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== 2020 ==
==2021==
==== 14. May 2020 ====


* CI Updates
==== 16. September 2021 ====
** CI blocked due to some provisioning issues in red hat
** 5.14.2.2 Release is on hold
** 5.15 commercial release in preparation
** License check
* 5.15 Release
** Pickling changes
** Examples
** loadUiType
* Tutorials rcc, designer
** Add project's tutorial.
* Continue research of using Qt6
* __qualname__ attributes are almost done
** This changes was required for the pickling support.


==== 7. May 2020 ====
* Release & Infra
* CI Updates
** Mostly focusing on having 6.2 on time
** Issues with the provisioning, for example the connection with PyPi, still in progress.
* Bugs
** We will add a requirements.txt for provisioning.
** 1659 QUiLoader issue with connecting signals based on strings.
* Issues
** 1660 Taking care of native C++ and Python types in the typesystem
** PYSIDE-1255 Signal not reached in QML
* Features
** Pickling Qt Enums PYSIDE-15
** Opaque containers improved
*** Almost finished, but we are waiting for PYSIDE-1285 to be fix (modulename, qualname).
** SbkObjectType was removed, and an alias was left to PyObjectType
** Many other minor bugs have been fixed, but still there are a couple of strange ones.
** PyPy Support: heavy refactoring required for compatibility. Rewrites, and many other fixes.
** First attempts to build shiboken with Qt6
*** Inheritance seems to be the more problematic bit at the moment (__new__)
** Ideas repo re-organization
 
==== 09. September 2021 ====
 
* Releases & Infra
** Commercial LTS 5.15.6 was released yesterday.
** 6.1.3 is already out.
** Some progress on the M1 wheels
* Bugs
** CoAP issue made us discover other flaws in shiboken that are fixed.
** Sanitizing options needs more research.
* Features
** Updates to the docs before 6.2
** Opaque containers still in progress
** Adding new API to be compatible with PyCallable (QThreadPool)
** Progress on the PyPy compatibility effort
** Moving away from distutils to setuptools
 
==== 02. September 2021 ====
 
* Releases & Infra
** Commercial LTS 5.15.6 should be out soon
** 6.1.3 should be ready today/tomorrow
** starting migration from distutils to setuptools.
* Bugs
** OpenGL types issues working with macOS now (to test further examples)
** Triaging
** Shiboken issues when snippets and function collection with same names (QCoapClient::disconnect and QObject::disconnect)
** PYSIDE-1646 signature mapping issues with OpenGL types
* Features
** PYSIDE-1650 QAccesibility missing API
** Continue research on opaque containers
** PYSIDE-1436 Continue fixing things towards a full 3.10 compatibility (fixing refcounts)
** PYSIDE-535 PyPy compatibility still in progress (many bugs to be tackled)
 
==== 26. August 2021 ====
 
* Releases
** Commercial 5.15.6 LTS is being prepared.
** 6.1.3 might be delay a couple of days due to a couple of high prio bugs that were fixed.
* Bugs
** Fixing the OpenGL issues of missing GL* types
** Removing QtQuick classes that were blocking the CI
** Addressing errors on debug mode.
* Features
** Planning fixes for Nuitka to get a better support.
 
====19. August 2021 ====
 
* Bugs
** Various fixes in four patches for Python 3.10
** Bug from 2012 found in shiboken tests after three days debugging Python 3.10
* Features
** Python 3.10 support is totally ready
 
====12. August 2021====
 
* Infra & Releases
** Maintenance break
** Still looking into universal binary wheels (some tests failing)
** Preparing new releases.
* Bugs
** Threading/lock issues with QInputDialog and QAbstractSocket
** Stripping down shiboken installation files
* Features
** Moving important new patches from dev to 6.1 (tricky due the changes we have in dev atm)
** Continuing the test of 3.10
** Addressing new pyi issues
 
====5. August 2021====
* Infra & Releases
** Debug CI builds are still in progress.
* Bugs
** PYSIDE-1626 uic switching new minor problem with qApp.
** PYSIDE-1617 memory leaks
** New missing information in some .pyi files
** QInputDialog seems to be failing with threads
* Features
** Cleanups related to cheating macros Py Int/Long checks.
** reconstruction of the features for future work
 
====29. July 2021====
* Infra & Releases
** Universal binaries still in research
** Some errors were found on the CI debug configuration
** COIN has some network issues.
* Bugs
** Refactoring and small issues.
** feature: fix the UIC switching problem
** Documentation seems outdated in some places, so fix are coming.
* Features
** https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-1605
** Removing signature loader files to integrate them into the module.
 
