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== 2020 ==
==2021==


==== 12. November 2020 ====
==== 16. September 2021 ====


* Infra
* Release & Infra
** Tests running for dev configurations, still fighting.
** Mostly focusing on having 6.2 on time
*** CentOS issues with LimitedAPI
* Bugs
*** macOS Qt namespace header from QtCore
** 1659 QUiLoader issue with connecting signals based on strings.
** There are some issues with clang6 and 5.15
** 1660 Taking care of native C++ and Python types in the typesystem
** 5.15.2 Soon to be release.
* Features
* Removed AddedFunction::TypeInfo in favor of the code model parser.
** Opaque containers improved
* Cleanup related to our headers.
** SbkObjectType was removed, and an alias was left to PyObjectType
* Error message patches are finished (extension feature)
** PyPy Support: heavy refactoring required for compatibility. Rewrites, and many other fixes.
* Fix bug related to class properties.
*** Inheritance seems to be the more problematic bit at the moment (__new__)
* There has been new demand on how to contribute examples, and where to get more examples
** We should try to take this topic once again.
* Many new bug reports in our backlog! a good sign that more people is using it :)


==== 5. November 2020 ====
==== 09. September 2021 ====
* Infra update
** NFS issue last night (COIN was down)
** 5.15 is fixed after the numpy pin
** 5.15.2 start preparation for the release.
** Planning the CI configuration for dev
* __feature__ error messages handling
* Evaluate generate_pyi.py as a tool
* Rename from pyside2 -> pyside6
* Still on Qt6 reactive mode
* Bug fixes
* declare-function attribute for typesystem (motivated by QList)


* 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


==== 29. October 2020 ====
==== 02. September 2021 ====
* Infra Update
** 5.15.2 in the horizon
* Qt6 efforts
** Catching up with the latest changes in qtbase and friends.
** Dropping support for Python 2 and 3.5
** Rename of shiboken2 -> shiboken6 (already merged)
** Transforming Macros into Functions on the CMakeLists files
** Test failures on QList (fancy templates)
** Build documentation issues.
* Class properties on dev
** Integrated, took some extra time.
* Error messages with __feature__
** Improvements overall related to the types.
* Bug fixing and Documentation
** Updating internal references
* Extra
** Participation in GNU Health Conference https://www.gnuhealthcon.org/2020-online/index.html


==== 22. October 2020 ====
* Releases & Infra
* Qt 6 work
** Commercial LTS 5.15.6 should be out soon
* Refactoring shiboken2 for Qt 6
** 6.1.3 should be ready today/tomorrow
* Investigated [https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-1408 PYSIDE-1408], [https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-1410 PYSIDE-1410], no conclusions so far
** starting migration from distutils to setuptools.
* Implementation of class properties ready for review tomorrow, will be integrated in dev branch.
* Bugs
* Solving issue with the deprecated wheel.pep425tags
** OpenGL types issues working with macOS now (to test further examples)
* Updating documentation to include reference to new branches, build documentation, etc.
** Triaging
* QtWS20 Talk
** 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)


==== 15. October 2020 ====
==== 26. August 2021 ====


* Infra update
* Releases
** 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
** Commercial 5.15.6 LTS is being prepared.
** 5.15 will go to cherry-pick mode and 'dev' will become the default branch
** 6.1.3 might be delay a couple of days due to a couple of high prio bugs that were fixed.
*** This is motivated from the true_propery patches being merged
* Bugs
*** Some pending patches
** Fixing the OpenGL issues of missing GL* types
* Trying to enable QtConcurrent methods (some)
** Removing QtQuick classes that were blocking the CI
** what about Python-only alternatives like https://docs.python.org/3.8/library/concurrent.html
** Addressing errors on debug mode.
* Bug fixes
* Features
** uic 'things' to  review for 5.15
** Planning fixes for Nuitka to get a better support.
** 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 ====
====19. August 2021 ====


* Infra
* Bugs
** Timeouts maybe when the test_wheel hangs?
** Various fixes in four patches for Python 3.10
** Cache the wheels we install for the installation process, somehow.
** Bug from 2012 found in shiboken tests after three days debugging Python 3.10
* PYSIDE-827 Commands help
* Features
** Complicated refactoring, but it's waiting for review atm.
** Python 3.10 support is totally ready
* 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 ====
====12. August 2021====


