Qt Contributors Summit 2019 Program

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Tuesday, 2019-11-19

First day is reserved for topics that are of interest to the majority, and main location is the Assembly Hall. If you have something to present please coordinate beforehand on IRC or via mail.

Time	Assembly Hall
8:00 - 9:00	Registration
9:00 - 9:20	Introduction and sponsors
9:20 - 10:30	Keynote: Towards Qt 6 (Lars Knoll)
10:30 - 11:00	Coffee Break
11:00 - 11:30	QML version 3
11:30 - 12:00	CMake Port
12:00 - 13:30	Lunch Break
13:30 - 14:00	Branch policy for Qt 6
14:00 - 14:30	Qt Marketplace
14:30 - 15:00	KDE experience in attracting and nurturing contributors
15:00 - 15:30	Coffee Break
15:30 - 16:00	Qt 6 Graphics Overview
16:00 - 16:30	Qt for Python
16:30 - 17:00	Agenda Overview

Wednesday, 2019-11-20

Time	Assembly Hall	1.3.14 (Zoo)	1.1.9 (Landsberger Allee)	1.1.8 (Greifwalder Str)
9:00 - 10:00		Qt Marketplace
10:00 - 11:00
11:00 - 12:00
12:00 - 13:00
13:00 - 14:00
14:00 - 15:00
16:00 - 17:00	Plenary Session

Thursday, 2019-11-21

Time	Assembly Hall	1.3.14 (Zoo)	1.1.9 (Landsberger Allee)	1.1.8 (Greifwalder Str)
9:00 - 10:00		Qt CMake Workshop
10:00 - 11:00
11:00 - 12:00
12:00 - 13:00
13:00 - 14:00
14:00 - 15:00	Plenary Session

Sessions

Qt Marketplace

Tino Pyssysalo and Marko Finnig

Qt Marketplace status, existing and planned features, launch schedule, content publishing process, and content usage.

Qt 6 Graphics Overview

Laszlo & co.

Let's have an overview of graphics related changes in Qt 6. The keynote will probably mention some of these, the goal in this session is to expand on them a bit. There can then be deeper individual discussions on specific topics during the next two days, if there is interest.

C++17 language and std library features for Qt 6

Volker Hilsheimer

With Qt 6 we want to be able to use some C++ 17 language and std library features. Not all compilers and platforms we are going to care about by the time Qt 6 comes around will support evertyhing, so this needs a balanced discussion of up- and down-sides, leading to a pragmatic subset that we can rely on. See https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/QTBUG-77477 for details.

Code Review: Sharing the load

Eddy

Sometimes we wait and wait for anyone to review our changes. Sometimes we struggle to keep up with all the reviews we're asked to look at. How can we organise this so that no-one waits too long but all of us still have time to hack on code ? Time To Be Arranged.

API Review Process

Volker Hilsheimer

As experienced during Qt 5.13 and Qt 5.14 releases, some changes to APIs were getting feedback only very late in the release process, when the header diff was uploaded for sanity review. This seems a bit late. I'd like to see if we can find a more effective way of integrating API reviews into the general code review process. Perhaps changes that change public headers require a slightly different process than fixes and changes that touch only the implementation.

Evolving the Qt Project Security Policy

Volker Hilsheimer

During summer, the Qt Project Security Policy was moved from a wiki page into [/quips-qt-io.herokuapp.com/quip-0015-Security-Policy.html QUIP-15], and during that review process, some changes and additions were proposed to strengthen the project's capability to respond to security issues. Those changes were not taken into the QUIP as part of the move, since for the moment we only wanted to move the content. Suggestions included a clearer statement how security fixes are applied to LTS releases; the integration of CVE handling when disclosing vulnerabilities; the documentation of processes established by the Qt Company; and a general review of the way the "core team of developers" is organized, and operating.

Discussing these (and additional) proposals, and agreeing on what should become part of the policy (and thus the responsibility of the Qt project) is the purpose of this session.