====22. July 2021====
* Infrastructure
** Work on OSX11/universal binaries
* Bugs
** https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-1629 QML crash
** Debugging https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-1626 (snakecase + uic)
** https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-1625 exec_ regression
** https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-1623 missing docs
** https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-1621 Windows problem fixed by removing temp files
** Debugging memory leaks
* Features
** Research on  https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-1605 (directly wrapping C++ containers instead of converting them)
** Prototype/Discuss: Remove signature loader completely from physical FS (6.2 I guess)
* Other
** Fixed up documentation for 6.2
** Fixed overload handling in shiboken due to https://codereview.qt-project.org/c/qt/qtbase/+/359671
 
====15. July 2021====
 
* Infra & Releases
** CI has some issues related to qtbase and Windows
* Bugs
** https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-535 Issues when transforming Macros to Functions, leaks were found
** Fix memory leaks in shiboken
** QMultiMap and QMultiHash was not properly handle (defaultdict) | behavioral change
*** Before it was a a normal dict, with the last value (all the other values were not preserved)
* Features
** https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-1252 support classmethods in signatures and properties (static methods become properties, and that's the relation with classmethods)
** Adding QtDBus (QPendingReply is missing) and QtNetworkAuth modules
** Tools like qdbusxml2cpp is not supported yet.
** Remote Objects getting some contributions.
** Refreshing QML code and good practices, adding new examples, etc
** WIP qmlRegisterSingletonInstance and research on QML_NAMED_ELEMENT
** Improve docs: icons, style, content.
 
====08. July 2021====
 
* Infra & Releases
** Planning next releases.
* Bugs
** 1334 .connect returns now a bool to verify the connection.
** 1613 logging level
** 1618 session manager issue (Qt bug)
** 1619 discussion on accepting the QSettings.value (still in progress)
* Features
** lupdate now has support for Python, and will be available in 6.2 (+ docs)
** adding new API for WebEngine
** gettext tutorial
** pathlib support continues (QUrl)
** PyPy compatibility: still addressing the issues related to the type extensions.
** ApiExtractor: add classmethod attribute to add-function for tr()
** Attempting to expose QtDBus
** Improving docs and tutorials
** Experimenting with python-only modules.
 
====01. July 2021====
* Infra & Releases
** 6.1.2 ready to go out
** Trying CI debug configuration
* Bugs
** Documentation broken links, and improve Designer tutorials.
** PYSIDE-1609 findChild fixed
** PYSIDE-1370 QSharedMemory fixed
** PYSIDE-131 Translations issues fixed (with the problem that we don't have lupdate support on PySide6)
** QtSensors issues on the CI due to update solved.
* Features
** PYSIDE-535 PyPy Support still on going.
** Adding more missing classes.
** Analysing deployment scenario for PySide applications.
 
====24. June 2021====
* Feedback from Akademy 2021 sessions
** Tutorials on the Designer process, and other process that might be simple for Qt users, but unknown for Python users.
** More examples on the QML - Python interaction.
** Improve documentation
** Qt Creator support
** Template tool
* Release and Infra
** 6.1.2 coming next week.
* Bugs
** PYSIDE-131 in progress, related to translation with automatic language tools.
* Features
* Features
** Commercial addons
** Trying to address issues related to PyPy (type declaration, and extension structure)
** Tutorials
** Add new qml functions (update missing binding)
*** rcc
** Multimedia changes
*** uic
** WebEngine is partially in the repo.
*** QTranslator (*)
 
*** ...
====17. June 2021====
** QtAssistant integration
* Release and Infra
** loadUiType
** Commercial LTS release 5.15.5
** The new way of registering QML properties needs to be applied to the code base.
** New Debug VM setup ready to test
** Testing new architecture to handle universal binaries on M1 machines
* Bugs
** [https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-1599 PYSIDE-1599] Issue with .pyi files on the CI (to test them) is now fixed, considering wrong signatures that we had and didn't detect.
** Seems like there is something going on with the --quiet options and log levels.
** Cleaning old bugs that were invalid
* Feature
** Qt6 API adaption
** There are some corner cases with pathlib that need to be documented and fixed.
** Changes to rely on qtpath instead of qmake (from qt6 changes)
** Testing aarch64 and M1 builds


