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=== 25. November 2021 ===  | |||
* Releases and Infra  | |||
** 6.2.2 next Tuesday  | |||
*** Quick3D and Universal wheels, Shared pointers None story.  | |||
** OpenGL issue solved for setup.py wheel creation (cmake builds are affected)  | |||
** Research on 3.10.0 on Windows  | |||
* Bugs  | |||
** PYSIDE-1710 problematic to keep compatibility with Python 2  | |||
*** wheel tester fails, let us stop testing on python 2  | |||
** share smart pointer issues, comparison and nullptr  | |||
** 1715 crash is fixed  | |||
** gallery tool issue with a jpeg file  | |||
* Features  | |||
** documentation warnings  | |||
** brushing up some opengl code  | |||
** creating a libpysideqml  | |||
** Continuing with the PyPy issues  | |||
==== 18. November 2021 ====  | ==== 18. November 2021 ====  | ||
Revision as of 09:19, 25 November 2021
2021
25. November 2021
- Releases and Infra
- 6.2.2 next Tuesday
- Quick3D and Universal wheels, Shared pointers None story.
 
 - OpenGL issue solved for setup.py wheel creation (cmake builds are affected)
 - Research on 3.10.0 on Windows
 
 - 6.2.2 next Tuesday
 - Bugs
- PYSIDE-1710 problematic to keep compatibility with Python 2
- wheel tester fails, let us stop testing on python 2
 
 - share smart pointer issues, comparison and nullptr
 - 1715 crash is fixed
 - gallery tool issue with a jpeg file
 
 - PYSIDE-1710 problematic to keep compatibility with Python 2
 - Features
- documentation warnings
 - brushing up some opengl code
 - creating a libpysideqml
 - Continuing with the PyPy issues
 
 
18. November 2021
- Releases and Infra
- Issue with ubuntu 20.04 and libOpenGL.so.0 dependency seems to be in the pyside build and not Qt
 - Using more cores in the CI now :)
 - Apple Silicon story
- Issues with python provisioning on the CI
 
 - Research on the PyPy CI configuration
 - 6.2.2 release at the end of the month
 
 - Bugs
- Shared pointer comparison issue
 - Another shared pointer type related issue
 
 - Features
- QmlUncreatable decorator
 - Adding Quick3D module (issue with qml registration)
 - PyPy changes are getting closer to be fully working.
 
 
11. November 2021
- Releases and Infra
- Apple Silicon CI to be ready soon
 - Windows CI machines slowness to be addressed
 - To enable Python 3.10 in a CI configuration
 - Research about adding PyPy as a CI configuration
 
 - Bugs
- PYSIDE-1520 (related 1675) handling slots type hints
 
 - Features
- Standard containers
 - Properly handling sets between C++ and Python
 - Adding new QML references examples and new Decorators (still in research)
 - Planning restructuring of libpyside to not be qml dependant
 - Move to Python enum: Roadmap is fixed, tests started
 - PyPy, finding new things and discuss with the team.
- Improved the pending failing test by fixing a issue on PyCFunction (99 before, 76 to go)
 
 
 
4. November 2021
- Releases and Infra
- 5.15 commercial LTS problems were solved.
 - Apple Silicon wheels still in progress
- changing the way we provision Python on the CI
 
 - Directory structure for snapshot (internal) installation
 
 - Features
- default expr handling fixes
 - memory leak on the keyword arguments handling fixed
 - Default templates for containers in progress
 - PyPy changes in the progress, learning by doing.
- Finding new issues on both sides, getting in touch with pypy team
 
 
 - Bugs
- Issues with the latest MSVC2019 updates are fixed (typedefs)
 - Issues found related QSet and set/list transformation
 - PYSIDE-1670 singleShot -> single_shot function/property
 - Improving the signature module system
 - Enums of PySide are still in C++, but they could be moved to Python.
 
