Qt Contributor Summit 2024 - Program

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Current draft program

Thursday, September 5th

Morning: Keynote Sessions

Afternoon: Breakout rooms

Evening: Dinner!

Friday, September 6th

Morning: Keynote Sessions

Afternoon: Breakout rooms

Thursday, Sep 5th
Time (CEST)	Room 12+13
08:30 - 09:00	Registrations, Welcoming, Coffee
09:00 - 11:00	Keynotes State of the Qt Project Opportunities and Challenges after Qt 6.8 User perspective: developing and maintaining projects on top of Qt 6
11:00 - 12:00	Session pitching
Time (CEST)	Room 12+13	Room 11	Room 10	Common area
12:00 - 13:00	Lunch
13:00 - 13:45	Whither QProperty?	Qt Documentation	Qt on Windows: Windows 11 Style and Recent Developments
13:45 - 14:30	std::format support in Qt	What's new in QtGraphs	How to hate QML	AI tooling for Qt developers
14:30 - 15:00	Coffee break
15:00 - 15:45	Error handling in Qt (and C++)	FFmpeg in Qt Multimedia	Qt for Python	Wayland protocols for Qt
15:45 - 16:30	C++26 Reflection and Qt	Qt Lottie: Where it is, where to go
16:30 - 17:00	Summary of Day 1
17:00 - 18:30	Unplanned time
18:30 - ...	Dinner at the Event Venue

Friday, Sep 6th
Time (CEST)	Room 12+13
08:30 - 09:00	Welcome back and Coffee
09:00 - 12:00	Keynotes Cyber-Security and implications on the Qt Project (SBOM and 3rd party code, account and privilege life cycle) Breaking the monolith API design and Header review is everyone's problem
Time (CEST)	Room 12+13	Room 11	Room 10	Common Area
12:00 - 13:00	Lunch
13:00 - 13:45	Quo Vadis, TTLOFIR?	Qt Creator meets Lua	QtScrypt/QtPythonScripting	Compile once. Run everywhere
13:45 - 14:30	Deprecation vs Compatibility	Vector Graphics in Qt	QML Next - Qt Quick UI with non-C++ languages	TaskTree '24
14:30 - 15:00	Coffee break
15:00 - 15:45	Flaky tests	QFuture/QPromise: ’sup?	Future of QtLanguageServer repo / Proper CI for non-mainline repos?
15:45 - 16:30	Summary of Day 2 and Closing of Qt CS 2024