==== 30. April 2020 ====
====10. June 2021====
* CI Updates
* Release and Infra
** Issues with pip upgrades
** Commercial LTS release 5.15.5 rescheduled for next week.
** Planning new Python versions for new configurations.
** Trying to build 6.2, figuring differences between CentOS and RH (ldd issues)
* Update on bugs still around after 5.14.2.1
** Discussion to improve commercial offering installation.
** 1271: Deadlock (fixed)
* Bugs
** 1255: Signal not reached in QML (still in progress)
** https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-1593 pyi issue (and improvement too)
** 1280: Research
** Fixing issues related to --/++ operators
* Features
* Features
** QML interaction
** https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-1499 pathlib support (ready for review)
** Q_ENUM and pickling SbkEnum
** Adding many missing classes, enums, etc.
** Commercial Addons
** Adapting QtMultimedia new module and API
** Discussion on Handling native interfaces.
* Events
** Akademy participation (external talk)
** Qt Contributor Summit https://wiki.qt.io/Qt_Contributors_Summit_2021_-_Program


==== 23. April 2020 ====
====03. June 2021====
* 5.14.2.1 Release
* Release and Infra
* New bugs around threading:
** Qt 6.1.1 scheduled for Friday (might be release next week)
** https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-1271
** Commercial LTS 5.15.5 scheduled for the 10th.
** https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-1255 needs to be reopen.
** Research on M1 build on the CI
* Documentation changes around the replacement of the old pysideuic module
*** Locally it works: https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-1535
* Q_ENUM update
*** Wheels might be affect (universal binaries are too large)
** How to get a reference from the QMetaObjectBuilder without a QObject based project?
** Debug build on Windows to be tested.
* mypy compatibility
** The possibility of releasing Docker images is being addressed
** depends a bit on the Q_ENUM
* Bugs
** Smaller bugs (PYSIDE-1584, PYSIDE-1585 not reproduceable)
** Discussion finished https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-1567
** Issues with XML interface to Python https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-1588
** Class properties fix and refined code.
** Multi-inheritance still in progress.
* Features
** Small cleanups and fixes
** Added more API (PYSIDE-1586) for qtbase for starters
** Working on native interfaces (PYSIDE-1568)
** pathlib support https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-1499
*** File system paths in Qt are supported
** Discussion on new repo structure.


==== 16. April 2020 ====
====27. May 2021====


* Plan for 5.14.2-1 release
* Release and Infra
* Research on Pickling support, PYSIDE-15
** 5.15.5 LTS (Commercial only) release planned.
* Provided fix for PYSIDE-1267  related to efforts of exposing QScintilla
** 6.1.1 to be release soon.
* Object dumper to help debugging python implementations
** Debug build on Windows (using python_d.exe and pass '--debug' when building, and remove the '--limited-api=yes')
* Debugging options for the code model.
** Research: M1 build CI testing
* pysideuic old functionality into the QUiTools module
* Features
** compileUI
** Improvements to the general pyi generator, and features.
** loadUiType
** pathlib compatibility still in progress
* Q_ENUM discussion
** Shiboken documentation: unused code
* Bugs
** Multiple inheritance issues, when using explicit and implicit calls to parent constructors (super() vs Class)
** https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-1563 (QImage related)
** https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-1573 (QML related)
* Changelog policy
** [Changelog] This class will act like..., to be used for important changes.
* Research
** performance tests
** Tool: report new classes per Qt versions.
** Missing Qt API
** new structure cmake/build


==== 9. April 2020 ====
====20. May 2021====


* Most bugs reported in 5.14.2 are fix on 5.14
* 6.2 considerations (checking on newly added modules, examples, tests)
** Preparing the process for the release of 5.14.2-1
* Added textedit example
** Check about versioning on pypi to not override 5.14.2 wheels.
* Features
* PYSIDE-813 is now fixed
** PYSIDE-1415 Make `generate_pyi.py` usable for any binding - checked in
* PYSIDE-1255, Signals not being emitted.
** PYSIDE-1019 __feature__: Support generation of modified .pyi files - done, needs cleanup
* Working on Q_ENUM
* Bugs
** PYSIDE-1564 QObject does not support cooperative multiple inheritance
*** working patch written but wrong, the problem is much harder since we need to call __init__ along the MRO and handle keyword args.
** PYSIDE-229 Signal disconnect fails in multiple inheritance situation
*** postponed until the above problem is solved since it voids all debugging done


