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==2021==
==2022==
 
=== 16. December 2021 ===


===30. June 2022===
* General
* General
** Most of the team will be on vacations starting from next week
** New team member will start on Friday
** Intern interview next week
** Experience improvements
*** Add note to Qt Creator Wizard
*** Video tutorials
*** Survey to understand
** Designer icons (create SVGs, can we use them?)
* Infra & Releases
* Infra & Releases
** Re-enable RTA testing for PySide
** dev is now 6.4
** 6.2.2.1 was released
** precheck on gerrit requires 'full' when the dialog is opened
** 3.10 CI tests being explored
** Source of 5.15.6 to be release soon.
** TODO: 5.15, 62 wheel name adapt
* Bugs & Features
* Bugs & Features
** PYSIDE-1431 follow up issue related to signal instance comparison (multiple inheritance)
** 1970 slots issue still in progress, seems to be tricky.
** PYSIDE-1713 discussion on the signal instance implementation
** Continuing improving the cross compiling story
** PYSIDE-229 multiple inheritance issue with signals.
** PyEnum changes are still in the work.
** 1736 QQmlApplication engine load signature issue with raw-strings
*** Dealing with defaults values and initialization
** Documenting shiboken examples
** 3.11 compatibility continues
** Improve example/documentation processes
** vectorcall support improved
** Tutorial on how to debug pyside application from c++ application
** Fix new numpy version 1.23
** Porting more tutorials (mimetypes, regexp)
** unique_ptr new example
** addressing old issues with qtmultimedia and missing handling of methods related to read/write data
** QSpatialAudio added
** WebAssembly research continues


=== 09. December 2021 ===
===23. June 2022===
* General
** Bug fixing week
* Infrastructure
** New release for 6.2.2 due to a problem with the help() function -> 6.2.2.1
** 3.10.0 on Windows CI machines
** Research self-configuration to test PyPy in the future.
** Moving to qt dev branch in pyside dev branch in the following days.
* Bugs and Features
** Porting the audiosource example, exposes some issues on the qt multimedia module
** Porting the regular expression example
** Writing tutorial on how to debug pyside/python/qtcpp
** Fixing PYSIDE-1727 that left 6.2.2 help function unusable
** PyPy progress 66 -> 23 errors
** mypy PYSIDE-1318 was fixed, fixing Signals/Slot stubs, there are still a couple of things to do
** Improving the snippet translation steps, clickable graphs, and documentation in general.
** Refactor documentation generation process, as cmake target
** documenting samplebinding, and scriptableapplication
** PYSIDE-1726 was fixed due to the Vulkan headers being found
** Preparation for 6.3


=== 02. December 2021 ===
* Infra and Releases
* General
** NumPy 1.23 broke dev and PyPy :(
** A new developer joined the team :D
** We need to pin the other packages to avoid breakage
* Releases and Infra
** 6.2.5 commercial LTS to be released next week
** 6.2.2 to be released
** 5.15.6 source code to be released in the following weeks.
*** Little issues with multimedia TBC
*** wheel name adapt patch pending
** HW issues on macOS, and signing issues on the Windows configurations.
** Research: CI cores will be reduced in favor of finding available VMs faster.
** 3.10 configuration machine still in progress.
* Bugs & Features
* Commercial: we will remove support for Python 2.7 from 5.15.8 on
** [https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-1964 PYSIDE-1964] Improved messages for kwargs
* Bugs
** 6.4 preparations, API and documentation
** documentation resolution 1721 for snippets were broken, a new proposal for directory hierarchy was proposed.
** Initial work on Python 3.11
** fixing quick3d issues after this addition.
** [https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-1945 PYSIDE-1945] python to cpp conversion more updates
** stabilizing tests
** Strict/Forgiving PyEnum implementation was done
* Features
*** remove duplicated enums in outer scope but silently emulate them,
** split libpysideqml still in review
*** support the old Flags names to be used
** Issues with PyPy, discussing with PyPy devs. Writing ad-hoc debug tool to find more issues.
*** pretend externally a strict interface in .PYI and line completion
*** PyObject_dict incompatibility with set attribute directives, an undocumented issue. PyPy tries to mimic CPython behavior in some places, that might "look right" but it's not working.
** Bugs fixing 1968 1934 (type hinting issue) 1972 (snippet translate)
** Type hinting issues are still in progress
** trying to tackle the __slots__ issue 1970
*** for debug builds it break, but release only 3.10 breaks
** QVariant Enum issue 1974 168


