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== 2020 ==
==2021==


==== 22. October 2020 ====
==== 16. September 2021 ====
* Qt 6 work
* Refactoring shiboken2 for Qt 6
* Investigated [https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-1408 PYSIDE-1408], [https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-1410 PYSIDE-1410], no conclusions so far
* Implementation of class properties ready for review tomorrow, will be integrated in dev branch.


==== 15. October 2020 ====
* 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__)


* Infra update
==== 09. September 2021 ====
** COIN configuration on macOS Python 2.7 'intel' is a bit weird and it fails for https://codereview.qt-project.org/c/pyside/pyside-setup/+/315756
** 5.15 will go to cherry-pick mode and 'dev' will become the default branch
*** This is motivated from the true_propery patches being merged
*** Some pending patches
* Trying to enable QtConcurrent methods (some)
** what about Python-only alternatives like https://docs.python.org/3.8/library/concurrent.html
* Bug fixes
** uic 'things' to  review for 5.15
** QtCreator templates bugs to be reported.
* Qt 6 Effort
** Still more work here...
** Examples, and dealing with the latest from dev
* Some embedded cross compiling effort


==== 8. October 2020 ====
* 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


* Infra
==== 02. September 2021 ====
** Timeouts maybe when the test_wheel hangs?
** Cache the wheels we install for the installation process, somehow.
* PYSIDE-827 Commands help
** Complicated refactoring, but it's waiting for review atm.
* Bugs fix
** export macro issue
** experiment with QtConcurrent PYSIDE-1202
** PYSIDE-1098 getframe was not properly working with 1 as argument.
** (on hold for Qt6) PYSIDE-1019 Properties modified for static ones
** fix static string leak
** PYSIDE-1128 QScintilla research
* Qt 6 efforts
** Fixing tests, and more.


==== 1. October 2020 ====
* Releases & Infra
 
** Commercial LTS 5.15.6 should be out soon
* Infra
** 6.1.3 should be ready today/tomorrow
** Still the 'usual' timeouts while installing Python requirements. Maybe we could fix this?
** starting migration from distutils to setuptools.
* Documentation
* Bugs
** Access .qch documentations files offline - https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/QTWEBSITE-944
** OpenGL types issues working with macOS now (to test further examples)
** Documentation fixes related to RST syntax and code snippets.
** Triaging
* Bug fixing
** Shiboken issues when snippets and function collection with same names (QCoapClient::disconnect and QObject::disconnect)
** [https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-31 PYSIDE-31] no news, postponed
** PYSIDE-1646 signature mapping issues with OpenGL types
** [https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-1075 PYSIDE-1075] Fixed
** [https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-1326 PYSIDE-1326] Fix ready
* Features
* Features
** [https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-1019 PYSIDE-1019] property support ready for Python property.
** PYSIDE-1650 QAccesibility missing API
** PYSIDE-1019 Property almost completely rewritten to pass the Python tests. Almost done.
** Continue research on opaque containers
** PYSIDE-1019 shiboken: It is also possible to have properties for projects not using the PySide2 extension
** PYSIDE-1436 Continue fixing things towards a full 3.10 compatibility (fixing refcounts)
* Qt6 Port
** PYSIDE-535 PyPy compatibility still in progress (many bugs to be tackled)
** Still adapting API changes
* Extras
** PySide Property turned out to be quite incompatible with Python properties.
** Ready to implement static Property.
** We might get some QA related help for the whole project :)
** We will continue with  adding the command line options to the build/install steps


==== 24. September 2020 ====
==== 26. August 2021 ====


* Infra
* Releases
** One strange error related to PYSIDE-1388
** Commercial 5.15.6 LTS is being prepared.
** Trying to merge the change to test 3.8.1 on Windows too
** 6.1.3 might be delay a couple of days due to a couple of high prio bugs that were fixed.
* Bug fixing spree
* Bugs
** PYSIDE-1017
** Fixing the OpenGL issues of missing GL* types
** PYSIDE-1224
** Removing QtQuick classes that were blocking the CI
** PYSIDE-665
** Addressing errors on debug mode.
** PYSIDE-1388
* Features
* Qt6 progress
** Planning fixes for Nuitka to get a better support.
** QML was working for some period
** Qt3D compiling
* overloadID feature for typesystems (order of overloads)
* PYSIDE-68
* Simplyfying the signature module
** motivated by the feature support
* PYSIDE-31
* Research Options update, replacing the ad-hoc class with argparse
** Include patch that display custom options into the distutils implementation