 
28. October 2021
- Releases and Infra
- CI is under maintenance
 - 6.2.1 released
 - Commercial LTS 5.15.7 to be released
- merge from lts to commercial
 
 
 - Features
- PYSIDE-535: PyPy compatibility, object lifecycles differences with CPython, managed to solve other errors. Removed lld regression. Currently solving Signal&Slots problems. Checking large patches for using pypy as a build target. Py_FromSpect implementation still missing.
 - Default function arguments qualifications in progress
 - PYSIDE-1666 Container Templates for shiboken
 
 - Bugs
- PYSIDE-1669: addPixmap str arguments
 - PYSIDE-1675: mypy compatibility, improvement on the error messages for generic types.
 - PYSIDE-1670: __feature__: handle properties with function overloads
 - PYSIDE-1431: equality check of some signal/instances fails
 - PYSIDE-1695: Flags comparison issue
 - PYSIDE-1697: Memory leak
 
 
21. October 2021
- General
- QtWS Talk: Hybrid Qt Development: boosting your projects with Python https://www.qt.io/qtws21
 
 - Infra & Releases
- 6.2.1 release is coming
 - universal wheels might come in later versions.
 - Discussion on incremental wheels to install more things on site-packages/PySide6
 - Performance issues on the CI were fixed
 
 - Bugs
- PYSIDE-1691 Adding Cbor
 - Complementation for Opaque Containers
 
 - Features
- PyPy compatibility work continues
 - MyPy compatibility work continues
 - Add bluetooth scanner example
 
 
14. October 2021
- General
- Bug fixing week
 - New contributors from Hacktoberfest
 
 - Infra & Releases
- 6.2.1 release is approaching
 - We need to setup a new provisioning for Apple Silicon wheels.
 - Splitting wheels research.
 
 - Bugs
- PYSIDE-1685 Font families
 - Addressing flaky tests
 - PYSIDE-656 raising exceptions related to mouse events
 - PYSIDE-1669 QIcon.addPixmap issue with argument 'str'
 
 - Features
- Implicit conversion in Shiboken
- Get list of invalid usages from wrappers
 - From 6.3/6.4 enable the option.
 
 - Render control example
 - PyPy compatibility work continues
 - Improve mypy compatibility will continue
 
 - Implicit conversion in Shiboken
 
07. October 2021
- General
- Blog post published https://www.qt.io/blog/qt-for-python-release-6.2
 - Progress regarding a better cross compilation story
 - Apple Silicon wheels needs some testing
 - PyPi wheel size issue due to macOS wheels having Universal Binaries and new modules
- Thinking on how to generate wheels for intel and apple silicon without them being too large.
 - Maybe split the wheels into essential modules
 - Maybe create dependencies groups
 
 - 2 more weeks until we move to use Qt dev on the CI
 
 - Release and Infra
- COIN updates and some speed issues.
 - Making bug-fix releases from LTS soon to follow the KDE Qt Free Software agreement.
 
 - Features
- Signal & Slot tutorial to be available in 6.2.1, and hopefully more tutorials
 - Refactoring and cleanup on the primitive types.
 - Fixing PYSIDE-1673 and PYSIDE-1664
 - Add qml reference example
 - PYSIDE-535 PyPy development still continues
 - PYSIDE-656 old issue found, that's related to PyPy development.
 
 - Bugs
- Signals are missing from the Class documentation in 6.2.1
 
 
30. September 2021
- Release and Infra
- We expect a release on time with respect to Qt
 - Release blog post almost ready
 - M1 wheels are still in progress.
 
 - Features
- Add section to https://wiki.qt.io/New_Features_in_Qt_6.2 to highlight features
 - built-in types included into shiboken
 - adding wstring support in shiboken, extending limited api a bit.
 - Integrating PyPy related changes that don't affect Python functionality
 
 - Bugs
- changelog tool using textwrap for better formatting
 - adapting examples and other minor revisions.
 - Working on Nuitka testing
 
 
23. September 2021
- Release and Infra
- Preparation for 6.2
 
 - Features
- PyPy compatibility is still in progress due to unexpected complications.
 - WebChannel module is in plus the markdowneditor example
 - Built-in types improvements in shiboken
 - Cleaning the old suppress messages from the build
 - Examples and tutorials were added.
 