==== 2. April 2020 ====
====13. May 2021====


* 5.14.2 is out:
* No meeting due to holiday
** keep an eye on new bug reports.
* Bugs
*** https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-1253
** PYSIDE-1566 Designer plugins don't work on macOS - solved & checked in
*** https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-1254
** PYSIDE-1564 QObject does not support cooperative multiple inheritance
*** https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-1255
*** Problem isolated, in progress (needs quite some change)
** The new documentation is out too: https://doc.qt.io/qtforpython/
** - Signal's connect/disconnect issues in progress.
* 'manylinux1' discussion
* Features
* CI status
** generic generate_pyi.py - https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-1415 waiting for check-in
* 'loadUiType' status https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-1223
** - PYSIDE-1436 Support Python 3.10 - some progress
** two approaches for it, a Python and another in C.
** - pathlib in progress - https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-1499
* PYSIDE-813
** - PyPy compatibility stalled - https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-535
** Finding where the reference is gone, but there is the only issue left.
** All the other issues were solved.
** A solution should be out soon.
* Research on adding Python support for Qt's lupdate: PYSIDE-1252


==== 26. March 2020 ====
====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)
* 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.


* 5.14.2 Release
====29. April 2021====
* OKRs Update
* Infra & Release
** Looking for commercial opportunities
** Expected 6.0.4, 6.1, and 5.15.4(LTS) for next week.
* PYSIDE-813 new discoveries found:
** Creating 6.1 soon
** There are a couple of issues with one of the PYSIDE-803 patches that will be solved soon.
*** Enable macOS testing
** PYSIDE-164 is out of the picture
*** Property documentation
* Lambda functions for QWebEngineCallback PYSIDE-946 so we can expose the missing bindings.
*** Adding glibc version to linux wheel
* QVariant conversions tweaks PYSIDE-1250
* Bugs
* Working on adding 'loadUiType' into PySide PYSIDE-1223
** Fixing documentation issues
* Research on adding Python support for Qt's lupdate: PYSIDE-1252
** 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


==== 19. March 2020 ====
====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
** Minor fixes
** https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-478
** https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-1409
** https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-229
* 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


* 5.14.2 Release preparations
====15. April 2021====
* Work on Widget gallery example
* Done: Refinements to wheel-tester.py
* Done: Reworked test_wheel.py for macOS
* Done: Fixed PYSIDE-1247 signature warning in Python 3.6
* In progress: Instrumentation of PYSIDE-164/813


==== 12. March 2020 ====
* 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.


* CI Status
====08. April 2021====
** Everything up and running
* No meeting
** 5.14.2 to be released next week hopefully.
* PYSIDE-803
** Almost there!
** retrieveMetaObject improvements.
** We will try to test it without the allow-thread patch to evaluate performance.
* PYSIDE-813
** we will keep PYSIDE-164 open until we find a solution that fixes both.
* Starting to evaluate std::function compatibility with Shiboken.


==== 5. March 2020 ====
====01. April 2021====


* CI Update
* Deployment story
** Including Python 3.8
** Add new test for Nuitka (on macOS)
** Maybe using alternatives to have many Python versions.
** Update the tutorials, since PyInstaller and cx_Freeze seems to be partially working on Qt6.
* Priority bugs
** Higher versions from macOS are more restrictive for the bundles that are generated. This leads to new breakage.
** PYSIDE-803
* Preparation for 6.0.3 release
*** major changes in (caching)
* Bug
*** still other minor patches to be merged.
** PYSIDE-1523 Nuitka compile methods/functions is done
*** allow-thread patch has a bug, maybe this can be detach from the snippets one.
** PYSIDE-1338 Hiding confusing feature frame entries
** PYSIDE-813
** Wheel Tester to be improved.
*** PYSIDE-164 appears again if we fix it,
* Features
*** Maybe a solution is to fix 164 in another way.
** pathlib features still in progress.
* 5.15 feature status
** Porting more examples to snake_case
* Changes for Qt 6
** Check snippets_translator tool.
** Changes in the [https://codereview.qt-project.org/c/qt/qtbase/+/284225 QMetaType representation]
** Make generate_pyi as a generic tool to be merged.
*** Reference of the [https://codereview.qt-project.org/c/qt/qtdeclarative/+/285788 new system in qtdeclarative]
** Wishlist for [https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-904 Qt6 opportunities]


