to work)
** Preparing 6.2.13
  - Blog posts
** Starting to switch to 6.8
  - wheels upload? documentation url change? etc
* Bugs & Features
- Things to do
** Release Notes in documentation change read. Could be targeted for 6.8.
  - pyside2-tools update sha
** 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.
  - merge the last commits from 5.9 to 5.11 to dev
** [https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-2846 PYSIDE-2846] - towards MyPy testing of type hints
  - create release branch
*** Good progress in different error categories. Crucial was to make defaults hashable.
  - update version number
*** First removal of duplications was quite effective. More difficult removals are "same type, different variable name" etc.
  - create a tag once we know the final version.
*** Overlapping signatures need a deep analysis. From 601 errors down to 294.
** [https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-2859 PYSIDE-2859] Implemented QAbstractItemModel::multiData/QModelRoleDataSpan
** [https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-2861 PYSIDE-2861] Fixed pyside6-project with relative paths for lupdate
** Fixed some compiler warnings/clang-tidy


==== 31. May 2018 ====
=== 05. September 2024===
- ready for TP?
* General
  - 32bit win wheels not available yet
** Team mostly at QtCS
  - request to upload larger than usual pypi wheels filed with pypi/warehouse project
* Infra & Releases
  - some wheel renaming related patches still pending to comply with pypi requirements
** Starting to switch to 6.8
  - PEP changes have merged earlier this week
* Bugs & Features
  - example patches still under review
** Fixed a potential memory corruption in enum converter generation
  - documentation not packaged as part of release (published on doc.qt.io on day of release)
** [https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-2851 PYSIDE-2851] Tricky bug with @Slot(name=) no working. Still investigating.
  - ByteArray changes re-based on top of PEP patches -> to be merged until end of week
** Adapting deployment and other things to 6.8. Some existing bugs and ToDo were solved.
  - have release candidate wheels early next week for testing
** Working on creating a "Release Notes" page in Qfp documentation parsing from 'doc/changelogs'
  - aim to release it on 13th June 2018 (might shift till Monday (18th June) afterwards)
** Competitor research for potential new features
- assessed missing bindings situation


==== 24. May 2018 ====
=== 29. August 2024===
- discuss details of pypi uploads (accounts, processes and limits)
* General
  - need package size extension from pypi
** Continue discussion on a better qml integration
  - naming issues for packages
* Bugs & Features
  - download.qt.io will be backup distribution source
** Added pyside6-svgtoqml - 6.8
  - need to verify pypi working
** Added missing binaries to 6.8. This include some QtQuick modules.
- package finalization and testing (limits on changes?)
** Deprecated ToDo fixed in pyside6-deploy
  - entering code freeze mode very soon (limited commitment for time being)
** Updated Nuitka version to 2.4.8
  - pep changes
** Code Design simplification of pyside6-deploy
      -> 1 test failure, 1 build failure
** [https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-2835 PYSIDE-2835] - error message setup in pyside6-deploy. Issue raised in Nuitka.
      -> attribution and doc improvements still to be done
** [https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-2846 PYSIDE-2846] - towards MyPy testing of type hints
  - ByteArray changes (interdependence with PEP)
*** Reformatted helper functions in generate_pyi with class methods
  - potential doc changes
*** Changed all typing classes to have prefix "typing" against name clashes (tricky)
    -> tab browser example to be finished
*** Started systematic fixture of errors: 533 in 7 categories (was 601 before prefix). Seeking general fixture algorithms.
    -> latest logo files need to be pushed
** [https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-2701 PYSIDE-2701] Add a Benchmark batch script to measure progress
  - final release testing
  - TP blog post
==== 17. May 2018 ====
- updated icons/images for Qt for Python project
- PEP updates
  - completed the feature implementation but some bug fixing still open
  - discussed how heap type change and PEP changes could be easily reviewed/merged (huge patch set series)
- coin
  - 5.11 & 5.6 broken, 5.9 & dev working
  - waiting for larger coin update which will enable QtForPython to be more independent from Qt CI configurations
  - Win32 (VS2015 only) pip received some changes but not quite available yet (subject to coin update)
  - Temporary Win32 wheels tests looked promising
- missing bindings for QtCore/Network/Multimedia/GUI/widgets added (https://wiki.qt.io/Qt_for_Python_Missing_Bindings needs updating)
- bindings for QtScxml in the works
- known issue when dealing with unicode data/strings (seg faults)
- various documentation fixes
- dynamic System clang builds with Linux supported
- small build fixes
- Decreased wheel sizes
- more work on blog posts and examples.


==== 10. May 2018 ====
=== 22. August 2024===
- skipped due to public holidays
* General
** Bug fixing week
** uv release 0.3.0 https://astral.sh/blog/uv-unified-python-packaging
** Tag strings https://discuss.python.org/t/pep-750-tag-strings-for-writing-domain-specific-languages/60408
** discussion related to spy
* Infra & Releases
** 6.2 issue with ".commercial" tag on the wheels
** dev will switch to 6.8.0 when the branch is ready.
* Bugs & Features
** PYSIDE-2786 Finished the 3.10 patch to support the new syntax for the pyi files.
** Enabling a process to test pyi with mypy
** Flatpak documentation was merged
** Typing issue related to QByteArray.fromRawData
** QtDS integration continues
**


==== 03. May 2018 ====
=== 15. August 2024===
- coin
* General
  - 5.6 still blocked, 5.9/5.11/dev working
** Bug fixing weekS (2 weeks)
  - Win32 pip still on backlog
** Planning for future work on QtDS
- documentation
* Infra & Releases
  - references to Shiboken being worked on
** Fixing an issue to properly discover the installed WebEngine
  - dot images finally working on https://doc-snapshots.qt.io/qtforpython/index.html
** Note: 6.5 aarch64 releases are only around for PySide, not Qt/C++.
  - various fixes to non-class related docs
** Continue work on libclang pre-built on windows arm64
- PEP updates
* Bugs & Features
  - integration attempts have revealed some issues with shiboken, private ctors/dtors
** PYSIDE-2833 Doc changes: qml tutorials, re-gen docs to fix
  - one patchset series for PEP support and Heap Type changes pending
** Updated Qt Python Scripting (QtPyScript? name to be confirmed)
- license updates
** 6.7.3 changelog preparation
- working on Python 2 & 3 type differences (avoiding developers having to deal with these differences)
** Adjusting branches, because of missing patches.
- Tab Browser example merged
** pyi: fixing more issues
** research on improving the qml + python interaction


==== 26. April 2018 ====
=== 8. August 2024===
- New icons for project in work
* General
- 5.9 branch working  (5.11 branch is broken due to issues on the Qt side)
** Talk accepted for KDE Akademy: "Pythonizing Qt"
- snapshot tool for Windows broken (crashing) -> fix pending but blocked by CI
** Qt Contributor summit session to work with people from the Squish team.
- in the mean time only mac and Linux snapshots working at the moment
** An intern will most probably join the team.
- 5.6 branch broken as well as 5.9 changes for qt5.git need to be merged to 5.6 too
* Infra & Releases
- delivery of 32bit Windows binaries not started
** PySide6_DS will remain being available only for Windows/Linux x86_64 and macOS universal, no aarch64 for Linux
- tiny bug fixes and other types of cleanups (e.g. build scripts) left and right
** Research continues on Windows arm64
- General replacement of Pyside name against Qt for Python (module name remains as Pyside)
* Bugs & Features
- APIExtractor documentation still being merged to git
** PYSIDE-2384 Enum as Sequences issues on Python 3.11
- style sheet issues being addressed
** Signal Manager massive refactoring
- QtWebEngineCore bindings finally merged
** qmlimportscanner new option to exclude directories (for our tooling)
- PEP work ongoing (and coin to work)
** 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


