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Developing Qt

The Qt Project is a meritocratic consensus-based community interested in Qt. Anyone who shares that interest can join the community, participate in its decision making processes, and contribute to Qt’s development.

This wiki holds guidelines and documentation regarding code contributions to Qt. For an overview over all different ways to contribute to the Qt Project, please take a look at our home page [qt.io].

Contributions

Things you generally need to know if you want to participate with code contributions.

• The Qt Governance Model
• Maintainers
• Qt Contribution Guidelines
• Contributing and Reviewing Code
• Commit Policy
• Reference Documentation
• Qt Framework
  • Submit_Policies
  • Release Management
• Qt Creator
  • Submit Policies
  • Releases, Roadmap, Branches
  • Plugins
• Creating New Modules or Tools for Qt
• QtWebKit [trac.webkit.org]

Coding Guidelines

Things you need to know before you start writing Qt code.

• Qt Framework Qt_Coding_Style and Coding Conventions
• Qt Creator Coding Style & Conventions [doc-snapshot.qt.io]
• API Design Principles
• Binary Compatibility Workarounds
• Branch Guidelines
• Qt Localization
• Qt in Namespace
• Transition from Qt 4.x to Qt5
• Creating a new module or tool for Qt
  • Project playground
  • Naming guidelines
  • Module repository structure

Tooling

Things you need to know before you submit your code.

• Setting up Gerrit
• Gerrit Introduction
• Gerrit Caveats and Hints
• Early Warning System

Tools to help development of your code.

• IDE debug helpers
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Quality Engineering

Things you need to know to ensure good code quality.

• Writing Unit Tests
• Qt Quality Gate Criteria
• Public Autotest Infrastructure
• New Unit Test Structure

Related Articles

• Git Installation
• Get the source
• Building Qt 5 from Git
• Developing and maintaining patches on top of Qt with Git

Community

• Qt Everywhere Calendar [google.com] (XML [google.com] – iCal [google.com])
• Who does what
• Marketing
• Qt Contributors Day
• Qt Contributors Summit 2011 Videos
• Qt on Raspberry Pi

Subcategories:

There are 25 subcategories for this category

• Guidelines
• Accessibility
• Bugs
• Documentation
• Gerrit
• Guidelines
• Instructions
• Lighthouse
• Locale
• Marketing
• Network
• Ports
  • Android
  • Tizen
    • Releases
• Printing
• QA
  • :CI
  • CI
• Qt Planning
  • Qt Public Roadmap
• Qt_5
• Qt_Internals
• Qt_Multimedia
• Qt_Multimedia_Planning
• Qt_Planning
  • Qt_Public_Roadmap
• Qt_Quick
• Qt_Script
• Symbian
• Triaging_Bugs
• Widgets

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• 5.0 Feature Targets===A===
• API Design Principles
• API Design Principles Russian===B===
• Binary_Compatibility_Workarounds
• Branch Guidelines
• Build Qt 5 for Tizen Emulator
• Build Qt for Tizen
• Building Qt Package
• Building_Necessitas_from_Source_on_Linux
• Building_Necessitas_from_Source_on_Linux_Bulgarian
• Building_Qt_Documentation
• Building_Qt_Documentation_Italian
• Building_Qt_Documentation_Japanese
• Building_Qt_Documentation_Korean
• Building_Qt_Documentation_Russian
• Building_Qt_Documentation_SimplifiedChinese
• Building_Qt_Documentation_Spanish
• Building_Qt_for_Symbian_3_Devices===C===
• CI_Autotest_Metadata
• CI_Configurations
• CI_Linux_Tester_Setup
• CI_Machine_Configuration
• CI_Machine_Setup_local_mirror
• CI_Mac_Tester_Setup
• CI_Network_Test_Server_Setup
• CI_Overview
• CI_Revdep
• CI_Windows_Tester_Setup
• Code_Reviews
• Coding Conventions
• Coding_Conventions_SimplifiedChinese
• Colors_and_Font_Guidelines
• Commit_Policy
• Commit_Policy_SimplifiedChinese
• Creating a new module or tool for Qt
• Creating a Qt5 Submodule
• Creating Hello World Application===D===
• Category:Developing_Qt -> Widgets===E===
• Early Warning System===G===
• Gerrit Caveats and Hints
• Gerrit Introduction
• Gerrit staging commands
• Getting_Started_With_Lighthouse
• Get_The_Source
• Get_The_Source_Bulgarian
• Get_The_Source_Japanese
• Git_Installation
• Git_Installation_Bulgarian
• GSoC Proposals===H===
• Hacking on Qts SSL Support
• How_many_Functions_in_Qt===I===
• IDE debug helpers
• Improve Qt Contribution Process
• Integrating_Qt_Examples_Italian
• Integrating_Qt_Examples_Russian
• Integrating_Qt_Examples_SimplifiedChinese
• Integrating_Qt_Examples_Spanish===L===
• Licensing talk about mobile platforms
• Lighthouse_Architecture
• Lighthouse_Architecture_Bulgarian
• Lighthouse_Issues===M===
• Merge Guidelines
• Model View Design Issues===N===
• Necessitas
• Necessitas_Bulgarian
• Necessitas_Japanese
• Necessitas_SimplifiedChinese
• New Unit Test Structure
• New_Signal_Slot_Syntax===P===
• Packaging Applications
• Phonon===Q===
• QObject Internals
• Qt 5
• Qt 5 Beta
• Qt 5 ICU
• Qt 5 QLocale
• Qt 5 QtPrint
• Qt Coding Style SimplifiedChinese
• Qt Contribution Guidelines
• Qt Creator for Tizen Analysis
• Qt for Tizen 1.0 Alpha 1
• Qt for Tizen 1.0 Alpha 2
• Qt for Tizen 1.0 Alpha 3
• Qt for Tizen 1.0 Alpha 4
• Qt for Tizen 1.0 Alpha 5
• Qt for Tizen 1.0 Alpha 6
• Qt for Tizen Contributors
• Qt for Tizen git workflow
• Qt for Tizen Introduction
• Qt for Tizen Media Partners
• Qt for Tizen Media Partners Requirements & Recommendations
• Qt for Tizen Release HOWTO
• Qt for Tizen Roadmap
• Qt for Tizen Source code
• Qt for Tizen Tasks
• Qt In Namespace
• Qt Localization
• Qt Printing
• Qt Quality Gate Criteria
• Qt Quick Controls for Tizen12>