* Infra
* Infra & Releases
** Still the 'usual' timeouts while installing Python requirements. Maybe we could fix this?
** Maintenance break
* Documentation
** Still looking into universal binary wheels (some tests failing)
** Access .qch documentations files offline - https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/QTWEBSITE-944
** Preparing new releases.
** Documentation fixes related to RST syntax and code snippets.
* Bugs
* Bug fixing
** Threading/lock issues with QInputDialog and QAbstractSocket
** [https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-31 PYSIDE-31] no news, postponed
** Stripping down shiboken installation files
** [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.
** Moving important new patches from dev to 6.1 (tricky due the changes we have in dev atm)
** PYSIDE-1019 Property almost completely rewritten to pass the Python tests. Almost done.
** Continuing the test of 3.10
** PYSIDE-1019 shiboken: It is also possible to have properties for projects not using the PySide2 extension
** Addressing new pyi issues
* Qt6 Port
** 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 ====
====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


* Infra
====29. July 2021====
** One strange error related to PYSIDE-1388
* Infra & Releases
** Trying to merge the change to test 3.8.1 on Windows too
** Universal binaries still in research
* Bug fixing spree
** Some errors were found on the CI debug configuration
** PYSIDE-1017
** COIN has some network issues.
** PYSIDE-1224
* Bugs
** PYSIDE-665
** Refactoring and small issues.
** PYSIDE-1388
** feature: fix the UIC switching problem
* Qt6 progress
** Documentation seems outdated in some places, so fix are coming.
** QML was working for some period
* Features
** Qt3D compiling
** https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-1605
* overloadID feature for typesystems (order of overloads)
** Removing signature loader files to integrate them into the module.
* 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 ====
====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


* 5.15.1 released
====15. July 2021====
* Qt 6 efforts
* Properties features submitted [https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-1019 PYSIDE-1019]
* Bug fixing efforts, provided work arounds or fixes for
** [https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-972 PYSIDE-972]
** [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 ====
* Infra & Releases
* 5.15.1 release waiting for final
** CI has some issues related to qtbase and Windows
** blog post about some features
* Bugs
* Try a new python version on the CI
** https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-535 Issues when transforming Macros to Functions, leaks were found
* Qt 6 efforts
** Fix memory leaks in shiboken
** Adding back the tools (uic/rcc)
** QMultiMap and QMultiHash was not properly handle (defaultdict) | behavioral change
** New feature shiboken overload order
*** Before it was a a normal dict, with the last value (all the other values were not preserved)
** Waiting for the properties features before moving 5.15 to cherry pick mode
* Features
** Major changes will get into dev as soon as we move 5.15 to cherry pick.
** https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-1252 support classmethods in signatures and properties (static methods become properties, and that's the relation with classmethods)
* Review repeated overloads from a Python point of view and remove the unnecesary ones.
** Adding QtDBus (QPendingReply is missing) and QtNetworkAuth modules
* PYSIDE-74 is fixed, and now every object will have a __ne__ and __eq__
** Tools like qdbusxml2cpp is not supported yet.
* testing:  Ensure that build dir precedes site-packages.
** Remote Objects getting some contributions.
* Writable properties is still in development, and closer to be done
** Refreshing QML code and good practices, adding new examples, etc
** what do we do with the internal pyside properties? TBD
** WIP qmlRegisterSingletonInstance and research on QML_NAMED_ELEMENT
* Akademy 2020 participation
** Improve docs: icons, style, content.
** GNU Health uses PySide2!
** Kirigami for Python users


==== 3. September 2020 ====
====08. July 2021====
* Infra update
** libclang 10 issue, we need a shared library, but the latest had static only.
*** Using the QtCreator one solved the issue.
** snapshots wheels broken atm
** Plan for 5.15.1
* True properties
** make static properties needed around 10% of the cases, it collides with limited api.
** new corner case for non-standard properties.
** Use in runtime the information from the Meta Object.
* Bug fixes
** 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 ====
* Infra & Releases
* Infra update
** Planning next releases.
** Waiting on confirmation for 5.15.1 release
* Bugs
** Discard mingw config
** 1334 .connect returns now a bool to verify the connection.
** Include a Linux 64bit Python 3.8.x config
** 1613 logging level
* True property features
** 1618 session manager issue (Qt bug)
** Basic implementation in-place with shiboken support.
** 1619 discussion on accepting the QSettings.value (still in progress)
** Tackling errors from the parser
* Features
** The data from ApiExtractor should be improved
** lupdate now has support for Python, and will be available in 6.2 (+ docs)
** 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.
** adding new API for WebEngine
* Bugs fixing
** gettext tutorial
** Many old bugs closed, due to being fixed or invalid in newer versions.
** pathlib support continues (QUrl)
** Prioritization plan for some of the remaining
** PyPy compatibility: still addressing the issues related to the type extensions.
** Important bug for the project https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-478 we need a better error propagation.
** ApiExtractor: add classmethod attribute to add-function for tr()
* lupdate compatibility delayed
** Attempting to expose QtDBus
* QML interaction
** Improving docs and tutorials
** ListProperty was heavily improved, adding missing argument options and checks.
** 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.


