Qt Contributors Summit 2022 - Program

An appeal to record as many sessions as possible The Technical Product Management team in The Qt Company kindly asks to record as many sessions as possible. Unfortunately, there is a two-day workshop with another team on exactly the same days and no one from PM will be able to attend the live presentations. Last year, there were hesitations regarding recording. Please make it possible this year. If required recodings will be for internal use and will never be published for public access, and or if you decide so we can publish too.

Program

… to be discussed below.

Session times are still not fixed! Our Event Program is subjected to change.

We advise sessions to range between 30 minutes to 1hour.

We have 30-minute time slots. If you need 30 minutes for your session, book one slot. If you need 1 hour, book two slots.

Please assign a time slot to your session:

Tuesday June 7th,2022

Time (CEST)	Sessions
09:30 - 10:00	Welcome and Event Kickoff
10:00 - 11:00	Keynote with Lars Knoll
11:00 - 11:30	Topic Pitching and Agenda Refinement
11:30 - 12:00	Break
12:00 - 12:30	Free slot - Add your session here
12:30 - 13:00	Conan - a package manager for Qt?
13:00 - 13:30	QtPDF
13:30 - 14:00	Qt Quick Effect Maker
14:00 - 14:30	Qt for Python
14:30 - 15:00	qt-project.org
15:00 - 15:30	Ghost Maintainers
15:30 - 16:00	Coroutines in QtCore
16:00 - 16:30
16:30 - 17:00	The Qt Community

Wednesday June 8th, 2022

Time (CEST)	Sessions
07:50 - 08:00	Welcome Back
08:00 - 08:30	C++20 in Qt
08:30 - 09:00
09:00 - 09:30	Directions for QTestLib messages
09:30 - 10:00	How to create a great Qt tutorial video
10:00 - 10:30	What's new in QML (non-visual) tooling
10:30 - 11:00	Color space in Qt - issues and possibilities
11:00 - 11:30	Break
11:30 - 12:00
12:00 - 12:30	Qt Infrastructure for CI
12:30 - 13:00	Licenses in Source Code
13:00 - 13:30	Qt Design Studio: How to contribute
13:30 - 14:00	Qt Wayland state
14:00 - 14:30	QtScrypt
14:30 - 15:00	Free slot - Add your session here
15:00 - 15:30	Closing
15:30 - 16:00

Sessions

Please add to the table below what you would like to see in our QTCS2022.

Topic: Add a clear title or question to illustrate your interest

Speaker: Add your name if you would like to be the speaker on such a topic

Format: Conference-style Presentation, Discussion, Workshop,... (add nomenclature you find missing)