==== 17. September 2020 ====
====19. August 2021 ====


* 5.15.1 released
* Bugs
* Qt 6 efforts
** Various fixes in four patches for Python 3.10
* Properties features submitted [https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-1019 PYSIDE-1019]
** Bug from 2012 found in shiboken tests after three days debugging Python 3.10
* Bug fixing efforts, provided work arounds or fixes for  
* Features
** [https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-972 PYSIDE-972]
** Python 3.10 support is totally ready
** [https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-1212 PYSIDE-1212]
** [https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-1354 PYSIDE-1354]
** [https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-1367 PYSIDE-1367]
** [https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-1381 PYSIDE-1381]
** [https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-1383 PYSIDE-1383]


==== 10. September 2020 ====
====12. August 2021====
* 5.15.1 release waiting for final
** blog post about some features
* Try a new python version on the CI
* Qt 6 efforts
** Adding back the tools (uic/rcc)
** New feature shiboken overload order
** Waiting for the properties features before moving 5.15 to cherry pick mode
** Major changes will get into dev as soon as we move 5.15 to cherry pick.
* Review repeated overloads from a Python point of view and remove the unnecesary ones.
* PYSIDE-74 is fixed, and now every object will have a __ne__ and __eq__
* testing:  Ensure that build dir precedes site-packages.
* Writable properties is still in development, and closer to be done
** what do we do with the internal pyside properties? TBD
* Akademy 2020 participation
** GNU Health uses PySide2!
** Kirigami for Python users


==== 3. September 2020 ====
* Infra & Releases
* Infra update
** Maintenance break
** libclang 10 issue, we need a shared library, but the latest had static only.
** Still looking into universal binary wheels (some tests failing)
*** Using the QtCreator one solved the issue.
** Preparing new releases.
** snapshots wheels broken atm
* Bugs
** Plan for 5.15.1
** Threading/lock issues with QInputDialog and QAbstractSocket
* True properties
** Stripping down shiboken installation files
** make static properties needed around 10% of the cases, it collides with limited api.
* Features
** new corner case for non-standard properties.
** Moving important new patches from dev to 6.1 (tricky due the changes we have in dev atm)
** Use in runtime the information from the Meta Object.
** Continuing the test of 3.10
* Bug fixes
** Addressing new pyi issues
** https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-1177 __doc__
** Doc build regression
** Nuitka compatibility
* Qt6 related work
** Adapting the latest state of qtbase
** Simplify our CMakeLists files to use what is provided by libclang
* QML breakage with the latest state of dev


==== 27. August 2020 ====
====5. August 2021====
* Infra update
* Infra & Releases
** Waiting on confirmation for 5.15.1 release
** Debug CI builds are still in progress.
** Discard mingw config
* Bugs
** Include a Linux 64bit Python 3.8.x config
** PYSIDE-1626 uic switching new minor problem with qApp.
* True property features
** PYSIDE-1617 memory leaks
** Basic implementation in-place with shiboken support.
** New missing information in some .pyi files
** Tackling errors from the parser
** QInputDialog seems to be failing with threads
** The data from ApiExtractor should be improved
* Features
** Pending tasks: (1) Support for static properties (~20-30), (2) add missing properties via some heuristic, maybe adding support for the typesystem special entries, and (3) improve support for the signature model.
** Cleanups related to cheating macros Py Int/Long checks.
* Bugs fixing
** reconstruction of the features for future work
** Many old bugs closed, due to being fixed or invalid in newer versions.
** Prioritization plan for some of the remaining
** Important bug for the project https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-478 we need a better error propagation.
* lupdate compatibility delayed
* QML interaction
** ListProperty was heavily improved, adding missing argument options and checks.


====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.