 - Bugs
- QSurfaceDataArray issue when handling copies
 
 
16. September 2021
- Release & Infra
- Mostly focusing on having 6.2 on time
 
 - Bugs
- 1659 QUiLoader issue with connecting signals based on strings.
 - 1660 Taking care of native C++ and Python types in the typesystem
 
 - Features
- Opaque containers improved
 - SbkObjectType was removed, and an alias was left to PyObjectType
 - PyPy Support: heavy refactoring required for compatibility. Rewrites, and many other fixes.
- Inheritance seems to be the more problematic bit at the moment (__new__)
 
 
 
09. September 2021
- Releases & Infra
- Commercial LTS 5.15.6 was released yesterday.
 - 6.1.3 is already out.
 - Some progress on the M1 wheels
 
 - Bugs
- CoAP issue made us discover other flaws in shiboken that are fixed.
 - Sanitizing options needs more research.
 
 - Features
- Updates to the docs before 6.2
 - Opaque containers still in progress
 - Adding new API to be compatible with PyCallable (QThreadPool)
 - Progress on the PyPy compatibility effort
 - Moving away from distutils to setuptools
 
 
02. September 2021
- Releases & Infra
- Commercial LTS 5.15.6 should be out soon
 - 6.1.3 should be ready today/tomorrow
 - starting migration from distutils to setuptools.
 
 - Bugs
- OpenGL types issues working with macOS now (to test further examples)
 - Triaging
 - Shiboken issues when snippets and function collection with same names (QCoapClient::disconnect and QObject::disconnect)
 - PYSIDE-1646 signature mapping issues with OpenGL types
 
 - Features
- PYSIDE-1650 QAccesibility missing API
 - Continue research on opaque containers
 - PYSIDE-1436 Continue fixing things towards a full 3.10 compatibility (fixing refcounts)
 - PYSIDE-535 PyPy compatibility still in progress (many bugs to be tackled)
 
 
26. August 2021
- Releases
- Commercial 5.15.6 LTS is being prepared.
 - 6.1.3 might be delay a couple of days due to a couple of high prio bugs that were fixed.
 
 - Bugs
- Fixing the OpenGL issues of missing GL* types
 - Removing QtQuick classes that were blocking the CI
 - Addressing errors on debug mode.
 
 - Features
- Planning fixes for Nuitka to get a better support.
 
 
19. August 2021
- Bugs
- Various fixes in four patches for Python 3.10
 - Bug from 2012 found in shiboken tests after three days debugging Python 3.10
 
 - Features
- Python 3.10 support is totally ready
 
 
12. August 2021
- Infra & Releases
- Maintenance break
 - Still looking into universal binary wheels (some tests failing)
 - Preparing new releases.
 
 - Bugs
- Threading/lock issues with QInputDialog and QAbstractSocket
 - Stripping down shiboken installation files
 
 - Features
- Moving important new patches from dev to 6.1 (tricky due the changes we have in dev atm)
 - Continuing the test of 3.10
 - Addressing new pyi issues
 
 
5. August 2021
- Infra & Releases
- Debug CI builds are still in progress.
 
 - Bugs
- PYSIDE-1626 uic switching new minor problem with qApp.
 - PYSIDE-1617 memory leaks
 - New missing information in some .pyi files
 - QInputDialog seems to be failing with threads
 
 - Features
- Cleanups related to cheating macros Py Int/Long checks.
 - reconstruction of the features for future work
 
 
29. July 2021
- Infra & Releases
- Universal binaries still in research
 - Some errors were found on the CI debug configuration
 - COIN has some network issues.
 
 - Bugs
- Refactoring and small issues.
 - feature: fix the UIC switching problem
 - Documentation seems outdated in some places, so fix are coming.
 
 - Features
- https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-1605
 - Removing signature loader files to integrate them into the module.
 