==== 19. April 2018 ====
=== 2. August 2024===
- COIN finally back in working shape
* General
- Further fixes for documentation, module pages, experimentally tried to show in Qt Assistant
* Infra & Releases
- Tab Browser example further improved
** 6.8, 6.7.3 preparations
- Qt for Python blog posts being worked on
** "Qt Design Studio components for PySide6" wheels are now available from pypi.org. https://pypi.org/project/PySide6-DS/
- Continued working on WebEngine issues
* Bugs & Features
- Some investigation and preparations to make WebEngine apps work with PyInstaller (very early phase, still doesn't work)
** Some pyi issues were fixed ( [https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-2788 PYSIDE-2788], [https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-2752 PYSIDE-2752] )
  - Pending patch for QtWebEngineCore bindings
** [https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-2814 PYSIDE-2814] Deployment: spaces can now be used in extra_args
- Installation adjustments for standalone builds on Windows
** [https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-2828 PYSIDE-2828] Updated tutorials
- Heap types are complete. Starting integration with PEP 384.
** [https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-2820 PYSIDE-2820] Fixed Opaque containers to work with QML
- Finished the integration between ApiExtractor and Shiboken documentation.
** Some refactoring of the PySide's signal handling
- Worked on a couple of blog posts.
** [https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-2825 PYSIDE-2825] Added QtWebView
- Wiki structure and started to write the Tutorials
** [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


==== 12. April 2018 ====
=== 25. July 2024===
- Getting Started guide under works by doc engineer
* General
- focus on fixing coin on Mac & RedHat 7.4 (looks promising so far)
** Plan with some brainstorming ideas from last session.
- shiboken documentation and diagrams being updated
* Infra & Releases
  - old and unused docs dir shall be cleaned out
** tqtc/dev branch still broken. Waiting for Finland to come back from vacation :D
- Tab Browser example improved
** DS wheels still need to be tested
- License page generated based on attribution files
* Bugs & Features
- lots of discussion when to release Qt for Python TP
** arm64 shiboken generator not properly working (libclang)
  - after Qt 5.11 release (scheduled for 31.5.)
** 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.
  - likely to be mid June (stay tuned)
** scikit-build research
- WebEngine issues
** signature compression research: dealing with some last details.
  - needs updated qt.conf files to be deployed for apps
*** fullname field, and compression of the strings.
- Heap types (work in progress)
** no-gil research will re-start next month, in order to address the new changes from cpython
- still more work in pipeline to get code PEP 384 ready (Heap types are prerequisite)
** Type hints issues being worked out.
- Qt for Python blog posts being worked on


==== 5. April 2018 ====
- 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 ====
=== 18. July 2024===
- skipped due to Easter holidays
* 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 [https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-2701 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.


==== 22. March 2018 ====
=== 11. July 2024===
- Release process (do we follow Qt?)
* General
  - Release manager provides packages
** Two members of the team at Europython
  - RTA testing to be setup -> for each package we run RTA
* Bugs & Features
  - Request to be put on mailing list
** Work on [https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-2701 PYSIDE-2701] - Binary size reduction
  - Current Test setup proposal
*** An LZMA compressor has been written in Python and C++ with 4.5% win.
    - Win10 (Python 3.6)
*** Reimplementation in C++ only is even easier. (when considered worth it)
    - Linux (Python 3.6/2.7)
*** Study of pybind11/nanobind implementation
    - Mac (Python 3.6/2.7)
** Work on [https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-2803 PYSIDE-2803] - qmlimportscanner and Windows cmd line length limitation
  - To be defined a test set (//TODO)
** Refactoring and cleanup of the Signals/Slot handling code
  - Testing information to be collected in wiki
** Added missing libraries for the QtMultiMedia ffmpeg plugin on macOS
- Documentation
  - QML advanced tutorial documentation updated
  - Landing page in the works
  - snapshot still delayed by other qdoc bugs
  - style sheet update considered
  - so far only dealt with class docs, started to include unrelated doc pages
- snapshot testing (angle & webengine not properly packaged on Windows)
- enum support improved (dealing with scoped enums and enum values)
- general bugfixing to increase stability and address mem leaks
- Talks to PyData submitted
- Qt Charts examples ported
- Proper support for QFlags being worked on
- [https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-595 PYSIDE-595] fixed
- [https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-595 PYSIDE-595] first heap type protoype under review proving that concept works
- [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 ====
===4. July 2024===
- Fix to create 3.6 Linux wheels under review.
* General
- Fix scriptableapplication build on Windows, and other small bugs.
** Next week, two members of the team will be at Europython
- Two QtCharts examples were ported and abstracts were written to submit PyData talks
** Don't forget QtWS 2025 submissions (Until first days of August)
- Updating the QML advanced tutorial and adding index.rst and gettingstarted.rst
** We might get the help from an intern.
- Tried the wheel pkgs for python 27 on Linux. Works OK except the webengine example, which gives random crashes.
* Infra & Releases
- Docs: [https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-620 PYSIDE-620 Shadow build issue] fixed, fixed usage of deprecated Sphinx API,
** LTS Open Source release is out for 6.2.9 (sources)
- Continued on [https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-560 PYSIDE-560], currently  Windows problem with Linkage
** QtDS packages are generated now in the CI
- Debugging on [https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-595 PYSIDE-595], final stages
** Improvements in https://download.qt.io/official_releases/QtForPython/
- Fixed [https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-258 PYSIDE-258]
* 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