Table of session details

Topic	Speaker	Format	Summary
Topic Title	Add Your Name(s)	Discussion/Presentation/Workshop/...	Add a short paragraph about the scope of the proposed talk.
Whither QProperty? Wither, perpetuate or evolve?	Fabian Kosmale	Discussion session	We've added bindable C++ properties in Qt 6 – and then mostly ignored them except for bug fixes. Let's recap why we've added it to begin with, collect how it's currently . Then, investigate why we (mostly) went nowhere with it and whether we we want to change that.
std::format support in Qt	Ivan Solovev	Discussion session	We've started to provide support for formatting Qt types using std::format, but we might need some more features from the standard in order to use std::format *inside* Qt. Let's try to discuss what we need from the standard and how can we achieve that.
Qt for Python	Friedemann Kleint	Discussion session	Discuss Qt for Python development and explore ways to enhance its interoperability with other Qt products through feedback, ideas, and constructive criticism.
QtScrypt/QtPythonScripting	Friedemann Kleint	Presentation + Discussion	Present a research project which has been under way providing a more light-weight way for Python bindings.
Deprecation vs Compatibility	Eddy Welbourne Alex Blasche	Discussion session	Follow up on Peppe, Andre' and others discussing SC/BC and the impact of deprecations on users.
What's new in QtGraphs	Tomi Korpipää	Presentation + Discussion	A look into what has changed between QtDataVisualization and QtGraphs, which will be out of TP in Qt 6.8. A short presentation followed by a discussion of where we can / should take it next.
Quo Vadis, TTLOFIR ?	Marc Mutz	Discussion	"Things to look out for in review" (https://wiki.qt.io/Things_To_Look_Out_For_In_Reviews) started as a low-entry-barrier way to collect guidelines surrounding code^Wgit-versioned contributions, to be distributed to "official" documents as time goes by. While I believe it had a positive impact on many Qt contributors already in the present form, I still see (too) many of the issues, discussed there, in approved code, suggesting that it may be time to migrate some of the content to said "official" format (QUIP? Qt Coding Standard (no, not the whitespace formatting guideline that currently carries the name)). Also, the number of contributions to TTLOFIR from others than myself remains relatively small (with an explicit shout-out to those who did contribute!). Seeing as the number of Qt contributors only continues to grow (itself a very healthy sign), I think the project is facing a bit of "didn't know; if known, didn't read; if read; didn't understand; if understood, didn't apply" going on. So this session is both to spread awareness, as well as discuss how the process to migrate TTLOFIR items to a more "official" format could look like.
Future of QtLanguageServer repo / Proper CI for non-mainline repos?	QML Team	Discussion	The Qt Language Server repository contains an implementation of JSON RPC and skeleton functionality to implement a language server. It is a non-essential module, which led to https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/QTBUG-115252 , causing it's main user qmlls to not work. While this issue has been resolved, we should ponder a few questions: Do we really need a proper Qt module for it? Should JSON RPC move to QtBase? Would anything besides qmlls benefit from having generic language server support? Can we have "non-mainline" repos which still get the full gerrit+CI workflow (the main reason Qt Language Server became an official module)?
Error handling in Qt (and C++)	Volker Hilsheimer	Discussion	We have several ways of handling errors in Qt: fail with runtime warning, return false with errorString() getter, or emit errorOccurred() signals - often combinations of those. We don't throw exceptions, and we rarely return std::optional. C++23 has introduced std::expected as the vocabulary type for error handling, but we likely won't be able to require C++23 for several more years. Various alternatives that are (or have been) discussed in the C++ committee (such as throwing value-type exceptions) are decades out, if they ever get anywhere at all. However, we have had several attempts to implement something along the lines of std::expected, esp in cases where we needed better tools to handle errors from system API calls: QSystemResult for I/O: https://codereview.qt-project.org/c/qt/qtbase/+/546896 [1] In Qt Multimedia: https://codereview.qt-project.org/c/qt/qtbase/+/437291 To opt-out of QJniObject's overly aggressive exception-clearing: https://codereview.qt-project.org/c/qt/qtbase/+/511466 As pointed out in [1], C++17 compatible implementations of std::expected exist. Should we allow ourselves to use one of them internally? Can we have something that we can use in our own public API (e.g. for QJniObject)?
Qt Documentation	Nicholas Bennett, Paul Wicking	Presentation and Discussion	Qt Documentation State of the Union How do I contribute? Where do I find the documentation I need? How do I give feedback? QDoc The recommended way to use this today is via CMake. libclang version New features Future features Look at its great docs! How to make suggestions. Feedback from KDE moving to QDoc
C++26 Reflection and Qt	Thiago Macieira	Discussion	C++26 will come with the first release of reflection. It's probably not enough for Qt's needs to replace moc, but we should know what is missing so we can recommend to the committee our use-cases. We also need to know if there are any design issues that would make the replacement completely impossible.
Qt Lottie : Where it is, where to go	Kwanghyo Park	Presentation and Discussion	A brief introduction of the Qt Lottie module and presents the current status. Following up with a suggestions and discussions on how it could be improved and updated.
Flaky tests	Eddy	Discussion	Should blacklistings be temporary ? What policy should we apply to them ?
QFuture/QPromise: ’sup?	Kai Uwe Broulik	Discussion	QFuture capabilities have been much expanded in Qt 6, yet it’s not seeing much use within Qt itself. In the scope of Qt OPC UA, which is inherently asynchronous, we’re investigating the use of QFuture/QPromise to make the APIs more convenient. This discussion session is about setting standards for QFuture/QPromise-based APIs throughout Qt to ensure consistent naming and error handling before their use within Qt expands further.
Qt on Windows: Windows 11 Style and Recent Developments	Wladimir Leuschner	Presentation + Discussion	The native look of UI elements have changed their appearance starting with Windows 11. Since Qt 6.7 the UI changes were incoorperated into QtWidgets with a new QWindows11Style. This presentation will give a brief introduction into the style and about recent developments with a glimpse on what comes next for Qt on Windows.
Qt SBOM (Software Bill of Materials)	Alexandru Croitor	Presentation	Incoming EU legislation is influencing companies to provide a Software Bill of Materials for their products. Qt will start offering one starting with Qt 6.8. This will be a short presentation about what an SBOM is, and what Qt maintainers will have to be aware of to ensure it is up-to-date. EDIT: No separate slot needed.
Compile once. Run everywhere	Cristian Adam	Presentation + Discussion	Deploying of C++ applications on Windows, Linux, macOS for x86_64 and arm64 can be challenging. By using Cosmopolitan Libc we could have an alternative.
Qt Creator meets Lua	Marcus Tillmanns	Presentation	Writing Extensions for Qt Creator gets more convenient using Lua scripting.
FFmpeg in Qt Multimedia	Jøger Hansegård, Artem Dyomin, Maycon Stamboroski	Presentation + Discussion	Qt Multimedia is replacing native media backends with a backend based on FFmpeg. We will discuss why and how this affects contributors and users.
QML Next - Qt Quick UI with non-C++ languages	Vladimir Minenko	Presentation + Discussion	There are a few prototypes and concepts for combining Qt Quick UI with backends written in other, non-C++ languages. Lets have a look what that and where it could or "should" go
How to hate QML	Ulf Hermann	Presentation + Discussion	There are lots of people who don't like QML, albeit most of them for the wrong reasons. We're going to turn the tables this time. I'm going to hate on QML the Right Way™ and you're going to convince me of its merits. This will either result in a constructive debate on how to improve the language or in an idea what a new language to replace QML could look like.
AI tooling for Qt developers	Daniel Smith	Presentation + Discussion	LLMs can be a powerful tool for developers if utilized in a sensible way. I will briefly present a couple bots that have proven useful in trials, and want to hear more ideas for how LLMs could be put to work in our development ecosystem. I believe that if accurate enough, and only if they don't get in the way, LLM based bots can reduce wasted time and make working on Qt a better experience.
TaskTree '24	Jarek Kobus	Presentation + Discussion	TaskTree (https://wiki.qt.io/TaskTree) is a solution for automatic management of asynchronous tasks. It is used in many places inside QtCreator. The first non-Creator usage is AssetDownloader (shared among many Qt examples) for the upcoming Qt 6.8 release. The presentation shows in more details what this solution is about, how you may start using it and a short description about new task tree functionalities added recently.
Vector Graphics in Qt	Hatem ElKharashy	Discussion	There are many ways to render vector graphics in Qt. In the past few months, Qt Svg module has received some updates that add the most used features from SVG 1.1 standard. Moreover, a new QML component, VectorImage, has been under development that takes an SVG file and render it as part of QtQuick scene graph. Let's discuss those new features and talk about the possible new features that can improve them.
Wayland protocols for Qt	Tor Arne/David	Discussion	To what degree can we propose/adopt custom Wayland protocols that solve issues we're having with Qt/KDE, such as global window positioning, surface-less window geometry, etc