 
22. July 2021
- Infrastructure
- Work on OSX11/universal binaries
 
 - Bugs
- https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-1629 QML crash
 - Debugging https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-1626 (snakecase + uic)
 - https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-1625 exec_ regression
 - https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-1623 missing docs
 - https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-1621 Windows problem fixed by removing temp files
 - Debugging memory leaks
 
 - Features
- Research on https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-1605 (directly wrapping C++ containers instead of converting them)
 - Prototype/Discuss: Remove signature loader completely from physical FS (6.2 I guess)
 
 - Other
- Fixed up documentation for 6.2
 - Fixed overload handling in shiboken due to https://codereview.qt-project.org/c/qt/qtbase/+/359671
 
 
15. July 2021
- Infra & Releases
- CI has some issues related to qtbase and Windows
 
 - Bugs
- https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-535 Issues when transforming Macros to Functions, leaks were found
 - Fix memory leaks in shiboken
 - QMultiMap and QMultiHash was not properly handle (defaultdict) | behavioral change
- Before it was a a normal dict, with the last value (all the other values were not preserved)
 
 
 - Features
- https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-1252 support classmethods in signatures and properties (static methods become properties, and that's the relation with classmethods)
 - Adding QtDBus (QPendingReply is missing) and QtNetworkAuth modules
 - Tools like qdbusxml2cpp is not supported yet.
 - Remote Objects getting some contributions.
 - Refreshing QML code and good practices, adding new examples, etc
 - WIP qmlRegisterSingletonInstance and research on QML_NAMED_ELEMENT
 - Improve docs: icons, style, content.
 
 
08. July 2021
- Infra & Releases
- Planning next releases.
 
 - Bugs
- 1334 .connect returns now a bool to verify the connection.
 - 1613 logging level
 - 1618 session manager issue (Qt bug)
 - 1619 discussion on accepting the QSettings.value (still in progress)
 
 - Features
- lupdate now has support for Python, and will be available in 6.2 (+ docs)
 - adding new API for WebEngine
 - gettext tutorial
 - pathlib support continues (QUrl)
 - PyPy compatibility: still addressing the issues related to the type extensions.
 - ApiExtractor: add classmethod attribute to add-function for tr()
 - Attempting to expose QtDBus
 - Improving docs and tutorials
 - Experimenting with python-only modules.
 
 
01. July 2021
- Infra & Releases
- 6.1.2 ready to go out
 - Trying CI debug configuration
 
 - Bugs
- Documentation broken links, and improve Designer tutorials.
 - PYSIDE-1609 findChild fixed
 - PYSIDE-1370 QSharedMemory fixed
 - PYSIDE-131 Translations issues fixed (with the problem that we don't have lupdate support on PySide6)
 - QtSensors issues on the CI due to update solved.
 
 - Features
- PYSIDE-535 PyPy Support still on going.
 - Adding more missing classes.
 - Analysing deployment scenario for PySide applications.
 
 
24. June 2021
- Feedback from Akademy 2021 sessions
- Tutorials on the Designer process, and other process that might be simple for Qt users, but unknown for Python users.
 - More examples on the QML - Python interaction.
 - Improve documentation
 - Qt Creator support
 - Template tool
 
 - Release and Infra
- 6.1.2 coming next week.
 
 - Bugs
- PYSIDE-131 in progress, related to translation with automatic language tools.
 
 - Features
- Trying to address issues related to PyPy (type declaration, and extension structure)
 - Add new qml functions (update missing binding)
 - Multimedia changes
 - WebEngine is partially in the repo.
 
 
17. June 2021
- Release and Infra
- Commercial LTS release 5.15.5
 - New Debug VM setup ready to test
 - Testing new architecture to handle universal binaries on M1 machines
 
 - Bugs
- PYSIDE-1599 Issue with .pyi files on the CI (to test them) is now fixed, considering wrong signatures that we had and didn't detect.
 - Seems like there is something going on with the --quiet options and log levels.
 - Cleaning old bugs that were invalid
 
 - Feature
- Qt6 API adaption
 - There are some corner cases with pathlib that need to be documented and fixed.
 - Changes to rely on qtpath instead of qmake (from qt6 changes)
 - Testing aarch64 and M1 builds
 
 
10. June 2021
- Release and Infra
- Commercial LTS release 5.15.5 rescheduled for next week.
 - Trying to build 6.2, figuring differences between CentOS and RH (ldd issues)
 - Discussion to improve commercial offering installation.
 