==== 27. February 2020 ====
====25. March 2021====


* CI Updates
* Infra
** 5.12 cherry-picks
** Evaluation to change the wheel names to specify glibc version for 6.1
* qApp
** CI issues still with macOS
** Deprecation message or alias (when using QtWidgets.qApp)
* Features
* PYSIDE-803
** Refactoring examples (snake_case)
** Missing patches to be merged
** Updating deployment docs.
*** Python 2.7 issues
** PYSIDE-1523 Nuitka, support for compiled functions.
*** allow-thread commit message (add a changelog)
** PYSIDE-1415 make the generate_pyi more general
*** second caching mechanism to be studied after we merge the first set of patches.
** PYSIDE-1449 pathlib compatibility
*** Third attempt after the stackless gilstate approach
** Improvements on the documentation, tutorials, and examples.
** Documentation
** Enabling snippet translator into the doc building process.
* Python 3.8 testing is still being worked out
* 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


==== 20. February 2020 ====
====18. March 2021====


* CI Updates
* Infra
** Cherry-picking some changes to 5.12 to fix the virtualenv 20 issues.
** CI has been showing some issues. 12h timeouts for macOS.
** macOS timeouts
** Soon to have 6.1 branch
** possibility of merging simple changes directly.
** Synchronization of the commercial repository with latest Qt.
* qApp issues
* Features
** Patches ready for review
** Improving commercial tools.
* PYSIDE-803
** Finding issues and getting ideas to improve the docs.
** Patches needs some polishing
** Using new qttools directory
* Testrunner improvements
** Add option to not copy qt tools to the wheel when building.
** stdout/stderr issues with ctest on windows
** pathlib compatibility patch still on-going
** smart pointers tests crashing, due to qApp issues.
** improvements to the documentation, adding 'doc' directory to each example.
** Python 3.8 is also giving problems (DLLs missing)
* Bugs
** debug builds on windows does not work.
** OpenGLFunctions issues (mailing list announcement)
* Shiboken documentation being reorganized
** PYSIDE-1520 Union types
* Starting testing Python 3.9
** 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


==== 13. February 2020 ====
====11. March 2021====


* CI updates
* Infra
** Windows package signing will be possible, hopefully soon.
** 6.0.2 is out
* Documentation updates
** 5.15.3 still pending
** Example gallery
** Trying to update dependencies for 6.1 (modules)
** WebChannel example merged,
** auditwheel (research, optional)
* Python 3.8 changes on Windows are still being tackled.
** 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
* Bugs
** PYSIDE-803 status: A patch waiting for review is there, but we need to combine it with the other solutions we currently have. Still, there are some corner cases where the problem is not properly solved.
** 1438 Visualization issue
** qApp issues to be solved, but we will remove the import features. qApp will remain as a built-in.
** https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-1516
* OKRS 1Q/2020
** 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.


==== 6. February 2020 ====
====5. March 2021====


* CI status and issues with the Qt provisioning 5.12
*General Topics
** 5.12.7 release will take more time to add new features.
**6.0.2 release preparations
** 5.14 has some issues with OpenGLFunctions.
***Final fix for license checking instructions
* Documentation: Interest for the new shiboken2 documentation structure and usage of the ApiExtractor.
***OSS RC1 wheels should be available for testing later today
* Python 3.8 compatibility with older branches.
***Merge from pyside-setup/6.0 into tqtc-pyside-setup/6.0 is pending that final fix
* Updates on PYSIDE-803 [https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-803?focusedCommentId=496894&page=com.atlassian.jira.plugin.system.issuetabpanels%3Acomment-tabpanel#comment-496894 link]
**Bugs
* Suggestion about iterations a-la-python https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-1216
*** [https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-1438 PYSIDE-1438] Crash in Qt DataVisualisation adressed
* Events
*** Bug triage, moved several bugs over to Qt
** Qt World Summit 2020 Palm Springs
**Features
** PyCon US
*** Cleanup and improvement of injected code snippets in PySide6
*** Improvements in error handling
 