==== 08. March 2018 ====
===27. June 2024===
- msvcrt.dll to be shipped on Windows
- wheel snapshots are automatically generated
  - start with public availability under http://download.qt.io/snapshots/ci/
  - snapshots to public pypi server under discussions
- discussion on how to increase value of official pyside mailing list http://lists.qt-project.org/mailman/listinfo/pyside
- looking at build issues on Windows (improving error handling)
- Participation in Python User Group meeting in Berlin (https://www.meetup.com/Python-Users-Berlin-PUB/events/xhqwhpyxfblb/)
- [https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-595 PYSIDE-595] - Heap Type conversions ongoing
  - test bed created for easier development
- [https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-363 Documentation]
  -> 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 ====
* General
- automatic snapshot process almost in place (pending reviews) (RTA to follow)
** Python language summit blog posts.
- general bug fixing (including build and version problems)
* Infra & Releases
- most community Pyside1 pages point to official Pyside 2 (Qt for Python) wiki pages
** Android wheels configuration is running OK.
- [https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-595 PYSIDE-595] - Heap Type conversions ongoing
** Feature freeze for 6.8 on September 11 (for Qt/C++ RC release)
- documentation improving
** Tweaks for the Qt for Python deployment internal guide for Raspberry Pi.
  -> class diagrams being generated
* Bugs & Features
  -> missing links and references
** QtDS: packages ready to go out after CI configuration.
  -> dependencies to qdoc bugs
** QtDS: export option within the tool planned in 2 weeks.
  -> snapshot process in works
** qmlnext: the issue with the example task was find and solved.
- added support for scoped enums in pyside
** PYSIDE-2786 Preparation (future statement) of new syntax for Python 3.9
- Important things discussed:
*** then checkin of deferred 3.10 changes was done.
  - PySide2 versioning (current proposal WIP patch at https://codereview.qt-project.org/#/c/221767/)
** PYSIDE-2701 activities:
    - Do official releases follow Qt branch names? -
*** Removal of generated fullname field (in progress)
      -> yes (minor release of Pyside is bound to same minor release of Qt
*** Further analysis of possible folding savings
      -> patch level version may differ
*** Revived the 2019 PySide 2 comparison viewer
    - Will we have snapshots, and if so, will they be uploaded to pip? How will we handle snapshot versions?
** PYSIDE-2795 FreeCAD problem was solved.
      -> tentative yes, if public pip server supports snapshots Pyside should be good citizen
** PYSIDE-2792 Nested class QMetaObject::Connection (for custom Connection classes)
    - alpha / beta / RC versioning?
** 6.8 QtGraph examples. The module keeps changing.
      -> Pyside should follow the Qt schema
** PYSIDE-2793 memory leak on modbus client.
    - Probably need to take into account PEPs for versions pushed to Pypi.
** Nuitka upgrade 2.3.7: issues with Python 3.12 were fixed.
    - Shiboken / PySide2 versions in sync?
** Some new issues and limitations on the android ci conf (building python from source)
      -> yes, they should be in sync
** Flatpak task continues, and people from KDE is involved in the discussion.
    - Will we specify a version for 5.6 branch?
** pyside6-deploy support case with command line length limitations
      -> yes, but no packages being made
** PYSIDE-2790 Few new bug reports related to QtAsyncio: uncancel not implemented.
    - Are we sticking to the package name PySide2, but follow Qt 5.x versions as PySide2 versions?
** QtAsyncio cancel errors are not propagated.
      -> 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 ====
===20. June 2024===
- dev branch is still/again broken in CI, seems like pyside issues
- changes to create automatic snapshots out of CI is still under review
- Numerous small fixes to the [https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-363 doc] generation, significantly bringing down the number of documentation warnings
- Massaged build rules to improve built packages
  - Removed unnecessary _utils.py file [https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-600 PYSIDE-600]
  - 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]
  - Finally got libclang to be deployed into packages
  - 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]
  - 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]
  - Fixed rpath handling for QtWebEngineProcess when creating standalone packages on macOS [https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-605 PYSIDE-605]
- Added CMake build rules for scriptable application example [https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-597 PYSIDE-597]
- Investigated and fixed a heap corruption bug in a test that caused constant crashes on macOS CI runs
- Reduced number of warnings when running shiboken to create user bindings (like scriptable application example) [https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-587 PYSIDE-587]
- [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.
- Havent's merge [https://codereview.qt-project.org/#/c/220083/ this new patch] because we should be 200% sure it's properly working.
- Working on a few bugs [https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-106 PYSIDE-106] [https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-570 PYSIDE-570]
- 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.


==== 15. February 2018 ====
* General
- CI broken, 5.6 & dev branch broken, 5.9 just got working again
** Interviews going on for a new position and internship.
- 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)
* Infra & Releases
- more modules added to doc, qt3d & qtquick has some special handling
** 6.7.2 was released last Tuesday
- snippet work ongoing
** QtDS package is currently awaiting approval from the team.
- snapshot generation on the agenda
* Bugs & Features
- lots of bug fixing e.g.: [https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-104 PYSIDE-104]
** Android wheels patch integrating. Windows signing issue hopefully fixed.  
- [https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-560 PYSIDE-560]
** 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.


==== 8. February 2018 ====
- Looking through previous EuroPython talks to write a proposal for this year.         
- Working on a few bugs (fixed a couple related to objects references),               
  - that sadly will open new issues with memory management. A further analysis on this matter could improve the current memory leaks on PySide.                         
- Trying to "organise" a little the typesystem XML files.                             
- 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.
- Merged a few build related changes in 5.6
  - Pending change for [https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-593 PYSIDE-593]
  - Pending change for [https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-605 PYSIDE-605]
  - Merged changes for [https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-603 PYSIDE-603] and [https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-604 PYSIDE-604]
- Investigated and attached minimal reproducible example for [https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-585 PYSIDE-585]
- Investigated some macOS build related aspects for package release
- 5.6 CI is unblocked, but 5.9 CI is blocked due to qtbase issues (version bumping)
- [https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-560 PYSIDE-560] waiting for view
- [https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-595 PYSIDE-595] work ongoing, not ready yet
- [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.
- Problems with Qt3D due to refactoring of Qt3Dextras in 5.10. Pushed  [https://codereview.qt-project.org/#/c/219105/ patch] suggestion.


==== 1. February 2018 ====
===13. June 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
- The GettingStarted wiki is getting better, besides a cleaning it a bit
  - moved the topics around to have guidelines by supported platform (''a la Qt'')
  - have received feedback and trying to add more information
- Addressed bugs:
  - [https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-34 PYSIDE-34]
  - [https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-264 PYSIDE-264]
  - cleaning a bit Shiboken's XML files.
  - [https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-560 PYSIDE-560]
    - ported to 5.9, extended to 18 header files
    - solved unicode problem
    - reduced the patches to be minimal (avoid many #ifdef's, use a verbose macro name if possible)
    - 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.
  - [https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-595 PYSIDE-595]
    - Started experimenting
    - 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.
- 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 ====
* General
- Pyside not renamed
** 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.
- Releasing preparation
*** 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.
  - pip packages created by coin
*** Python stubs (pyi) might be compatible with 3.10+
  - Automated release testing (RTA) (installing pip, launching an example)
** Qt Group is sponsoring EuroPython 2024: and we will give a talk!
  - final selection of release package targets to be define closer to release (depending on current stable ABI work)
* Infra & Releases
- Investigation doc issues when using prefix & shadow builds
** 6.7.2 packages are ready to be released.
- Need to identify prime demos/examples
** Boot2Qt had a few issues that were solved.
- Started to rework [[PySide2 GettingStarted|Getting Started Guide]] wiki
** Starting process to test windows arm64 (discussion around libclang)
- Addressed cmake build issues
** Nightly builds:
- Handling libICU issues (causing linker issues when importing QtCore)
*** Possible solution for linux and macOS arm64 android builds.
- Continued work on [https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-560 PYSIDE-560]
*** 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


==== 18. January 2018 ====
===06. June 2024===
  - macOS framework fix (should ignore qt4 system headers)
  - another patch on top to fix OpenGL integer types on mac / Linux (GLuint64, GLint64)
  - 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
  - Completed move of examples from pyside-examples.git to pyside-setup
  - added additional OpenGL2 core example
  - fixed testrunner (these silently failed since forever) https://codereview.qt-project.org/#/c/216732/
  - fixed issues whereby wrong QObject ctors were selected
  - removed webkit from Pyside2 build 
  - talk about Windows specific instructions for [[PySide2 GettingStarted|Getting Started Guide]]
  - Qt3D issues in Qt 5.10 fixes
  - clazy warning fixes
  - Stable ABI work (started to convert implementations) (see [https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-560 PYSIDE-560])
    - requires adoption of HeapTypes
  - QML tutorial updates
  - Doc snapshots being prepared