 - Bugs
- https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-1593 pyi issue (and improvement too)
 - Fixing issues related to --/++ operators
 
 - Features
- https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-1499 pathlib support (ready for review)
 - Adding many missing classes, enums, etc.
 - Adapting QtMultimedia new module and API
 - Discussion on Handling native interfaces.
 
 - Events
- Akademy participation (external talk)
 - Qt Contributor Summit https://wiki.qt.io/Qt_Contributors_Summit_2021_-_Program
 
 
03. June 2021
- Release and Infra
- Qt 6.1.1 scheduled for Friday (might be release next week)
 - Commercial LTS 5.15.5 scheduled for the 10th.
 - Research on M1 build on the CI
- Locally it works: https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-1535
 - Wheels might be affect (universal binaries are too large)
 
 - Debug build on Windows to be tested.
 - The possibility of releasing Docker images is being addressed
 
 - Bugs
- Smaller bugs (PYSIDE-1584, PYSIDE-1585 not reproduceable)
 - Discussion finished https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-1567
 - Issues with XML interface to Python https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-1588
 - Class properties fix and refined code.
 - Multi-inheritance still in progress.
 
 - Features
- Small cleanups and fixes
 - Added more API (PYSIDE-1586) for qtbase for starters
 - Working on native interfaces (PYSIDE-1568)
 - pathlib support https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-1499
- File system paths in Qt are supported
 
 - Discussion on new repo structure.
 
 
27. May 2021
- Release and Infra
- 5.15.5 LTS (Commercial only) release planned.
 - 6.1.1 to be release soon.
 - Debug build on Windows (using python_d.exe and pass '--debug' when building, and remove the '--limited-api=yes')
 - Research: M1 build CI testing
 
 - Features
- Improvements to the general pyi generator, and features.
 - pathlib compatibility still in progress
 - Shiboken documentation: unused code
 
 - Bugs
- Multiple inheritance issues, when using explicit and implicit calls to parent constructors (super() vs Class)
 - https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-1563 (QImage related)
 - https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-1573 (QML related)
 
 - Changelog policy
- [Changelog] This class will act like..., to be used for important changes.
 
 - Research
- performance tests
 - Tool: report new classes per Qt versions.
 - Missing Qt API
 - new structure cmake/build
 
 
20. May 2021
- 6.2 considerations (checking on newly added modules, examples, tests)
 - Added textedit example
 - Features
- PYSIDE-1415 Make `generate_pyi.py` usable for any binding - checked in
 - PYSIDE-1019 __feature__: Support generation of modified .pyi files - done, needs cleanup
 
 - Bugs
- PYSIDE-1564 QObject does not support cooperative multiple inheritance
- working patch written but wrong, the problem is much harder since we need to call __init__ along the MRO and handle keyword args.
 
 - PYSIDE-229 Signal disconnect fails in multiple inheritance situation
- postponed until the above problem is solved since it voids all debugging done
 
 
 - PYSIDE-1564 QObject does not support cooperative multiple inheritance
 
13. May 2021
- No meeting due to holiday
 - Bugs
- PYSIDE-1566 Designer plugins don't work on macOS - solved & checked in
 - PYSIDE-1564 QObject does not support cooperative multiple inheritance
- Problem isolated, in progress (needs quite some change)
 
 - - Signal's connect/disconnect issues in progress.
 
 - Features
- generic generate_pyi.py - https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-1415 waiting for check-in
 - - PYSIDE-1436 Support Python 3.10 - some progress
 - - pathlib in progress - https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-1499
 - - PyPy compatibility stalled - https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-535
 
 
06. May 2021
- Infra & Release
- 6.1 postponed for next Thursday
- Reverting NumPy integration (made it experimental feature, due to problem with shared library)
 - Qt Designer Plugin (not compatible with Limited API)
 - Update changelog
 - Cherry pick exec related changes.
 - oss/6.1 tqtc/6.1 (to be created)
 
 
 - 6.1 postponed for next Thursday
 - Bugs
- PYSIDE-1404 improvements
 - Property docs - https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-1513
 - __feature__ at the end - https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-1548
 - Signal's connect/disconnect issues in progress.
 