====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.
*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
 
====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
*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
**https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-1470 fixed
**https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-1347 in progress
*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====


==== 30. January 2020 ====
*Infra update
* 5.14.1 release rolling
**libclang install fixes (issues related to 6.0 and 10.0)
* Work on [https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-1204 PYSIDE-1204]
***from the MSVC update, we require 10.0 for 5.15 and 6.0
* Work on [https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-1191 PYSIDE-1191] PySide2 5.14 source now builds against Qt 5.12 as well
*Bug fixes
* Further research on [https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-803 PYSIDE-803]
**PYSIDE-1447 qapp flag
** full instrumentation of generated source for tracing,
**PYSIDE-1463 snake_case init issue
** discovery of new hooks to support. Still in flux.
**PYSIDE-1470 shiboken delete qapp
* Fixed some issues of Python 3.8 (most prominently warnings about implicit conversion to integers for QFlags), will be fixed in 5.14.2
**PYSIDE-79 reopened due to a leak introduced by the fix to PYSIDE-68
* qApp macro [https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-1178 PYSIDE-1178] [https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-1158 PYSIDE-1158] [https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-1135 PYSIDE-1135] finally closed. One cleanup check in may follow.
*Features
**Possible research PYSIDE-163
**Refactoring shiboken
**PYSIDE-1455 designer plugin
**Snippets translators
**Deployment story for PySide6


==== 23. January 2020 ====
==2020==
* Fix for CI/macOS problem is in, but it requires some merges in Qt5. Until all required merges are done, we will use Qt5 5.14.1 with Qt For Python 5.14
* Research on [https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-803 PYSIDE-803]
* Proposed an "until" attribute for typesystem files to make it possible to build Pyside 5.14 against Qt 5.12  [https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-1195 PYSIDE-1195]
* Improved the view of compare app for [https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-803 PYSIDE-803]
* Analysis of PyQt5 and SIP implementation


==== 16. January 2020 ====
*[[Qt for Python Development Notes 2020]]
* CI/macOS problems are being worked.
* qApp fix waiting to be merged.
* first attempts to tackle [https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-803 PYSIDE-803]
* Python 3.8 fix to old branches is required for distributions using 5.12 LTS like Conda.
* Working on Q_ENUM support.
* Viewer for [https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-803 PYSIDE-803] is ready to try. Please check out https://git.qt.io/playground/pyside-compare.git and give feedback.


==== 9. January 2020 ====
==2019==
* [https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-1185 PYSIDE-803] needs to be tackled soon, it's critical, and we cannot carry that into Qt6.
* Python 3.8.1 on Windows has [https://codereview.qt-project.org/c/pyside/pyside-setup/+/285797/ some issues] while building.
* qApp macro changes [https://codereview.qt-project.org/c/pyside/pyside-setup/+/285655 discussion].
* documentation updates are still pending.
* with the release of 5.14 we have been fixing many details from uic's Python support.
* designer's RUNPATH [https://codereview.qt-project.org/c/pyside/pyside-setup/+/285712 needed to be patched], waiting for approval,
* A modular way of packing wheels is being studied.
* Re-take the Python extensions for QtCreator project evaluation.


== 2019 ==
*[[Qt for Python Development Notes 2019]]
* [[Qt for Python Development Notes 2019]]


== 2018 ==
==2018==


* [[Qt for Python Development Notes 2018]]
*[[Qt for Python Development Notes 2018]]

Revision as of 08:35, 16 September 2021

2021

16. September 2021

  • Release & Infra
    • Mostly focusing on having 6.2 on time
  • Bugs
    • 1659 QUiLoader issue with connecting signals based on strings.
    • 1660 Taking care of native C++ and Python types in the typesystem
  • Features
    • Opaque containers improved
    • SbkObjectType was removed, and an alias was left to PyObjectType
    • PyPy Support: heavy refactoring required for compatibility. Rewrites, and many other fixes.
      • Inheritance seems to be the more problematic bit at the moment (__new__)