==== 11. January 2018 ====
* General
- multi pyside packages (not easy to do)
** Maintenance work next week will keep the CI offline (Monday morning, phase I + Wednesday, phase II)
  - unlikely to achieve until TP
** PySide 6.8 will support Python 3.10+
  - a package per python release (3.4, 3.5, 3.6, 2.7)
** Must read https://peps.python.org/pep-0741/
  - package per platform (win 32bit|64bit, mac, linux)
* Infra & Releases
  - long term task to convert to reduced Python API (to support multi 3x packages)
** Some issues with the macOS CI units.
  => have to cut some targets: one 3x and 2.7 release
** Local raspberry pi 4 (aarch64) for testing: 10.9.78.82
  -> create doc howto to encourage custom builds for not covered platform combo
** qtpip 0.1.2 release: mostly issues around the commercial version tag and the usage of '+' and '.'
  -> do we need commercial for release
** 6.5.6 commercial LTS was released.
- pysinstaller is an installer
** 6.7.2 release will happen soon (due to an issue with designer)
  -> deployqt tool not necessary
** 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
  -> documentation required stating the option
* Bugs & Features
- rename import options
** https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-2622 - Standalone mode for Deployment as per many requests from users
  - rename via alias possible
** Deployment tests fixed with a custom PySide6 build. There might be corner cases that were missed.
  -> still an issue when looking up particular types but probably manageable 
** 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)
  - renaming option: Qt4Pyton, QtPy, QtPython, Python4Qt, Qt
** Patches ready for updating python syntax to drop typing.Optional (and use | instead) that will go in once we drop 3.9
- example shift
** Preparing presentation and improvements to QtAsyncio
  - https://codereview.qt-project.org/#/c/215900/
** PYSIDE-2440 will be prepared.
- Basics for doc generation toolchain
** op codes changing in Python, is altering some of our internal implementation, like the forgiveness mode.
- Issues where cmake picks up platform Qt references where it should use a Qt custom install
** https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-2751 planned work for the no-gil feature in Python 3.13
- Qt3D bindings still under progress
** smart pointers with lazy loading were not working, but a fix was merged.
- [https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-34 PYSIDE-34] & [https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-560 PYSIDE-560]
** Qt Designer had a regression that motivated 6.7.2
- Documentation
** Qt 6.8 adaption taking a lot of work due to doc changes and QtGraphs
  - minor doc fixes
** PYSIDE-2772 issue ended up being a user problem
  - documenting examples


==== 4. January 2018 ====
===30. May 2024===
- multi pyside packages (not easy to do)
- renaming Pyside to "Qt for Python"
  - quite challenging due to implied import and lib changes
  - alias for existing imports would be beneficial
- discussion around existing function test
  -> working assumption is that we ignore added function and check for existing base line only
  -> effort too large to maintain every single new addition
- discussed issues around concurrent existing Qt builds while building pyside (potential cross leakage)
- various fixes to doc generation steps (see [https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-363 PYSIDE-363])
- discussed need for good examples as part of documentation
  -> considered options to cleanup and remove need for submodule


== 2017 ==
* 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
** [https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-2766 PYSIDE-2766] - Android wheels from macOS successful. Patches for review.
*** Testing a sample app now + Modifying https://codereview.qt-project.org/c/pyside/pyside-setup/+/537466
** 6.8 adaption is in progress [qtcharts is a bit unstable]
** c++20 research to improve libshiboken
** qtscrypt progressing to support signal/slot
** dev will support python 3.10+ [for 6.8+]
** PYSIDE-2767 pyi improvements.
** lazy init for nested types disrupted the smart pointer support.
** https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-2440 type hints optionallity is planned to be implemented.


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===23. May 2024===
* General
* Infra & Releases
** Preparing 6.7.1 with a lot of fixes
** 5.15.17 LTS released
* Bugs & Features
** [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-2749 PYSIDE-2749] Worked on a performance regression related to Lazy Init
** [https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-2758 PYSIDE-2758] Added QQuickWebEngineProfile.setUrlRequestInterceptor()
** [https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-2762 PYSIDE-2762] Fixed a type hinting bug
** Brushed up and fixed a few examples
** 6.8 Adaption
** Python 3.13 check
** [https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-2751 PYSIDE-2751] Python 3.13 first step towards --disable-gil compatibility (no ob_refcnt)
** pyside6-deploy. Ignore files with .webp, .cpp.o, .qsb and .qen extension as Nuitka errors with them.
** Close to macOS cross compilation


==== 21. December 2017 ====
===16. May 2024===
- Issues building for Windows for Python 2 and 3 (on coin)
* General
- discussing potential pyside demo/example for RTA purposes
* Infra & Releases
- Continued work on macOS / Qt 4 header issues, progress is there
** 5.15.17 commercial lts needs to be re-packaged one more time due to 3rd party components updates.
  - breaks GL signature test on Linux, needs further investigation
** 6.7.1 release will also be re-packed. LE for release is 20th of May
- Investigated PyInstaller (potential option to deploy apps written with Pyside)
* Bugs & Features
  - seems to work almost out-of-the-box for deploying PySide apps
** [https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-2753 PYSIDE-2753] - Added missing libQt6DeclarativeOpcUa binary to wheels
- Investigated building one package compatible with multiple Python 3.x minor versions
** [https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-2750 PYSIDE-2750] - Added missing libQt6VirtualKeyboardSettings binary to wheels
  - not possible currently, will require a lot of work, possibly not feasible
** 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
  => we need to build 3.4,3.5,3.6 * win, linux, mac packages = 9 packages
** Working on macOS cross compilation. The clang parser of shiboken generator needs some changes for cross compilation. Tricky changes incoming.
  => 3 more for each platform and Python 2.x
** [https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-2748 PYSIDE-2748] - Fixed a type hint error
  => commercial packages?
** [https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-2747 PYSIDE-2747] - Diagnostics and minor fixes for a crash on Fedora, no real fix though
- lots of discussions and fixing of doc tool chain (qdoc in dev currently broken)
** [https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-2711 PYSIDE-2711] - Fixed a bug in QWidget/QObject.parent()
  - adding documentation has begun in earnest
** Work on type discovery in libshiboken, added helpers to dump internal state, performance considerations
- continued work on PYSIDE-578
** [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.


==== 7. December 2017 ====
===2. May 2024===
- 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 ====
* General
- packaging related coin changes
** OKR reviews for the next quarter.
- last weeks merges between 5.6 and 5.9+ blocking coin have been fixed (in particular on RHEL)
** Got a long document with feedback of a few tools we provided, that will help us improving our tooling!
  - 5.9 + 5.6 are passing, dev has some private Qt changes which will affect pyside/dev
** Started the planning of moving away from '<file>.pyproject' to 'pyproject.toml' for pyside projects, in order to add options for our tools.
- lots of coin infrastructure issues
* Infra & Releases
- RTA test wheels added (install and launch single example)
** 5.15.17 commercial lts needs to be re-packaged due to 3rd party components updates.
- crash bugs in 5.6 branch reported but not details known yet (waiting for more details)
** 6.7.1 to be released next week.
- some discussion what changes should be put to 5.6 vs 5.9 branch
** Add new mechanism to test snapshot wheels.
- Qt3D bindings started
* Bugs & Features
  - some changes in qt3d/5.9 required)
** [https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-2698 PYSIDE-2698] - ListProperty features fixed. Added tests to check all the features.
  - shiboken bugs discovered in the process (virtual function guessing & some comparison operators for namespace generated)
** [https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-2705 PYSIDE-2705] - issues with signal disconnect warnings fixed
- small regression related to rpath handling on Linux
** macOS cross compilation for Android - stuck on a CMake issue. Progressing well.
- open pip wheel issues:
** [https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-2709 PYSIDE-2709] - Analysis ongoing for this QML registration regression
  - handling of multi Python version wheels
** Work on improving/documenting type discovery in shiboken
- testrunner bugs addressed and reducing flakiness
** Enumeration support in QtScrypt
- issues in Pyside when building with gcc 7.x
** [https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-2676 PYSIDE-2676] - PEP 697 extension in Python 3.12 fixed
- qdoc from qt5/dev is required for pyside due to webxml support
** BT bug research, cannot be reproduced and application doesn't hang. Connection is not successful.
  - it is a problem for the pyside/5.9 branch
*** 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