Comments: add any additional comments you find relevant

Topic	Speaker	Moderator	Note Taker	Format	Comments
Example: How Can We Improve xxx?	J Doe	S SMith	A Müller	Discussion	We currently struggle with YYY and we want to find solutions for it. We should come up with an action plan.
Qt Infrastructure for CI	Tony Sarajärvi			Presentation/Discussion	A presentation where the hardware side of the CI is presented along with monitoring of the system
Licenses in Source Code	Jörg Bornemann			Presentation / Discussion (30 min)	Announcing SPDX changes, discussing next steps (qt_attribution.json file format)?
Ghost Maintainers	Andy Nichols, Paul Tvete, Eddy			Discussion	There are Qt modules that have maintainers who are largely absent, yet we have no formal process for handling this situation; and Maintainers != Gerrit's list.
How to create a great Qt tutorial video	H Humaljoki (facilitator)			Workshop	At the end of the workshop, we would have gathered best practices on how to create great video tutorials about Qt. The participants would know where to start in creating their own learning content.
What's new in QML (non-visual) tooling	QML team			Presentation/ Discussion	Learn about upcoming features in qmllint and the QML language server, and make feature requests/suggestions
Coroutines in QtCore	Giuseppe D'Angelo			In-depth technical Discussion	We have at several in-flight patches trying to add Coroutines to QtCore. I'd like a very long (ideally multi-slot) session to discuss and experiment with the API of such a thing, including adding coroutines support for QFuture ("heavy") coroutines directly to signals/slots ("not so heavy") coroutines + QThreadPool support misc.
QtScrypt	Cristián Maureira-Fredes			Presentation/ Discussion	Some time ago, I wrote a hackathon project to enable Python scripting within C++ applications - the outcome was cool :). Due to the similarities, I decided to call it QtScrypt, because it kind of follows a similar idea as QtScript, but with Python. I would like to present the proof of concept I have, and if it's interest from someone else to start the development and create a proper project out of this idea.
qt-project.org	Cristián Maureira-Fredes			Presentation/ Discussion	I had many ideas on how to improve our project website, but didn't manage to implement them. I'd like to present the current version of the code that generates our portal, the plots, and everything, mainly to look for people that will be willing to help improving the site! This is a good idea for first-time contributors to jump into a simple project where there is a lot to improve ;)
The Qt Community	Pedro Bessa			Presentation/ Discussion	As Qt's Community Manager, I plan to (re)introduce my role, my own approach and the plans to push the Community further. What does the Community Manager do? The Current State of the Qt Community The Qt Community Roadmap: Our Plan Forward
C++20 in Qt	Fabian Kosmale, Marc Mutz			Discussion	We already had some discussion about usage of C++20 types in our ABI (see https://lists.qt-project.org/pipermail/development/2022-January/042151.html). However, there are still further things that we should discuss: Are there non-ABI impacting changes that we should do? E.g. marking classes as views/ranges, supporting new std types where necessary, etc. How should our testing story look like for C++20? Currently, we only have one gcc build for C++20 in our CI Do we want to mandate C++20 during the lifetime of Qt 6 at some point? Can we (think of embedded platforms)? C++ modules and CMake? How will it impact us?
Qt for Python Discussion	Friedemann Kleint			Discussion	Discussion about future development in Qt for Python/Shiboken
Qt Design Studio: How to contribute	Thomas Hartmann			Presentation/ Discussion (30 min)	What is Qt Design Studio and how can developers contribute to the code base
Conan - a package manager for Qt?	Kai Köhne			Presentation/ Discussion (30 min)	State of the endeavour, discussion about future
Qt Quick Effect Maker	Kaj Grönholm			Presentation/ Discussion (30 min)	Introduction to Qt Quick Effect Maker (QQEM), a work-in-progress tool to boost productivity for creating custom Qt Quick shader effects. Some history about Qt Graphical Effects, MultiEffect etc. compared to QQEM and a live demo!
Qt Wayland state	Aleix Pol			Break-out session (not in main room) (30 min)	State of the issues, changes and challenges
Directions for QTestLib messages	Marc Mutz			Discussion (30 min)	Should QSKIP, QVERIFY2, etc. become printf-style to avoid formatting (asprintf(), arg()) entirely, or should they have QAnyStringView arguments to avoid all the toLocal8Bit().constData()? Can we have both?
QtPDF	Shawn Rutledge			Presentation/ Discussion	Quick overview of what has been done (a bit more since https://youtu.be/y6-Khqrrz_U), and discussion of what could be done if the community is interested in helping (annotations, XFA, ??) Future of QtPDF vs. poppler: let's emphasize that we don't necessarily want to displace poppler in the open-source world, but I wonder if there is a chance for synergy, by harmonizing APIs (QTBUG-77517). Perhaps can discuss the future of rendering if there's time (what if https://youtu.be/JTjJpXd7zNc had turned out a bit better: we could render PDF sub-elements directly in the SG).
Color space in Qt - issues and possibilities	Allan Sandfeld Jensen			Presentation/Discussion (30 min)	Quick overview of what the problem is with color space, gamma correction, WGC and HDR in painting. What users can currently do about in Qt, and a discussion about what we could do in the future with existing or new API.