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Revision as of 08:02, 20 May 2021
2021
20. May 2021
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