==== 23. November 2017 ====
- pip wheel support issues on Linux solved (not yet verified)
  -> libICU usage on Linux should be enabled via pyside setup script
  -> downloaded from qt account download area
  - discussion how to do wheel builds for different Qt base lines -> implies to different wheel packages
  - need to evaluate how different python versions on various Linux distros impact wheel binaries
  - target: 6 wheels (2 per platform for 2.7 & 3.5+ Python)
  - OpenGL example
  - merge 5.6-> 5.9 attempted
    - signature update to match Qt 5.9 ABI/signatures
    - plenty of testing flakiness and also test crashes
  - improvements to signature tests


==== 16. November 2017 ====
===25. April 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
** Successful talk at PyCon DE. Good response.
- Added QAxContainer, more classes from 5.10
* Infra & Releases
- Preparing to add Qt3D
** Preparing 6.7.1
- Removed flaky test
** 5.15.17 Commercial LTS is also soon to be prepared
- further research on how pip wheels might be used for Pyside
** sccache seems to be not properly behaving (on windows) because we are not getting enough output.
  - seems to work well on win & macOS
** PySide6_DS wheel to be adjusted and hopefully be released soon.
  - problems on Linux related to libICU (or in general due to different system libraries)
* Bugs & Features
- implemented and tested --standalone feature for the main Qt platforms [https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-558 PYSIDE-558]
** Added a number of new classes
- open question remains how 3rdparty Pyside deployment path might look like
** PYSIDE-2676 issues on ubuntu (might be related to a windows issue as well)
- [https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-510 PYSIDE-510]
** 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


==== 9. November 2017 ====
===18. April 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:
** Bug fixing week
  - continued work on macOS installer
** PyConDE (Mon-Wed next week)
  - binaries must be patched during the install from repo (rpath setting)
** Planning a workshop for TQtC solution engineers (internal)
  - adopting the scripts from Qt for Pyside
** Possibility to include shiboken into the Axivion infra
  - made pip install work on Mac -> would be alternative to online installer approach
* Infra & Releases
    - two deployment choices available
** 5.15.17 commercial LTS was postponed to Friday. Still need test on Windows.
- discussions on how void* pointer should be handled, two options on the table
** 6.5.6 release planned
  - add additional Pyside module handling such pointers
** 6.7.1 release has been postponed to the first week of May
  - add feature to shiboken to transparently add the support to any arbitrary C++/pyside project using shiboken
** DS-compatibility wheel postponed due to CI issues
- documentation snapshot generated
** We might need to create a testing platform in order to check other errors that are not detectable with simple tests.
- simplified setup-pyside and related build script options
* 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.


==== 26. October 2017 ====
===11. April 2024===
- Releasing:
* General
  - test repo for online installer created (mac seems to deploy)
** Bug fixing week.
  - first evaluation of suggested installer approach on various platforms
** Qt 6.6.3 Library split broke our release, so we provided 6.6.3.1 as a fix.
  - Documentation:
** Qt 6.7.0 also had an issue with a binary incompatibility change on QtAudio and QAudio
  - Qt doc team joined the effort
** Maybe we implement a simple channel of communicating this details, in order to avoid breakage [maybe architect meetings]
  - first experiences are collected
** Qt Creator 13 creates venvs automatically. This needs to be revisited to avoid multiple environments to be created.
  - should new documentation be done in rst rather than qdoc format?
** New epics with brainstorming ideas.
  - Getting started, General platform requirements and general fixes turning up during generation
* Infra & Releases
- [https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-571 PYSIDE-571] received further fixes and reviews
** 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.
- REDHAT not working on Coin (caused by gcc header issues)
** 5.15.17 commercial LTS to be release next week.
- other minor improvements
** 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.


==== 19. October 2017 ====
===4. April 2024===
- Discuss open Pyside 2 release & documentation
* General
- Release packaging suggestion
** Large part of the team at conferences/on Easter holiday
  - Qt for Python installed via Qt installer and python scripts pointed to module via PYTHON_PATH
* Infra & Releases
  - create test online repository for Qt installer
** Released 6.6.3.1 release with fixes for Quick Controls/Multimedia
  - follow up how this Pyside installation approach might impact deployment of Python apps using Qt for Python
** Preparing for 6.7.0
  - Linux distros shipping Pyside? (not sure yet either)
* Bugs & Features
- coin
** [https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-2646 PYSIDE-2646] Improved cleanup of signal manager objects
  - breakage in CI provisioning due to competing Python binaries coming from MSVC 2017
** [https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-2662 PYSIDE-2662] Fix for a signal in OpcUA
  - coin template needs updating
** [https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-2663 PYSIDE-2663] Fixed a crash in webengine bindings
- [https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-571 PYSIDE-571] work progressing (ready for review)
** [https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-2668 PYSIDE-2668] Fixed an error in enums
- lots of fixes in Pyside dev branch and
- feedback from Qt World Summit:
  - is Pyside on Android and iOS?
  - iOS probably out since platform cannot have interpreted code
  - Scriptable application use case was a sought after feature
  - qdoc got WebXML patch -> open question which version to use for doc generation across the various pyside versions
    - add script to support single command to generate documentation


==== 12. October 2017 ====
===28. March 2024===
- no update due to Qt World Summit 2017
* General
* Infra & Releases
** Prepared 6.6.3.1 release; 6.6.3 was unfortunately broken due to missing libraries (Quick Controls/Multimedia)
* 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


==== 05. October 2017 ====
===21. March 2024===
- Qt DataVisualization port has finished including an example
* General
- Coin no progress due to pending Qt 5.9.2 release
** Ideas to improve the module.
- webxml support being implemented inside qdoc (beginning of the pyside documentation toolchain)
** 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.


==== 28. September 2017 ====
===14. March 2024===
- 5.6 and 5.9 branches are *finally* enforced by CI - yeeeaaahh
* General
- Dev branch is still missing some forward merges before it can be enabled.
** PyConDE schedule is out, don't miss Shyam's talk https://pretalx.com/pyconde-pydata-2024/talk/W7YDRX/
- port of QtDataVisualization progressing
** Python 3.13.0a5 is out.
- 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]
* Infra & Releases
- [https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-156 PYSIDE-156] in progress, first example of qApp protection, benchmark of impact ongoing
** 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


==== 21. September 2017 ====
===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.