==== 20. August 2020 ====
====22. July 2021====
* Infra update
* Infrastructure
** Fix for virtualenv problems on RedHat.
** Work on OSX11/universal binaries
** Speed issues on the CI
* Bugs
** we still require a libclang update.
** https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-1629 QML crash
** Waiting for a date for 5.15.1
** Debugging https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-1626 (snakecase + uic)
* (in progress) https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-1019 (features properties)
** https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-1625 exec_ regression
* (in progress) https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-1328 (static/dyn methods)
** https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-1623 missing docs
* Qt6 changes
** https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-1621 Windows problem fixed by removing temp files
** QStringRef replacement by QStringView
** Debugging memory leaks
** Fixing broken tests
* Features
* Discussion around https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-1363
** Research on  https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-1605 (directly wrapping C++ containers instead of converting them)
** We could generate manylinux2014 wheels.
** Prototype/Discuss: Remove signature loader completely from physical FS (6.2 I guess)
* Fixed some issues with ListProperty on the QML integration :)
* Other
** Fixed up documentation for 6.2
** Fixed overload handling in shiboken due to https://codereview.qt-project.org/c/qt/qtbase/+/359671


==== 13. August 2020 ====
====15. July 2021====


* Infra update
* Infra & Releases
** dev is still open for direct submit.
** CI has some issues related to qtbase and Windows
** libclang 10 update keeps waiting fixes to qttools.
* Bugs
** The python3.8 test will get amended later today.
** https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-535 Issues when transforming Macros to Functions, leaks were found
* Bug fixing
** Fix memory leaks in shiboken
** Missing classes
** QMultiMap and QMultiHash was not properly handle (defaultdict) | behavioral change
** 3D related
*** Before it was a a normal dict, with the last value (all the other values were not preserved)
** pyi incomplete
* Features
** QmlComponent deadlock
** https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-1252 support classmethods in signatures and properties (static methods become properties, and that's the relation with classmethods)
* (in progress) Qt Property access
** Adding QtDBus (QPendingReply is missing) and QtNetworkAuth modules
** Issues with the binding manager (functions inside properties)
** Tools like qdbusxml2cpp is not supported yet.
** The feature switching needs to be slower (no features, snake_case, etc)
** Remote Objects getting some contributions.
* Planned work on 3.9 compatibility
** Refreshing QML code and good practices, adding new examples, etc
* QML ListProperty in dev is broken
** WIP qmlRegisterSingletonInstance and research on QML_NAMED_ELEMENT
** Improve docs: icons, style, content.


==== 6. August 2020 ====
====08. July 2021====


* Infra update
* Infra & Releases
** libclang versioning issues (we need 8+, we have 6)
** Planning next releases.
** Adding Python 3.8.1 for Python (needs review)
* Bugs
* Research for commercial opportunities
** 1334 .connect returns now a bool to verify the connection.
* (in progress) Qt Property access
** 1613 logging level
** prototype waiting for review
** 1618 session manager issue (Qt bug)
** some complications with inherited attributes/properties
** 1619 discussion on accepting the QSettings.value (still in progress)
** Class properties are a complication, since we need to make a difference with instance properties.
* Features
* (in progress) Shiboken initialization more verbose
** lupdate now has support for Python, and will be available in 6.2 (+ docs)
** for Freezing tools.
** adding new API for WebEngine
* Check for signature/stubs documentation.
** 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.


==== 30. July 2020 ====
====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.


* No meeting
====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.


==== 23. July 2020 ====
====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
** [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


* Infra update
====10. June 2021====
** 5.15 and dev -> Python 3.8.1 (Windows) => Working
* Release and Infra
** Some issues with some images.
** Commercial LTS release 5.15.5 rescheduled for next week.
* (needs review) Selectable features
** Trying to build 6.2, figuring differences between CentOS and RH (ldd issues)
** New example to test
** Discussion to improve commercial offering installation.
** AL Completion issues
* Bugs
** signal/slots will remain camelCase at the moment.
** https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-1593 pyi issue (and improvement too)
* (in progress) Python 3.9 compatibility
** Fixing issues related to --/++ operators
** Signature module requires some work.
* Features
* (in progress) Qt 6 porting
** https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-1499 pathlib support (ready for review)
** Issues with templates in Qt6
** Adding many missing classes, enums, etc.
** QByteArrayView might be an issue
** Adapting QtMultimedia new module and API
** Documentation needs qttools, it might work with cmake/qt6
** Discussion on Handling native interfaces.
* (in progress) QML interaction
* Events
** qmlRegisterSingletonType ready
** Akademy participation (external talk)
** qmlRegisterUncreatableType is the next step
** Qt Contributor Summit https://wiki.qt.io/Qt_Contributors_Summit_2021_-_Program