09. September 2021

  • Releases & Infra
    • Commercial LTS 5.15.6 was released yesterday.
    • 6.1.3 is already out.
    • Some progress on the M1 wheels
  • Bugs
    • CoAP issue made us discover other flaws in shiboken that are fixed.
    • Sanitizing options needs more research.
  • Features
    • Updates to the docs before 6.2
    • Opaque containers still in progress
    • Adding new API to be compatible with PyCallable (QThreadPool)
    • Progress on the PyPy compatibility effort
    • Moving away from distutils to setuptools

02. September 2021

  • Releases & Infra
    • Commercial LTS 5.15.6 should be out soon
    • 6.1.3 should be ready today/tomorrow
    • starting migration from distutils to setuptools.
  • Bugs
    • OpenGL types issues working with macOS now (to test further examples)
    • Triaging
    • Shiboken issues when snippets and function collection with same names (QCoapClient::disconnect and QObject::disconnect)
    • PYSIDE-1646 signature mapping issues with OpenGL types
  • Features
    • PYSIDE-1650 QAccesibility missing API
    • Continue research on opaque containers
    • PYSIDE-1436 Continue fixing things towards a full 3.10 compatibility (fixing refcounts)
    • PYSIDE-535 PyPy compatibility still in progress (many bugs to be tackled)

26. August 2021

  • Releases
    • Commercial 5.15.6 LTS is being prepared.
    • 6.1.3 might be delay a couple of days due to a couple of high prio bugs that were fixed.
  • Bugs
    • Fixing the OpenGL issues of missing GL* types
    • Removing QtQuick classes that were blocking the CI
    • Addressing errors on debug mode.
  • Features
    • Planning fixes for Nuitka to get a better support.

19. August 2021

  • Bugs
    • Various fixes in four patches for Python 3.10
    • Bug from 2012 found in shiboken tests after three days debugging Python 3.10
  • Features
    • Python 3.10 support is totally ready

12. August 2021

  • Infra & Releases
    • Maintenance break
    • Still looking into universal binary wheels (some tests failing)
    • Preparing new releases.
  • Bugs
    • Threading/lock issues with QInputDialog and QAbstractSocket
    • Stripping down shiboken installation files
  • Features
    • Moving important new patches from dev to 6.1 (tricky due the changes we have in dev atm)
    • Continuing the test of 3.10
    • Addressing new pyi issues

5. August 2021

  • Infra & Releases
    • Debug CI builds are still in progress.
  • Bugs
    • PYSIDE-1626 uic switching new minor problem with qApp.
    • PYSIDE-1617 memory leaks
    • New missing information in some .pyi files
    • QInputDialog seems to be failing with threads
  • Features
    • Cleanups related to cheating macros Py Int/Long checks.
    • reconstruction of the features for future work

29. July 2021

  • Infra & Releases
    • Universal binaries still in research
    • Some errors were found on the CI debug configuration
    • COIN has some network issues.
  • Bugs
    • Refactoring and small issues.
    • feature: fix the UIC switching problem
    • Documentation seems outdated in some places, so fix are coming.
  • Features

22. July 2021

15. July 2021

  • Infra & Releases
    • CI has some issues related to qtbase and Windows
  • Bugs
    • https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-535 Issues when transforming Macros to Functions, leaks were found
    • Fix memory leaks in shiboken
    • QMultiMap and QMultiHash was not properly handle (defaultdict) | behavioral change
      • Before it was a a normal dict, with the last value (all the other values were not preserved)
  • Features
    • https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-1252 support classmethods in signatures and properties (static methods become properties, and that's the relation with classmethods)
    • Adding QtDBus (QPendingReply is missing) and QtNetworkAuth modules
    • Tools like qdbusxml2cpp is not supported yet.
    • Remote Objects getting some contributions.
    • Refreshing QML code and good practices, adding new examples, etc
    • WIP qmlRegisterSingletonInstance and research on QML_NAMED_ELEMENT
    • Improve docs: icons, style, content.

08. July 2021

  • Infra & Releases
    • Planning next releases.
  • Bugs
    • 1334 .connect returns now a bool to verify the connection.
    • 1613 logging level
    • 1618 session manager issue (Qt bug)
    • 1619 discussion on accepting the QSettings.value (still in progress)
  • Features
    • lupdate now has support for Python, and will be available in 6.2 (+ docs)
    • adding new API for WebEngine
    • gettext tutorial
    • pathlib support continues (QUrl)
    • PyPy compatibility: still addressing the issues related to the type extensions.
    • ApiExtractor: add classmethod attribute to add-function for tr()
    • Attempting to expose QtDBus
    • Improving docs and tutorials
    • Experimenting with python-only modules.