- Prototyping and exploring of Pyside packaging options
===29. February 2024===
- [https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-510 PYSIDE-510] done and merged
- [https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-156 PYSIDE-156] being addressed thanks to [https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-510 PYSIDE-510]
- [https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-487 PYSIDE-487] Qt Data Visualization port progressing


==== 14. September 2017 ====
* General
- Coin
** Leap day!
  - 5.6 testing is back online (5.9 target unblocking pending a merge)
** Documentation changes
  - Packaging of Pyside started to become a discussion topic
* Infra & Releases
    - Standard PIP deployment
** 6.7.0 will drop support of Python 3.8
    - Separate delivery via the usual Qt account channel
** 6.5.5 to be released in the following days
- void* support has a pending patch (https://codereview.qt-project.org/#/c/205124/ and related example https://codereview.qt-project.org/#/c/205272/)
** 6.7.0 RC marks our feature freeze, some exceptions will be discussed in order to release on time.
- Documentation work ongoing
** qtpip 0.1.1 to be released soon for new indexing and shiboken_wizard package
  - WebXML support was added to qdoc - see [https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-363 PYSIDE-363]
** General update of Python versions in our CI configuration is being planned (for dev-6.7)
  - inputting the resulting WebXML to shiboken gave promising results
* Bugs & Features
  - Qt Creator gain ability to fold away Python license headers
** PYSIDE-2599 QMatrix3x3 issues with QVariant
- Signature patch (https://codereview.qt-project.org/#/c/198654/)
** 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


==== 7. September 2017 ====
===22. February 2024===
- Pyside CI broken (timeout for tests is zero)
* General
  - Pyside provisioning scripts are very fragile
** Brainstorming discussion about new JIRA items.
  - 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
** 6.6.2 was released!
- New Bindings: QRegularExpression, QVersionNumber, QUuid,
** qtpip getting a new minor version in order to be able to install new shiboken wizard
- Discussions around Documentation for pyside
* Bugs & Features
  - couple of options for generation pipeline
** Permission API issue failing on the release framework. QtLocation problems were addressed.
    1.) qdoc generates WebXML -> Shiboken converts WebXML to ReST (used to work in Qt 4 days)
** QtAsyncio blog post was published.
    2.) qdoc is lib which creates AST - > shiboken uses the AST to generate ReST
** 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.
    3.) \pyside to document python classes (lots of documentation effort and not ReST integratable)
** Lazy initialization of numpy support in PySide, to improve the general lazy loading effort.
    4.) minimalistic approach is to merely link to the Qt object class reference (python specific docs are somewhat separate
** Starting documenting pyside6-* tools
- [https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-516 PYSIDE-516] further investigation how to deal with void* APIs
** PYSIDE-2610 Qt3D issues
  -> prototyping ongoing
** 6.7 adaption was a lot of work, namespaces were something tricky.
- [https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-510 PYSIDE-510] redesigned once again (no more internal Python dependencies, Python version independent implementation)
** 6.7 changelog drafted.
 
** Started to improve the type hinting issues.
==== 31. August 2017 ====
- 5.9 passes on all platforms but one (10.10 still failing)
  -> fix for provisioning scripts pending
- 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 ====
===15. February 2024===
- Coin 5.9 provisioning is in place, but there are some issues with paths to tools which are being addressed
- Build issue on Windows 10 5.9 branch, addressed by patch in review https://codereview.qt-project.org/#/c/203406/
- Fix to macOS build when old Qt 4.8 is present, addressed by patch https://codereview.qt-project.org/#/c/203313/
- [https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-516 PYSIDE-516] progress on bringing in more of the QOpenGL classes
- [https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-560 PYSIDE-560] stable ABI was investigated, decision is required
- [https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-510 PYSIDE-510] finalizing license modifications
- [https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-156 PYSIDE-156] ongoing implementation for fixing qApp crashes
- [https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-552 PYSIDE-552] in process of being merged
- [https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-562 PYSIDE-562] pending patch
- [https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-563 PYSIDE-563] in process of being merged
- PySide 2 presentation being prepared for Qt World Summit 2017


==== 17. August 2017 ====
* General
- Almost everyone is still on holiday - not much progress
** Brainstorming session was held.
- PySide 5.9 branch CI changes are still pending integration / ongoing due to issues with the CI infrastructure switch
** Europython Call for Proposal is open!
- Investigation ongoing regarding QSSL classes on 5.9 branch
* Infra & Releases
- PYSIDE-510 - ongoing work to make separation of different licensed code
** 6.6.2 release waiting for Qt/C++ packages to be done.
- PYSIDE-156 - initial work to stop crashes when using methods that require an allocated QApplication instance
** Commercial 6.5.5 LTS to be out next week.
- PYSIDE-558 - initial investigation on how to proceed
** Some improvements to the CI and macOS behavior
- Updated the PySide2 wiki documentation to clear up build steps and requirements.
** 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.


==== 10. August 2017 ====
- 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 ====
===8. February 2024===
- PYSIDE-510 under code review https://codereview.qt-project.org/198654
  -> license issues have to be addressed
  -> some testing aspects still open (delayed till later on)
  -> investigation of impact on deployment across multiple python run-time versions required
- missing bindings script/wiki page updated: [[PySide2_Missing_Bindings|Missing PySide2 bindings]]
- 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]
- Missing classes in works (e.g. QAbstractnativeEventFilter, QFileLock,....)
  -> revealed some issues of handling void* pointers


==== 27. July 2017 ====
* General
- Fix for [https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-331 PYSIDE-331] causes lots crashes in auto tests
** We got a PyConDE 2024 talk accepted (python -> android deployment)!
  -> more investigation ongoing
* Infra & Releases
- coin
** Addressing some issues with the android wheels
  - since 5.6 is now enforced by Qt CI the focus shifted to the 5.9 branch of Pyside
** 6.6.2 got delayed until next week
  - still encountering build issues on 5.6 though
** Preparing for the 6.7 switch on dev
  - cmake upgrade for macOS 10.10
* Bugs & Features
  - missing virtual env for macOS 10.12 being deployed
** macOS: permission api patches ready for review
  - msvc 2013 being removed from CI targets
** singleShot patches merged
  - clang on OpenSuSE deployment ongoing
** Lazy initialization was finished, and ready for discussion.
  - lots of effort went into debugging the above Coin issues
** Check compatibility with the new REST module (from Qt/C++)
- numpy support for 2d array feature development progressing ([https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-354 PYSIDE-354])
** Preparations for 6.7 continues.


==== 20. July 2017 ====
===1. February 2024===
- coin
  - license test passing
  - setup issues wit Python 3 and msvc 2008 vs 2015 issues
  => need to install newer Python 3 binaries
  => otherwise looks like enforced testing can be set alive on 5.6 branch
  - 5.9 still having clang header issues
- 2D array support work in progress
- [https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-331 PYSIDE-331] -> waiting for PYSIDE-510 dependency
- [https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-510 PYSIDE-510]-> issues with Python 2.x left
- need to get a handling what functions are not supported by pyside due to exclusions or missing support in shiboken