==== 16. July 2020 ====
====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
*** Locally it works: https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-1535
*** Wheels might be affect (universal binaries are too large)
** Debug build on Windows to be tested.
** The possibility of releasing Docker images is being addressed
* 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.


* Infra update
====27. May 2021====
** Updates on the Windows VM template to get some optimization.
** Getting Python 3.8.1 on Windows to test the latest minor version.
* (in progress) Selectable features
** COIN issues after the history log deletion (prune)
** Issues with the initialization on scriptableapplication (patch on gerrit)
* (in progress) PySide 6
** Progress being done in Windows and macOS
* QML update (on dev -> Qt6)
** Removed the limit to 50 types https://codereview.qt-project.org/c/pyside/pyside-setup/+/307424
** qmlRegisterSingletonType patch waiting for review https://codereview.qt-project.org/c/pyside/pyside-setup/+/307908


==== 9. July 2020 ====
* 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
** 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


* Infra update
====20. May 2021====
** 5.14 issues related to virtualenv (but 5.14.2 works)
** dev is open for direct merges.
** 5.14.2.3 macOS needs review to be released.
** sdist packages WIP patch.
* Python 3.9b4 is out and we will try it out.
* (in progress) Selectable features
** new corner cases were found, so they are being tackled.
* (in progress) access Qt properties directly
** decide which are the properties at runtime.
** Maybe sources/pyside2/PySide2/global.h.in:41 can help
*** #define QT_ANNOTATE_ACCESS_SPECIFIER(a) __attribute__((annotate(#a)))
* (in progress) Qt6 compatibility
** Dealing with test failures.
** Issues OpenGLWidgets
** We need to update the MetaType registration mechanisms to start working on QML register types


* 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


==== 2. July 2020 ====
====13. May 2021====


* Infra Update
* No meeting due to holiday
** Timeouts issues, increasing it is not a solution.
* Bugs
** How to proceed with dev to use Qt6
** PYSIDE-1566 Designer plugins don't work on macOS - solved & checked in
*** merge without CI
** PYSIDE-1564 QObject does not support cooperative multiple inheritance
*** clarify the yaml configuration
*** Problem isolated, in progress (needs quite some change)
** 5.14.2.3 new release planned
** - Signal's connect/disconnect issues in progress.
* Selectable Features
* Features
** snake_case for camelCase names.
** generic generate_pyi.py - https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-1415 waiting for check-in
** (in progress) access Qt properties directly:
** - PYSIDE-1436 Support Python 3.10 - some progress
*** For 'label = QLabel("hello")', we could do 'label.text = "bye"' instead of using the 'label.setText("bye")'.
** - pathlib in progress - https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-1499
* Qt6 compatibility
** - PyPy compatibility stalled - https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-535
** QML working on Linux (this will enable us to work on the registration)
* Some improvements in the documentation generation must be done to speed up the process.
* pyside2_config.py file to CMake
** include XConfig.cmake files on the wheel
* sdist package
** nice to have: pip install -e ., but at the moment we have three egg-info directories (error)
* Starting again with the cross compilation of PySide for embedded linux.
==== 25. June 2020 ====