 - Features
- generic generate_pyi.py - https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-1415
 - pathlib in progress - https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-1499
 - PyPy compatibility in progress - https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-535
 - Discussion on keyword-support arguments in shiboken - https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-1555
 - Possible adoption of "/" in signatures.
 
 
29. April 2021
- Infra & Release
- Expected 6.0.4, 6.1, and 5.15.4(LTS) for next week.
 - Creating 6.1 soon
- Enable macOS testing
 - Property documentation
 - Adding glibc version to linux wheel
 
 
 - Bugs
- Fixing documentation issues
 - https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-1425
 - New discoveries with https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-229 not so simple (memory related)
 - https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-1264 still pending.
 
 - Features
- Refactoring in general (import *) stuff.
 - Cleaning and updating tests and examples
 - Discussion on https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-1380
 
 
22. April 2021
- Infra & Release
- 6.0.4 release was postponed, but we are on time.
 - 6.1 is on track.
- wheel name to support more than 1 binary for linux.
 
 - Starting to try the new CI macOS machines.
 
 - Bugs
 - Features
- Numpy QtChart compatibility
 - PyPy compatibility https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-535
 - Looking into other module compatibilities
 - Improve documentation for Property use in QML
 - Improve the generate_pyi script
 
 
15. April 2021
- Infrastructure
- Setting on track the content of OSS and commercial wheels.
 - Qt addons distribution will change in 6.1 and 6.2, so we need to keep an eye on that.
 - New macOS machines for the CI
 
 - Documentation update process to be improved.
 - Bugs
- There were some problems with the default encoding and the doc build process (python version related)
 - 1529 fixed, and other issues (QPointF), 1514 QPainter, 1503 QCharts.
 
 - Features
- Improving examples to use new features and refreshing the code base.
 - Performance examples to compare C++ and Python
 - Reformatting some code base to use f-strings and warning
 - New tutorials in progress based on Model View
 - Internal Qt Hackathon
- Focused on integration with matplotlib (Performance discussion)
 - Scripting C++ applications.
 
 
 
08. April 2021
- No meeting
 
01. April 2021
- Deployment story
- Add new test for Nuitka (on macOS)
 - Update the tutorials, since PyInstaller and cx_Freeze seems to be partially working on Qt6.
 - Higher versions from macOS are more restrictive for the bundles that are generated. This leads to new breakage.
 
 - Preparation for 6.0.3 release
 - Bug
- PYSIDE-1523 Nuitka compile methods/functions is done
 - PYSIDE-1338 Hiding confusing feature frame entries
 - Wheel Tester to be improved.
 
 - Features
- pathlib features still in progress.
 - Porting more examples to snake_case
 - Check snippets_translator tool.
 - Make generate_pyi as a generic tool to be merged.
 
 
25. March 2021
- Infra
- Evaluation to change the wheel names to specify glibc version for 6.1
 - CI issues still with macOS
 
 - Features
- Refactoring examples (snake_case)
 - Updating deployment docs.
 - PYSIDE-1523 Nuitka, support for compiled functions.
 - PYSIDE-1415 make the generate_pyi more general
 - PYSIDE-1449 pathlib compatibility
 - Improvements on the documentation, tutorials, and examples.
 - Enabling snippet translator into the doc building process.
 
 - Bugs
- Fix crash from the new Network components.
 - Triage and some other fixes.
 - PYSIDE-1502 Compiling pyside2 with build target does not result in PySide2 `support` module being installed
 - PYSIDE-1524 warning related to sprintf
 - PYSIDE-1019 1038 hidden imports, properties, other fixes.
 - There seems to be some problems with PyInstaller on macOS
 
 
18. March 2021
- Infra
- CI has been showing some issues. 12h timeouts for macOS.
 - Soon to have 6.1 branch
 - Synchronization of the commercial repository with latest Qt.
 
 - Features
- Improving commercial tools.
 - Finding issues and getting ideas to improve the docs.
 - Using new qttools directory
 - Add option to not copy qt tools to the wheel when building.
 - pathlib compatibility patch still on-going
 - improvements to the documentation, adding 'doc' directory to each example.
 