==== 13. July 2017 ====
* General
- coin
** Interest from KDE to enable flatpak packages (maybe base pyside app).
  - Production coin was updated today and all fixes are finally executed
** Discussion on adding more tutorials of specific functionality.
  - 5.6  
** CI Maintenance Break next Monday (first Monday of each month)
  - macOS 10.11 machines have Python 2.6, which causes test script to fail due its usage of a
* Infra & Releases
          module added in 2.7. Investigation in progress on the best way to fix this.
** no unity build discussion and checks
  - build failure with Windows 8.1 (msvc2013-x86)  
** 6.6.2 to be released next week.
  - 5.9
** More granularity on the commercial wheels: shiboken wizard wheel.
  - macOS 10.12 missing virtual env (https://codereview.qt-project.org/200006)
* Bugs & Features
  - Rest Linux/macOS configs are failing various build issues
** 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.
  - dev is still pending for qt5 merge from 5.9 
** Android: using the master branch on python-for-android, and other changes related for macOS deployment.
- [https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-510 PYSIDE-510] development completed, test added, needs review
** PYSIDE-2597 optimization for the deployment procedure
- [https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-331 PYSIDE-331] ongoing work
** 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-550 PYSIDE-550] investigated, needs a working solution to allow proper building on distros that separate Qt private headers into separate packages
** 6.7 adaptation still in progress (many changes from Qt)
- [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.
** 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


==== 29. June 2017 ====
- coin
  - Qt 5.6 all coin changes for Pyside are done but waiting for coin production update (after Qt 5.9.1 release)
  - Pyside/Qt 5.6 on new OpenNebula infrastructure confirmed to run
  - Qt 5.9 based setup still misses clang libs (merge pending)
  - Pyside/Qt 5.9 test failure fixes on macOS
- worked on array support (passing arrays between Pyside and Qt API) - work in progress ([https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-354 PYSIDE-354])
- continued work on debug builds across the platforms
- embedded Python example under review (further testing across the platforms)
- [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]
- added a way to dynamically detect the available Qt modules in Pyside


==== 22. June 2017 ====
===25. January 2024===
- building pyside on Win with debug and non-debug
- QSSL* classes do not build on macOS & Windows (patch in progress)
- dll name handling work finished (build system issues were addressed)
- PYSIDE-531 discussions
- coin
  - followup from 18 May (windows issues in coin)
  - test runner changes being merged should address this
  - new regression on macOS targets though
  - 5.9 issues due to clang continue to exist (will be addressed after 5.6 is enforced)


==== 15. June 2017 ====
* General
- dll name handling fixed across the platforms (e.g. pkgconfig handling)
** Configuring additional embedded devices for RTA
- PYSIDE-500 fixed
** Focus on spending some time on embedded linux, in order to see usability, and compatibility with Boot2Qt images.
- PYSIDE-331 is still not done (in parts a module by module fix is required)
** Conferences: submissions to PyCon SK, PyCon DE, PyCon LT, PyCon US
- PYSIDE-510 ongoing
* Infra & Releases
- no further progress on coin
** Decouple of the commercial wheels in order to have a finer granularity and simpler tree on the Qt Installer (Maintenance Tool)
- Getting started guide has been updated dealing with Qt 5.6 and Qt 5.9 based Pyside builds
** Qt for Python 6.6.2 is waiting for Qt to be released (by the end of the month)
- scriptable Pyside example been developed to demonstrate SDK-like usage of Pyside
** The next 5.15.13 LTS open source release will include a new fix for a missing symbol (PyIndex_Check)
- lots of small infrastructure changes/fixes
** New CI configuration without '--unity' for manual testing, to spot issues.
* Bugs & Features
** VS Code will use .flake8 (formerly setup.cfg) file for configuration once merged
** PYSIDE-2575: Added a new argument to QtAsyncio to configure whether the QCoreApplication at the core of QtAsyncio should be shut down when asyncio finishes (requested by user).
** SingleShot timer issue: Slight "complexity explosion" because correct implementation for one case requires implementation of QObject.connect overload with context arguments (and we implement QObject.connect ourselves, see PySide::qobjectConnectCallback).
** Scripting: code simplification, and massage it to a Qt module.
** Documentation updates to fix issues we had.
** Unity build some issues when building without.
** 6.7 updates, adapting some warning messages
** QTBUG-99313 related issues
** macOS permissions: made an example to work (for deployed apps) - patches incoming
** Android wheels provisioning and configuration in order to generate the base-wheels.
** armv7 complications due to an upstream find_python command.
** Lazy initialization: re-wrote approach from scratch, to reduce the patches to one that can be analyzed easily. Some complications with this approach that needs to be improve. It can be tried with https://codereview.qt-project.org/c/pyside/pyside-setup/+/496118
*** https://peps.python.org/pep-0690/ was rejected, but the idea can be implemented per-module
** Moving entry_points declaration to pyproject.toml from setup.py
** Drop the bdist_wheel steps from the CI (old wheels)
** Started working on split commercial wheels, wheels for QtDS and examples on QtCreator.


==== 8. June 2017 ====
===18. January 2024===
- Proposed solution for PYSIDE-500
- Further work on example for PYSIDE-526, work on shiboken2 command line handling to ease usage with qmake
- Updated Getting started Wiki
- Introspection work continued (PYSIDE-510)


==== 1. June 2017 ====
* General
- PYSIDE-500
* Infra & Releases
- https://wiki.qt.io/PySide2_GettingStarted needs a serious cleanup
** Commercial LTS 6.2.11 was released
  - 5.6 vs 5.9 differences not explained
** Add missing tags OSS LTS 5.15.x
  - specify exact version matching conditions
** 6.6.2 scheduled by the end of the month
- pyside repo merge completed
** Release documentation to be written to have tasks on JIRA
  - Coin changes required to catchup - > recent CI issues have caused delay
* Bugs & Features
- Introspection work continued (PYSIDE-510) -> not yet complete
** Python Scripting: looking into stable API, and cleanup
- qtcharts and related examples have been ported (5.9 only)
** PYSIDE-2577 doxygen issue
- license header checks of Pyside for Coin able to distinguish branches
** PYSIDE-2570 closing some roadmap items
- Array support for Pyside missing (numpy_array support?)
** 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


==== 18. May 2017 ====
===11. January 2024===
- Coin
  - Win nodes didn't run the cleanup functions -> test failures due to artifacts -> no solution yet
  - Clang issues persist and this must be addressed in the broader scope of Qt/qdoc depending on libclang too
    -> until this point in time the setup is a manual one for pyside/5.9+
- merge of psyide repositories -> no objections against the plan in the community
  -> merge will happen in the next few days (pyside.git, pyside-setup.git and shiboken.git become one repo)
  -> examples, wiki and tools will remain as they are
- QOpenGL* porting continuing
- qttext2speech ported to Pyside2
- failing QML tests in Qt 5.9 based Pyside
- PYSIDE-510 - introspection solution in the works
- Qt World Summit Berlin 2017 (talk for Pyside being handed in)