* Infra update
====06. May 2021====
** Release of the second set of Windows 64bit wheels.
* Infra & Release
** Issues on the CI due to some internal issues, everything should be running soon.
** 6.1 postponed for next Thursday
* (in progress) from __future__ import newapi
*** Reverting NumPy integration (made it experimental feature, due to problem with shared library)
** it's tricky to provide snake_case instead of camelCase
*** Qt Designer Plugin (not compatible with Limited API)
** issues with tp_getattro
*** Update changelog
** creating modified Python objects to replace the original types at runtime
*** Cherry pick exec related changes.
* (in progress) from __future__ import newproperties
*** oss/6.1 tqtc/6.1 (to be created)
** Still many things to go
* Bugs
* PYSIDE-1282 pthread crash solved, and will be merge in 5.14
** PYSIDE-1404 improvements
* Indentation fixes for generated code. Prefix adaptation for a standard format so it can be loaded in QtCreator (from warning and stuff)
** Property docs - https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-1513
* Qt for Python 6 is partially working in some platforms
** __feature__ at the end - https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-1548
** Still many missing modules,
** Signal's connect/disconnect issues in progress.
** CMakeLists.txt files needs some love,
* Features
** Needs to adapt CI for the new dev branch
** generic generate_pyi.py - https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-1415
** Windows has some issues still :)
** pathlib in progress - https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-1499
* libclang situation, are we sharing the same version for qdoc, qtcreator, qt, etc...?
** PyPy compatibility in progress - https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-535
** Need to check in case we decide to update
** Discussion on keyword-support arguments in shiboken - https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-1555
* Commercial wheels split progress
** Possible adoption of "/" in signatures.


==== 18. June 2020 ====
====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


* Infra update
====22. April 2021====
** The new windows wheels still had some issues, it seems the latest are OK, and we would need to publish '_2' wheels.
* Infra & Release
** Some issues with macOS builds for 5.15.0
** 6.0.4 release was postponed, but we are on time.
* Qt6 compatibility
** 6.1 is on track.
** This is stopping the improvements in the QML integration story
*** wheel name to support more than 1 binary for linux.
** We need this merged before continuing https://codereview.qt-project.org/c/qt/qtbase/+/301979
** Starting to try the new CI macOS machines.
* Merged a bug fix to 5.12 (the CI was not broken)
* Bugs
* (in progress) Qt6 Properties camelCase to lower_case
** Minor fixes
** Not a trivial task
** https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-478
** It's possible to rename dynamically functions, and other things.
** https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-1409
** Containers needs to be taken care too
** https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-229
** Having more than one object with the same ID is challenging
* Features
** Issues with str based objects
** Numpy QtChart compatibility
* Fixed PYSIDE-1332, PYSIDE-1327
** PyPy compatibility https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-535
* (in progress) Commercial wheel are almost ready on Linux, later some changes for Windows and macOS are required.
** Looking into other module compatibilities
* (in progress) WigglyWidget example almost there
** Improve documentation for Property use in QML
* (in progress) New StyleSheet tutorial.
** Improve the generate_pyi script
==== 11. June 2020 ====


* Infra Update
====15. April 2021====
** MSVC 2019 DLL issue with 5.15.0, we shipped a DLL that was too new. (https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-1323)
** A new set of wheels will be available for Windows users (without a modern MSVC)
* QEnum implementation
** Waiting for review
** Qt5 compatible
** QFlag is also exposed
* Research: Qt6 Properties camelCase to lower_case
** https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-1019
* Started to fix missing types information: https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-1318
* Fix memory leaks in property accesors (https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-1321),
* Fix code generation bugs (https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-1325)
* Incremental wheels
* Missing pyside2uic features
* Backports for 5.12
** Ask Gerrit admins
** Try one last patch.


==== 4. June 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 Update
====08. April 2021====
** Limited API reports work
* No meeting
** Improve integrations on macOS
* Documentation updates for Qt Assistant
* PYSIDE-1257 cx_Freeze issues seems to be related to cx_Freeze itself.
* Q_ENUM and QFlag will be soon available.
* New Shiboken example to expose a custom Qt Widget to Python
* loadUiType is back into PySide (relies on pyside2-uic on PATH)
* Other bug fixes.


==== 28. May 2020 ====
====01. April 2021====
* Releases
** 5.15.0 and 5.14.2.2 were released :) https://www.qt.io/blog/qt-for-python-5.15.0-is-out
** Thoughts about 5.14.2.3
** 5.15.1 release is still not defined
* Documentation
* CI Status
** The limited-api check was somehow bypass by one specific patch https://codereview.qt-project.org/c/pyside/pyside-setup/+/298845 We need to keep an eye to avoid this in the future.
* Backlog status [https://bugreports.qt.io/secure/RapidBoard.jspa?rapidView=262&view=planning.nodetail&selectedIssue=PYSIDE-463&issueLimit=100 check it here]
* QML Integration update
** We are working on finishing the implementation of Q_ENUM, to be able to use the singletonType registration
** Additionally, we are looking into the uncreatableType registration too.
* Development branch for Qt6
** We need the following before jumping into dev.
*** QList/QVector
*** QString -> integrated (clarity)


==== 21. May 2020 ====
* Deployment story
* '''Holiday'''
** 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.