01. July 2021

  • Infra & Releases
    • 6.1.2 ready to go out
    • Trying CI debug configuration
  • Bugs
    • Documentation broken links, and improve Designer tutorials.
    • PYSIDE-1609 findChild fixed
    • PYSIDE-1370 QSharedMemory fixed
    • PYSIDE-131 Translations issues fixed (with the problem that we don't have lupdate support on PySide6)
    • QtSensors issues on the CI due to update solved.
  • Features
    • PYSIDE-535 PyPy Support still on going.
    • Adding more missing classes.
    • Analysing deployment scenario for PySide applications.

24. June 2021

  • Feedback from Akademy 2021 sessions
    • Tutorials on the Designer process, and other process that might be simple for Qt users, but unknown for Python users.
    • More examples on the QML - Python interaction.
    • Improve documentation
    • Qt Creator support
    • Template tool
  • Release and Infra
    • 6.1.2 coming next week.
  • Bugs
    • PYSIDE-131 in progress, related to translation with automatic language tools.
  • Features
    • Trying to address issues related to PyPy (type declaration, and extension structure)
    • Add new qml functions (update missing binding)
    • Multimedia changes
    • WebEngine is partially in the repo.

17. June 2021

  • Release and Infra
    • Commercial LTS release 5.15.5
    • New Debug VM setup ready to test
    • Testing new architecture to handle universal binaries on M1 machines
  • Bugs
    • PYSIDE-1599 Issue with .pyi files on the CI (to test them) is now fixed, considering wrong signatures that we had and didn't detect.
    • Seems like there is something going on with the --quiet options and log levels.
    • Cleaning old bugs that were invalid
  • Feature
    • Qt6 API adaption
    • There are some corner cases with pathlib that need to be documented and fixed.
    • Changes to rely on qtpath instead of qmake (from qt6 changes)
    • Testing aarch64 and M1 builds

10. June 2021

03. June 2021

  • Release and Infra
    • Qt 6.1.1 scheduled for Friday (might be release next week)
    • Commercial LTS 5.15.5 scheduled for the 10th.
    • Research on M1 build on the CI
    • Debug build on Windows to be tested.
    • The possibility of releasing Docker images is being addressed
  • Bugs
  • Features
    • Small cleanups and fixes
    • Added more API (PYSIDE-1586) for qtbase for starters
    • Working on native interfaces (PYSIDE-1568)
    • pathlib support https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-1499
      • File system paths in Qt are supported
    • Discussion on new repo structure.

27. May 2021

  • Release and Infra
    • 5.15.5 LTS (Commercial only) release planned.
    • 6.1.1 to be release soon.
    • Debug build on Windows (using python_d.exe and pass '--debug' when building, and remove the '--limited-api=yes')
    • Research: M1 build CI testing
  • Features
    • Improvements to the general pyi generator, and features.
    • pathlib compatibility still in progress
    • Shiboken documentation: unused code
  • Bugs
  • Changelog policy
    • [Changelog] This class will act like..., to be used for important changes.
  • Research
    • performance tests
    • Tool: report new classes per Qt versions.
    • Missing Qt API
    • new structure cmake/build

20. May 2021

  • 6.2 considerations (checking on newly added modules, examples, tests)
  • Added textedit example
  • Features
    • PYSIDE-1415 Make `generate_pyi.py` usable for any binding - checked in
    • PYSIDE-1019 __feature__: Support generation of modified .pyi files - done, needs cleanup
  • Bugs
    • PYSIDE-1564 QObject does not support cooperative multiple inheritance
      • working patch written but wrong, the problem is much harder since we need to call __init__ along the MRO and handle keyword args.
    • PYSIDE-229 Signal disconnect fails in multiple inheritance situation
      • postponed until the above problem is solved since it voids all debugging done

13. May 2021

06. May 2021

29. April 2021

22. April 2021

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

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

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

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
  • 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

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
  • 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
  • Starting work on new tutorials and applications (Data Science and visualization)

14. January 2021

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
  • 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

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