 - Bugs
- OpenGLFunctions issues (mailing list announcement)
 - PYSIDE-1520 Union types
 - PYSIDE-1514 Shiboken module movement patches had some issues, which will be fixed
 - PYSIDE-1502 Working on improving the __feature__ option to make them safer in diff installation errors.
 - PYSIDE-1019 feature import problem (found in PYSIDE-1338) waiting for review
 
 
11. March 2021
- Infra
- 6.0.2 is out
 - 5.15.3 still pending
 - Trying to update dependencies for 6.1 (modules)
 - auditwheel (research, optional)
 - COIN seems to be acting weird, but generally.
 
 - Features
- cleanup snippets and general things in shiboken
 - license changes for LTS
 - Adding clarifications to the docs.
 - Discussion on the proper build processes.
 
 - Bugs
- 1438 Visualization issue
 - https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-1516
 - https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-1514 shiboken renaming causes an issue for copying files to the wheel.
 - Show the __feature__ issues on the traceback.
 
 
5. March 2021
- General Topics
- 6.0.2 release preparations
- Final fix for license checking instructions
 - OSS RC1 wheels should be available for testing later today
 - Merge from pyside-setup/6.0 into tqtc-pyside-setup/6.0 is pending that final fix
 
 - Bugs
- PYSIDE-1438 Crash in Qt DataVisualisation adressed
 - Bug triage, moved several bugs over to Qt
 
 - Features
- Cleanup and improvement of injected code snippets in PySide6
 - Improvements in error handling
 
 
 - 6.0.2 release preparations
 
25. February 2021
- General Topics
- Commercial 5.15.3 release next week.
 - 6.0.2 release next week.
 
 - Infra updates
- Keep an eye on the next Python releases.
 
 - Features
- Documentation for the designer plugin
 - shiboken: c++ using directive
 - pathlib compatibility support discussion (initial implementation was discarded)
- Trying to discover all the methods that are related to paths.
 
 
 - Bugs
- cx_Freeze issues in 6.0.0/1
 
 
18. February 2021
- General Topics
- Commercial LTS 5.15.3 release.
 - DeveloperWeek conference talk by Corey: will mention Qt for Python.
 
 - Infra Update
- TBD: Need of a new branch in qt5.git for the lts qt for python release.
 
 - Features
- pathlib.Path (soon to be ready) and fspath support (difficult) in pyside
 - __feature__ documentation
 - Designer patches are done (we still need docs)
 - documentation generation fixes.
 - shiboken: general refactoring (constructors)
 - doc: examples code in tabs
 - doc: new ideas for tutorials and vocabulary.
 
 
11. February 2021
- General topics
- Issues with Pick-to: 5.15
 - Discussion about the usage of pathlib
 - Reduce linux wheel size by not including .debug files.
 
 - Infra update
- Timeouts in RHEL
 - Preparing addons for 6.1
 
 - Bugs
- Fixing many issues related to sphinx, and documentation in general.
 
 - Features
- Moving the internal shiboken6.shiboken6.Shiboken to shiboken6.Shiboken 1497
 - Will be finish today (Documentation about the __feature__ options) PYSIDE-1481
 - (in progress) https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-1019 usage of constructor properties when enabling true_property
 - Migration to pathlib in our code, and add support for fspath in our API, https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-1499
 - Examples gallery embedded into the doc building process.
 - Designer patch ready for review.
 - Commercial tools on-going (icons discussion)
 - (in progress) Error handling in shiboken
 
 
4. February 2021
- General topics
- 6.0.1 release is on its way (the wheels will include the Qt3D modules and the ImageFormat plugins, which were missing in 6.0.0)
 - Changelog structure in Qt vs what we have now
 - Zombie 5.15 patches to be re-generated or cherry-picked to lts-5.15
 
 - Infra update
- Maintenance update went better.
 - COIN update is coming next week.
 