==== 20. August 2020 ====
====24. June 2021====
* Infra update
* Feedback from Akademy 2021 sessions
** Fix for virtualenv problems on RedHat.
** Tutorials on the Designer process, and other process that might be simple for Qt users, but unknown for Python users.
** Speed issues on the CI
** More examples on the QML - Python interaction.
** we still require a libclang update.
** Improve documentation
** Waiting for a date for 5.15.1
** Qt Creator support
* (in progress) https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-1019 (features properties)
** Template tool
* (in progress) https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-1328 (static/dyn methods)
* Release and Infra
* Qt6 changes
** 6.1.2 coming next week.
** QStringRef replacement by QStringView
* Bugs
** Fixing broken tests
** PYSIDE-131 in progress, related to translation with automatic language tools.
* Discussion around https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-1363
* Features
** We could generate manylinux2014 wheels.
** Trying to address issues related to PyPy (type declaration, and extension structure)
* Fixed some issues with ListProperty on the QML integration :)
** Add new qml functions (update missing binding)
** Multimedia changes
** WebEngine is partially in the repo.


==== 13. August 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====
** dev is still open for direct submit.
* Release and Infra
** libclang 10 update keeps waiting fixes to qttools.
** Commercial LTS release 5.15.5 rescheduled for next week.
** The python3.8 test will get amended later today.
** Trying to build 6.2, figuring differences between CentOS and RH (ldd issues)
* Bug fixing
** Discussion to improve commercial offering installation.
** Missing classes
* Bugs
** 3D related
** https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-1593 pyi issue (and improvement too)
** pyi incomplete
** Fixing issues related to --/++ operators
** QmlComponent deadlock
* Features
* (in progress) Qt Property access
** https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-1499 pathlib support (ready for review)
** Issues with the binding manager (functions inside properties)
** Adding many missing classes, enums, etc.
** The feature switching needs to be slower (no features, snake_case, etc)
** Adapting QtMultimedia new module and API
* Planned work on 3.9 compatibility
** Discussion on Handling native interfaces.
* QML ListProperty in dev is broken
* Events
** Akademy participation (external talk)
** Qt Contributor Summit https://wiki.qt.io/Qt_Contributors_Summit_2021_-_Program


==== 6. August 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====
** libclang versioning issues (we need 8+, we have 6)
** Adding Python 3.8.1 for Python (needs review)
* Research for commercial opportunities
* (in progress) Qt Property access
** prototype waiting for review
** some complications with inherited attributes/properties
** Class properties are a complication, since we need to make a difference with instance properties.
* (in progress) Shiboken initialization more verbose
** for Freezing tools.
* Check for signature/stubs documentation.


==== 30. 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


* No meeting
====20. May 2021====


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


* Infra update
====13. May 2021====
** 5.15 and dev -> Python 3.8.1 (Windows) => Working
** Some issues with some images.
* (needs review) Selectable features
** New example to test
** AL Completion issues
** signal/slots will remain camelCase at the moment.
* (in progress) Python 3.9 compatibility
** Signature module requires some work.
* (in progress) Qt 6 porting
** Issues with templates in Qt6
** QByteArrayView might be an issue
** Documentation needs qttools, it might work with cmake/qt6
* (in progress) QML interaction
** qmlRegisterSingletonType ready
** qmlRegisterUncreatableType is the next step


==== 16. July 2020 ====
* No meeting due to holiday
* Bugs
** PYSIDE-1566 Designer plugins don't work on macOS - solved & checked in
** PYSIDE-1564 QObject does not support cooperative multiple inheritance
*** Problem isolated, in progress (needs quite some change)
** - Signal's connect/disconnect issues in progress.
* Features
** generic generate_pyi.py - https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-1415 waiting for check-in
** - PYSIDE-1436 Support Python 3.10 - some progress
** - pathlib in progress - https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-1499
** - PyPy compatibility stalled - https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-535