==== 14. May 2020 ====
====25. March 2021====


* CI Updates
* Infra
** CI blocked due to some provisioning issues in red hat
** Evaluation to change the wheel names to specify glibc version for 6.1
** 5.14.2.2 Release is on hold
** CI issues still with macOS
** 5.15 commercial release in preparation
* Features
** License check
** Refactoring examples (snake_case)
* 5.15 Release
** Updating deployment docs.
** Pickling changes
** PYSIDE-1523 Nuitka, support for compiled functions.
** Examples
** PYSIDE-1415 make the generate_pyi more general
** loadUiType
** PYSIDE-1449 pathlib compatibility
* Tutorials rcc, designer
** Improvements on the documentation, tutorials, and examples.
** Add project's tutorial.
** Enabling snippet translator into the doc building process.
* Continue research of using Qt6
* Bugs
* __qualname__ attributes are almost done
** Fix crash from the new Network components.
** This changes was required for the pickling support.
** 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


==== 7. May 2020 ====
====18. March 2021====
* CI Updates
** Issues with the provisioning, for example the connection with PyPi, still in progress.
** We will add a requirements.txt for provisioning.
* Issues
** PYSIDE-1255 Signal not reached in QML
** Pickling Qt Enums PYSIDE-15
*** Almost finished, but we are waiting for PYSIDE-1285 to be fix (modulename, qualname).
** Many other minor bugs have been fixed, but still there are a couple of strange ones.
** First attempts to build shiboken with Qt6
** Ideas repo re-organization
* Features
** Commercial addons
** Tutorials
*** rcc
*** uic
*** QTranslator (*)
*** ...
** QtAssistant integration
** loadUiType
** The new way of registering QML properties needs to be applied to the code base.


==== 30. April 2020 ====
* Infra
* CI Updates
** CI has been showing some issues. 12h timeouts for macOS.
** Issues with pip upgrades
** Soon to have 6.1 branch
** Planning new Python versions for new configurations.
** Synchronization of the commercial repository with latest Qt.
* Update on bugs still around after 5.14.2.1
** 1271: Deadlock (fixed)
** 1255: Signal not reached in QML (still in progress)
** 1280: Research
* Features
* Features
** QML interaction
** Improving commercial tools.
** Q_ENUM and pickling SbkEnum
** Finding issues and getting ideas to improve the docs.
** Commercial Addons
** 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


==== 23. April 2020 ====
====11. March 2021====
* 5.14.2.1 Release
* New bugs around threading:
** https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-1271
** https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-1255 needs to be reopen.
* Documentation changes around the replacement of the old pysideuic module
* Q_ENUM update
** How to get a reference from the QMetaObjectBuilder without a QObject based project?
* mypy compatibility
** depends a bit on the Q_ENUM


==== 16. April 2020 ====
* Infra
 
** 6.0.2 is out
* Plan for 5.14.2-1 release
** 5.15.3 still pending
* Research on Pickling support, PYSIDE-15
** Trying to update dependencies for 6.1 (modules)
* Provided fix for PYSIDE-1267  related to efforts of exposing QScintilla
** auditwheel (research, optional)
* Object dumper to help debugging python implementations
** COIN seems to be acting weird, but generally.
* Debugging options for the code model.
* Features
* pysideuic old functionality into the QUiTools module
** cleanup snippets and general things in shiboken
** compileUI
** license changes for LTS
** loadUiType
** Adding clarifications to the docs.
* Q_ENUM discussion
** Discussion on the proper build processes.
 