 - Bugs
- (almost done) Shiboken internal namespace renaming.
 - (done) https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-1476
 - (done) https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-1478
 - (done) https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-1487
 - (in progress) https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-1481
 
 - Features
- M2M Protocols modules rebase
 - Shiboken UI rebase
 - Custom Widget designer compatibility
 - Snippet converter tool
 
 
28. January 2021
- Infra update
- 'dev' we are missing tests on macOS (in progress). Qt5 bin on macOS 11, and running test on 10.15/13
 - trying to build pyside on a custom Qt (with plugins/addons) oss and commercial
 
 - Bugs
- Due to the shiboken module naming issue
- (in progress) https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-1481 __feature__ documentation
 - (in progress) https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-1476 PySide Property declaration creates properties with the setter name of the function
 - (in progress) https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-1347 constructors info in the stubs (other issues appeared)
 - All the future fix related to stubs rely on the change
 - there might be some issues with relying only on the install dir and not build.
 
 
 - Due to the shiboken module naming issue
 - Features
- refactoring shiboken
 - statmachine module rebirth
 - designer patches to include custom widgets.
 - enabling clang_options on shiboken
 
 - Branching story
- lts-5.15 issues
- Fix pyside-setup/5.15 and do all the merges (done)
 - Merge pyside-setup/5.15 into tqtc-pyside-setup/5.15 (done)
 - Create tqtc-pyside-setup/lts-5.15 from pyside-setup/5.15
 - Close pyside-setup/5.15 Make the Pick-to bot merge from Pick-to: 5.15 -> tqtc/lts-5.15
 
 - tqtc
- create tqtc/dev from oss/dev
 - move manually the patches that added things for the commercial offering into tqtc/dev (shiboken ui, m2m protocols modules)
 
 - Process to fix bugs
- push to oss/dev Pickt-to: 5.15 (this will go to lts-5.15)
 - before release we push oss/dev to tqtc/dev
 
 
 - lts-5.15 issues
 
21. January 2021
- Infra update
- 'dev' branch seems to be the only broken (maybe 5.15)
 - Provisioning is affected
 - need to create lts-5.15 branch for commercial releases
 - WinRT is broken (at a Qt/CI level)
 
 - Bug fixes
- https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-1458 Discussion about macOS symlinks
 - (in progress) https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-1481 __feature__ documentation
 - (in progress) https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-1476 PySide Property declaration creates properties with the setter name of the function
 - (in progress) https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-1347 constructors info in the stubs (other issues appeared)
 
 - Features
- Rename internal shiboken import: 'from shiboken6 import shiboken6 as Shiboken' -> 'from shiboken6 import Shiboken'
- Both options in 6.1,
 - Only 'from shiboken6 import Shiboken' from 6.2 on.
 
 - Designer plugin: set environment in the launcher script (instead of the rpath option)
 - Removing extra QtCharts namespace (it  was removed in Qt) -> QtDataVisualization?
- Externals helping the migration process.
 
 - https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-1477 clang options for shiboken cross build
 
 - Rename internal shiboken import: 'from shiboken6 import shiboken6 as Shiboken' -> 'from shiboken6 import Shiboken'
 - Starting work on new tutorials and applications (Data Science and visualization)
 
14. January 2021
- Qt Bug fixing week
 - Infra update
- Missing 5.15 merge to tqtc
 
 - Bug fixes
 - Features
- Contacting people at other IDEs groups to provide a better PySide support. (to create a user story)
 - NumPy support to accept numpy.array as 'some' Qt types
 - Designer plugin works continues (needs libshiboken) https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-1455
 
 - Webinar ideas
- __feature__ and Python properties
 - Interaction with other modules
 
 
7. January 2021
- Infra update
- libclang install fixes (issues related to 6.0 and 10.0)
- from the MSVC update, we require 10.0 for 5.15 and 6.0
 
 
 - libclang install fixes (issues related to 6.0 and 10.0)
 - Bug fixes
- PYSIDE-1447 qapp flag
 - PYSIDE-1463 snake_case init issue
 - PYSIDE-1470 shiboken delete qapp
 - PYSIDE-79 reopened due to a leak introduced by the fix to PYSIDE-68
 
 - Features
- Possible research PYSIDE-163
 - Refactoring shiboken
 - PYSIDE-1455 designer plugin
 - Snippets translators
 - Deployment story for PySide6