* Infra update
====06. May 2021====
** Updates on the Windows VM template to get some optimization.
* Infra & Release
** Getting Python 3.8.1 on Windows to test the latest minor version.
** 6.1 postponed for next Thursday
* (in progress) Selectable features
*** Reverting NumPy integration (made it experimental feature, due to problem with shared library)
** COIN issues after the history log deletion (prune)
*** Qt Designer Plugin (not compatible with Limited API)
** Issues with the initialization on scriptableapplication (patch on gerrit)
*** Update changelog
* (in progress) PySide 6
*** Cherry pick exec related changes.
** Progress being done in Windows and macOS
*** oss/6.1 tqtc/6.1 (to be created)
* QML update (on dev -> Qt6)
* Bugs
** Removed the limit to 50 types https://codereview.qt-project.org/c/pyside/pyside-setup/+/307424
** PYSIDE-1404 improvements
** qmlRegisterSingletonType patch waiting for review https://codereview.qt-project.org/c/pyside/pyside-setup/+/307908
** 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.


==== 9. July 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====
** 5.14 issues related to virtualenv (but 5.14.2 works)
* Infra & Release
** dev is open for direct merges.
** 6.0.4 release was postponed, but we are on time.
** 5.14.2.3 macOS needs review to be released.
** 6.1 is on track.
** sdist packages WIP patch.
*** wheel name to support more than 1 binary for linux.
* Python 3.9b4 is out and we will try it out.
** Starting to try the new CI macOS machines.
* (in progress) Selectable features
* Bugs
** new corner cases were found, so they are being tackled.
** Minor fixes
* (in progress) access Qt properties directly
** https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-478
** decide which are the properties at runtime.
** https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-1409
** Maybe sources/pyside2/PySide2/global.h.in:41 can help
** https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-229
*** #define QT_ANNOTATE_ACCESS_SPECIFIER(a) __attribute__((annotate(#a)))
* Features
* (in progress) Qt6 compatibility
** Numpy QtChart compatibility
** Dealing with test failures.
** PyPy compatibility https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-535
** Issues OpenGLWidgets
** Looking into other module compatibilities
** We need to update the MetaType registration mechanisms to start working on QML register types
** Improve documentation for Property use in QML
** Improve the generate_pyi script


====15. April 2021====


==== 2. July 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.


* Infra Update
====08. April 2021====
** Timeouts issues, increasing it is not a solution.
* No meeting
** How to proceed with dev to use Qt6
*** merge without CI
*** clarify the yaml configuration
** 5.14.2.3 new release planned
* Selectable Features
** snake_case for camelCase names.
** (in progress) access Qt properties directly:
*** For 'label = QLabel("hello")', we could do 'label.text = "bye"' instead of using the 'label.setText("bye")'.
* Qt6 compatibility
** 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
====01. April 2021====
** Release of the second set of Windows 64bit wheels.
** Issues on the CI due to some internal issues, everything should be running soon.
* (in progress) from __future__ import newapi
** it's tricky to provide snake_case instead of camelCase
** issues with tp_getattro
** creating modified Python objects to replace the original types at runtime
* (in progress) from __future__ import newproperties
** Still many things to go
* PYSIDE-1282 pthread crash solved, and will be merge in 5.14
* Indentation fixes for generated code. Prefix adaptation for a standard format so it can be loaded in QtCreator (from warning and stuff)
* Qt for Python 6 is partially working in some platforms
** Still many missing modules,
** CMakeLists.txt files needs some love,
** Needs to adapt CI for the new dev branch
** Windows has some issues still :)
* libclang situation, are we sharing the same version for qdoc, qtcreator, qt, etc...?
** Need to check in case we decide to update
* Commercial wheels split progress


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


* Infra update
====25. March 2021====
** The new windows wheels still had some issues, it seems the latest are OK, and we would need to publish '_2' wheels.
** Some issues with macOS builds for 5.15.0
* Qt6 compatibility
** This is stopping the improvements in the QML integration story
** We need this merged before continuing https://codereview.qt-project.org/c/qt/qtbase/+/301979
* Merged a bug fix to 5.12 (the CI was not broken)
* (in progress) Qt6 Properties camelCase to lower_case
** Not a trivial task
** It's possible to rename dynamically functions, and other things.
** Containers needs to be taken care too
** Having more than one object with the same ID is challenging
** Issues with str based objects
* Fixed PYSIDE-1332, PYSIDE-1327
* (in progress) Commercial wheel are almost ready on Linux, later some changes for Windows and macOS are required.
* (in progress) WigglyWidget example almost there
* (in progress) New StyleSheet tutorial.
==== 11. June 2020 ====