* Bugs
==== 9. April 2020 ====
** 1438 Visualization issue
 
** https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-1516
* Most bugs reported in 5.14.2 are fix on 5.14
** https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-1514 shiboken renaming causes an issue for copying files to the wheel.
** Preparing the process for the release of 5.14.2-1
** Show the __feature__ issues on the traceback.
** Check about versioning on pypi to not override 5.14.2 wheels.
* PYSIDE-813 is now fixed
* PYSIDE-1255, Signals not being emitted.
* Working on Q_ENUM
 
==== 2. April 2020 ====


* 5.14.2 is out:
====5. March 2021====
** keep an eye on new bug reports.
*** https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-1253
*** https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-1254
*** https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-1255
** The new documentation is out too: https://doc.qt.io/qtforpython/
* 'manylinux1' discussion
* CI status
* 'loadUiType' status https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-1223
** two approaches for it, a Python and another in C.
* PYSIDE-813
** 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 ====
*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
*** [https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-1438 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


* 5.14.2 Release
====25. February 2021====
* OKRs Update
** Looking for commercial opportunities
* PYSIDE-813 new discoveries found:
** There are a couple of issues with one of the PYSIDE-803 patches that will be solved soon.
** PYSIDE-164 is out of the picture
* Lambda functions for QWebEngineCallback PYSIDE-946 so we can expose the missing bindings.
* QVariant conversions tweaks PYSIDE-1250
* Working on adding 'loadUiType' into PySide PYSIDE-1223
* Research on adding Python support for Qt's lupdate: PYSIDE-1252


==== 19. March 2020 ====
*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


* 5.14.2 Release preparations
====18. February 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 ====
*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.


* CI Status
====11. February 2021====
** Everything up and running
** 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 ====
*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


* CI Update
====4. February 2021====
** Including Python 3.8
** Maybe using alternatives to have many Python versions.
* Priority bugs
** PYSIDE-803
*** major changes in (caching)
*** still other minor patches to be merged.
*** allow-thread patch has a bug, maybe this can be detach from the snippets one.
** PYSIDE-813
*** PYSIDE-164 appears again if we fix it,
*** Maybe a solution is to fix 164 in another way.
* 5.15 feature status
* Changes for Qt 6
** Changes in the [https://codereview.qt-project.org/c/qt/qtbase/+/284225 QMetaType representation]
*** 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 ====
*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


* CI Updates
====28. January 2021====
** 5.12 cherry-picks
* qApp
** Deprecation message or alias (when using QtWidgets.qApp)
* PYSIDE-803
** Missing patches to be merged
*** Python 2.7 issues
*** allow-thread commit message (add a changelog)
*** second caching mechanism to be studied after we merge the first set of patches.
*** Third attempt after the stackless gilstate approach
** Documentation
* Python 3.8 testing is still being worked out


==== 20. February 2020 ====
*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


* CI Updates
====21. January 2021====
** Cherry-picking some changes to 5.12 to fix the virtualenv 20 issues.
** macOS timeouts
** possibility of merging simple changes directly.
* qApp issues
** Patches ready for review
* PYSIDE-803
** Patches needs some polishing
* Testrunner improvements
** stdout/stderr issues with ctest on windows
** smart pointers tests crashing, due to qApp issues.
** Python 3.8 is also giving problems (DLLs missing)
** debug builds on windows does not work.
* Shiboken documentation being reorganized
* Starting testing Python 3.9


==== 13. February 2020 ====
*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)


* CI updates
====14. January 2021====
** Windows package signing will be possible, hopefully soon.
* Documentation updates
** Example gallery
** WebChannel example merged,
* Python 3.8 changes on Windows are still being tackled.
* 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.
** qApp issues to be solved, but we will remove the import features. qApp will remain as a built-in.
* OKRS 1Q/2020


==== 6. February 2020 ====
*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


* CI status and issues with the Qt provisioning 5.12
====7. January 2021====
** 5.12.7 release will take more time to add new features.
** 5.14 has some issues with OpenGLFunctions.
* Documentation: Interest for the new shiboken2 documentation structure and usage of the ApiExtractor.
* Python 3.8 compatibility with older branches.
* 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]
* Suggestion about iterations a-la-python https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-1216
* Events
** Qt World Summit 2020 Palm Springs
** PyCon US


==== 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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