==== 12. May 2017 ====
* General
- 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.
** Hackathon at TQtC
- Fixed a small regression in 5.9 with building on macOS after some cmake changes that happened in 5.6
** CI process presentation
- Implemented, tested, reviewed and committed the multimedia widgets examples
* Infra & Releases
- documentation from Pyside1 days can not be generated anymore
** Commercial LTS 6.5.4 release starting (to be finished today)
  -> new approach required using exiting Qt5 doc tools
** Commercial LTS 6.2.11 still pending release
- QOpenGL* port to Pyside has started -> missing support for arrays in shiboken
** 6.6.2 schedule by the end of the month.
  - more thorough design discussion needed
** CI still showing some issues after the maintenance break.
- Coin
** Update of the Python versions are pending.
  - provisioning for clang in Qt CI ongoing: https://codereview.qt-project.org/#/c/192517/10
* 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. May 2017 ====
===04.January 2024===
- Coin
* General
  - libclang 4.0 provisioning available (code reviews ongoing -> enabler for Pyside and qdoc testing)
** Happy new year fellow readers :D
  - 5.6 coin issues resolved
** New OKR organization
  - macOS related CI/cmake failures were resolved
** Keeping in an eye on Conferences
  - some CI sync issues among pyside submodules (always submodules HEAD is tested)
** PyPy is now on 3.10
  => may have to change once we come closer to the final release ->
** Ideas on the wheel organization for the Qt Installer
  => fine as long as we are in heavy development mode
* Infra & Releases
  - discussion around Ubuntu and OpenSuse configurations
** CI Maintenance break continues. Some new issues were discovered.
  - minimal cmake requirements not met on all distros
** Pending releases: 6.2.11 and 6.5.4
    - 5.6 only be build using RedHat 6.6
** Android [https://download.qt.io/snapshots/ci/pyside/test/Android/aarch64/ wheels for testing] purposes are available (not for production)  
    - 5.9 builds have updated Linux distros -> may be able to obtain a new cmake version without hacking the standard toolchain
** Xcode issues with a new M3
- QtMultimedia and QRaster* API bindings further completed
** Planning the inclusion of Python 3.12 in the CI
- added tests and examples for the above bindings/APIs
* Bugs & Features
- PYSIDE-510 (required for simplified and more generic testing of bindings)
** async: A few bug fixes were pushed and ready for review
- PYSIDE-504 work is ongoing
** async: the module is missing from our docs
- PYSIDE-507 -> avoid hardcoded includes when certain Qt modules are not available
** async: we have been getting some interests from users, so new issues are appearing.
- brief discussion whether to merge the shiboken and pyside repo
** new android tag added to the examples for a better browsing
  -> advantages from a CI perspective and reduces pyside setup complexity
** 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.


==== 26. April 2017 ====
==2023==
- Coin
  - provision for 5.9+ branches -> we would like to use libclang 4.0
  - test still not yet executed due to branch mismatch which pulls in dev branches
- missing bindings in QtCore/QtGui/QtMultimedia - work in progress
- clang support done (except for a Mac issue)
  - Pyside clang version required Qt 5.7 or later
- [https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-500 PYSIDE-500] done
- work on PYSIDE-500, 502, 504, 497 will continue
- qdoc work started trying to recover whatever documentation is left from Pyside 1.x


==== 20. April 2017 ====
*[[Qt for Python Development Notes 2023]]
- Fix for [https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-331 PYSIDE-331] broke the Windows build; under investigation
- Refactoring, fixed build warnings
- Looked at debug builds on Windows


==== 13. April 2017 ====
==2022==
- 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 ====
*[[Qt for Python Development Notes 2022]]
- 5.6 branch created
- 5.9 branch to be created as well (easier setup for Qt 5.9 testing in Coin)
- Coin
  - not passing build platforms have been disabled
  - otherwise COIN passing on 5.6 (except for 2 failing test) -> soon to be enforced
  - license checker passing in dev
- clang changes merged to dev branch (after reviews)
  - clang provisioning on Coin still missing
- for now shiboken is not a generic C++ bindings generator (targeting Qt use cases only)
- TODO: enabling the generation of documentation from repos
- fixed mixed usage of debug and release build (no debug builds for windows)
- [PYSIDE-331] work continuing - fixed, tests are missing


==== 30. March 2017 ====
==2021==
- 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 ====
*[[Qt for Python Development Notes 2021]]
- 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 ====
==2020==
- Coin
  - the fixes are still integrating or are under review (no further progress until this is done)
- clang parser replacement [https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-323 PYSIDE-323]
  - most test failures related to clang are fixed
  - tests ran pretty much through on Qt 5.9 (Windows and Linux - Mac not yet verified)
  - code cleanups in shiboken
  - will create feature branch on all pyside repos to get the clang patch series under CI control
  - merges from regular pyside branches into clang branch will commence
  - readme required that explains how clang is to be built (if not provided by platform)
- [PYSIDE-331] - in progress


==== 09. March 2017 ====
*[[Qt for Python Development Notes 2020]]
- 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 ====
==2019==
- Coin
  - Coin runs tests on Windows and OSX (some failures in the test - to be investigated)
  - Windows provisioning somewhat blocked due to CI issues
  - no progress on Linux
  - OSX 10.8 ran tests with expected results
  - OSX 10.9 has issues due to Pyside not supporting namespace builds of Qt
- clang
  - preprocessor has remaining issue
    -> with clang compiler but gcc seems OK
    -> Qt Core wrapper close to compiling (QHash issues remaining)
- Smart pointer work continues
  - some uses cases work, other use cases might remain
- [https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-364 PYSIDE-364] was fixed (patch pending)
- General error review on bugreports.qt.io
  - 50% done (prioritized bugs are handled/checked bugs - "done" bugs)
- ran address and leak sanitizer over Pyside which resulted in some worrying cases (need to be addressed going forward)


==== 22. February 2017 ====
*[[Qt for Python Development Notes 2019]]
- [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 ====
==2018==
- 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 ====
*[[Qt for Python Development Notes 2018]]
- Clang progressed
  - pure C++ tests for API extractions are passing (C++ parsing based on clang)
  - even works with cmake
  - old C++ preprocessor still to be replaced
  - working through old preprocessor and checking what magic it did and how clang might be able to replace it
- PYSIDE-315 & PYSIDE-462 fixes pending for review
- COIN
  - continue progress an getting more platforms to pass (unblocking one step at a time)
  - Windows (32bit) and mac are building, Win 64bit still not building
  - OSX and Windows are stopping in the test runner phase
  - missing cmake update still on Linux (provisioning update required)
 
==== 26 January 2017 ====
- 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 ====
- PYSIDE-315
  - a possible fix is pending, some minor performance improvements are still possible
  - caused by different signal/slot ordering in Qt4 and Qt 5
- COIN
  - issues on 10.8 and 10.9 platforms should pass now
  - 10.11 & 10.10 still have issues
  - Windows timeout problem fix in COIN (but no COIN update until 5.8.0 released)
  - Linux builds are failing
    - Ubuntu 14.04 fails due to cmake issue
    - Redhat 6.6 & OpenSuse 13.01 deferred
  - current COIN freeze for 5.8.0 release affecting patching of COIN for Pyside
  - next steps in priority -> run tests on 10.8/10.9 and get Linux running
- PYSIDE-79 regression fixed as well (some interaction between PYSIDE-315 & PYSIDE-79)
- PYSIDE-462 to be looked at next
- clang parser work progressing
 
==== 12 January 2017 ====
- 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 ====
- COIN update
  - COIN changes merged (no further patches pending)
  - need to run an integration test
  - issues related to different build platforms still to be expected
- Continue with clang
  - backtracking a bit (reusing some node API's during parsing but otherwise use clang to populate the tree)
- test blacklisting reviewed (some removed - mostly signal related ones, one new regression)
- regressions in QtQuick were worked around (caused by recent Qt Quick changes)
- issues with macos framework style includes in Qt
- PYSIDE-315 debugging ongoing, very hard to track down
  - was it a regression from a previous Pyside release (e.g. Qt 5.4?!?
- hard-copied Qt 5.4 based headers still in existence
  - updated needed but would shut Qt 5.4 users out
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==== 22 December 2016 ====
- 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 ====
- 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 ====
- 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 ====
- 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 ====
- 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 ====
- 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 ====
- 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 ====
- 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 ====
- 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 ====
- [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 ====
- 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 ====
- 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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