* Infra Update
* Infra
** MSVC 2019 DLL issue with 5.15.0, we shipped a DLL that was too new. (https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-1323)
** Evaluation to change the wheel names to specify glibc version for 6.1
** A new set of wheels will be available for Windows users (without a modern MSVC)
** CI issues still with macOS
* QEnum implementation
* Features
** Waiting for review
** Refactoring examples (snake_case)
** Qt5 compatible
** Updating deployment docs.
** QFlag is also exposed
** PYSIDE-1523 Nuitka, support for compiled functions.
* Research: Qt6 Properties camelCase to lower_case
** PYSIDE-1415 make the generate_pyi more general
** https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-1019
** PYSIDE-1449 pathlib compatibility
* Started to fix missing types information: https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-1318
** Improvements on the documentation, tutorials, and examples.
* Fix memory leaks in property accesors (https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-1321),
** Enabling snippet translator into the doc building process.
* Fix code generation bugs (https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-1325)
* Bugs
* Incremental wheels
** Fix crash from the new Network components.
* Missing pyside2uic features
** Triage and some other fixes.
* Backports for 5.12
** PYSIDE-1502 Compiling pyside2 with build target does not result in PySide2 `support` module being installed
** Ask Gerrit admins
** PYSIDE-1524 warning related to sprintf
** Try one last patch.
** PYSIDE-1019 1038 hidden imports, properties, other fixes.
** There seems to be some problems with PyInstaller on macOS


==== 4. June 2020 ====
====18. March 2021====


* CI Update
* Infra
** Limited API reports work
** CI has been showing some issues. 12h timeouts for macOS.
** Improve integrations on macOS
** Soon to have 6.1 branch
* Documentation updates for Qt Assistant
** Synchronization of the commercial repository with latest Qt.
* PYSIDE-1257 cx_Freeze issues seems to be related to cx_Freeze itself.
* Features
* Q_ENUM and QFlag will be soon available.
** Improving commercial tools.
* New Shiboken example to expose a custom Qt Widget to Python
** Finding issues and getting ideas to improve the docs.
* loadUiType is back into PySide (relies on pyside2-uic on PATH)
** Using new qttools directory
* Other bug fixes.
** 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


==== 28. May 2020 ====
====11. March 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 ====
* Infra
* '''Holiday'''
** 6.0.2 is out
 
** 5.15.3 still pending
==== 14. May 2020 ====
** Trying to update dependencies for 6.1 (modules)
 
** auditwheel (research, optional)
* CI Updates
** COIN seems to be acting weird, but generally.
** 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 ====
* 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
* Features
** Commercial addons
** cleanup snippets and general things in shiboken
** Tutorials
** license changes for LTS
*** rcc
** Adding clarifications to the docs.
*** uic
** Discussion on the proper build processes.
*** QTranslator (*)
* Bugs
*** ...
** 1438 Visualization issue
** QtAssistant integration
** https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-1516
** loadUiType
** https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-1514 shiboken renaming causes an issue for copying files to the wheel.
** The new way of registering QML properties needs to be applied to the code base.
** Show the __feature__ issues on the traceback.
 
==== 30. April 2020 ====
* CI Updates
** Issues with pip upgrades
** Planning new Python versions for new configurations.
* 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
** QML interaction
** Q_ENUM and pickling SbkEnum
** Commercial Addons


==== 23. April 2020 ====
====5. 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 ====
*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


* Plan for 5.14.2-1 release
====25. February 2021====
* Research on Pickling support, PYSIDE-15
* Provided fix for PYSIDE-1267  related to efforts of exposing QScintilla
* Object dumper to help debugging python implementations
* Debugging options for the code model.
* pysideuic old functionality into the QUiTools module
** compileUI
** loadUiType
* Q_ENUM discussion


==== 9. April 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


* Most bugs reported in 5.14.2 are fix on 5.14
====18. February 2021====
** Preparing the process for the release of 5.14.2-1
** 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 ====
*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.


* 5.14.2 is out:
====11. February 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
**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


* 5.14.2 Release
====4. 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
**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


* 5.14.2 Release preparations
====28. January 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 ====
*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 Status
====21. January 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 ====
*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 Update
====14. January 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 ====
*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 Updates
====7. 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 ====
 
* CI Updates
** 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 ====
 
* CI updates
** 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 ====
 
* CI status and issues with the Qt provisioning 5.12
** 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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