=== 25. November 2021 ===
===16. June 2022===


* Releases and Infra
* Bug fixing week
** 6.2.2 next Tuesday
* QtDevCon
*** Quick3D and Universal wheels, Shared pointers None story.
** Meeting new people using PySide!
** OpenGL issue solved for setup.py wheel creation (cmake builds are affected)
** Talk went well :) got some feedback.
** Research on 3.10.0 on Windows
* Releases & Infra
* Bugs
** 5.15.10 Commercial released
** PYSIDE-1710 problematic to keep compatibility with Python 2
*** adapt wheel names
*** wheel tester fails, let us stop testing on python 2
** 6.3.1 to be released in the following days
** share smart pointer issues, comparison and nullptr
*** RPATH issue with designer.
** 1715 crash is fixed
** Issues with COIN
** gallery tool issue with a jpeg file
** Issues with Windows builds, they are broken on Windows PYSIDE-1962
* Features
* Features & Bugs
** documentation warnings
** non-limited api issue
** brushing up some opengl code
** continue with the Python Enum story
** creating a libpysideqml
*** issues wrt backward compatibility
** Continuing with the PyPy issues
** Issue with __slots__ on QObject classes (related to 3.10 on macOS and Linux in general)
** 1945 python to cpp conversion more updates
** research on 3.11 continues
** 1959 __mul__ operator
** 1930 QVariant on linux issue was fixed
** 1934 type hinting issues
* Extras
** New commercial portal account.qt.io
** Webinar today at 5pm CEST
** Don't forget 6.4 will drop python 3.6 support
===09. June 2022===


==== 18. November 2021 ====
* Next week is Bug Fixing Week
* Infra & Releases
** commercial LTS 5.15.10 to be released
** 6.3.1 to be release next week
** Changing the python version on windows is generating new errors.
** CI times are too long, so there is some plan to improve the waiting times.
* Bugs & Features
** Tooling research
** Issues with special application cases, QML threading and stuff
** Access violation on debug builds on Python 3.7, on COIN it was a release build and presented the issue as well
** Adding new QML files to the wheel (GraphicalEffects)
** Continue research with WebAssembly
** Discussion with pyqtgraph to improve API in favor of their module and performance.
** Continue work with Qt Enums as Python Enums. Code generation needs some fixes still. Python 3.6 is causing issues...mainly for debug mode and limited API.  


* Releases and Infra
** Issue with ubuntu 20.04 and libOpenGL.so.0 dependency seems to be in the pyside build and not Qt
** Using more cores in the CI now :)
** Apple Silicon story
*** Issues with python provisioning on the CI
** Research on the PyPy CI configuration
** 6.2.2 release at the end of the month
* Bugs
** Shared pointer comparison issue
** Another shared pointer type related issue
* Features
** QmlUncreatable decorator
** Adding Quick3D module (issue with qml registration)
** PyPy changes are getting closer to be fully working.


==== 11. November 2021 ====
===02. June 2022===
 
* Infra & Releases
* Releases and Infra
** Windows 10: 3.6 -> 3.7, and add Windows 11: 3.10
** Apple Silicon CI to be ready soon
** Signing binaries on Windows is time consuming
** Windows CI machines slowness to be addressed
** 6.2 Commercial LTS close to 6.3.1 OSS release.
** To enable Python 3.10 in a CI configuration
* Bugs & Features
** Research about adding PyPy as a CI configuration
** PYSIDE-1731 signatures issues related to QFlags
* Bugs
** PYSIDE-1760 flake8 fixtures broke pyside builds, because it had some effect regarding the replacement of distutils by setuptools.
** PYSIDE-1520 (related 1675) handling slots type hints
** PyEnum improvements, adding them in the enclosing scopes.
* Features
** Continue the research on the deployment story
** Standard containers
** PYSIDE-1930 QVariant issues
** Properly handling sets between C++ and Python
** PYSIDE-1939 Crashes related to return value from shiboken heuristics
** Adding new QML references examples and new Decorators (still in research)
** The project now adopted SDPX licensing (2 lines instead of a wall of text)
** Planning restructuring of libpyside to not be qml dependant
** PYSIDE-1947 data() and constData() from QAudioBuffer
** Move to Python enum: Roadmap is fixed, tests started
** PYSIDE-661 moving around messages, we still need to tackle some memory improvements.
** PyPy, finding new things and discuss with the team.
** Documentation updates
*** Improved the pending failing test by fixing a issue on PyCFunction (99 before, 76 to go)


==== 4. November 2021 ====


* Releases and Infra
===26. May 2022===
** 5.15 commercial LTS problems were solved.
* Holiday
** Apple Silicon wheels still in progress
*** changing the way we provision Python on the CI
** Directory structure for snapshot (internal) installation
* Features
** default expr handling fixes
** memory leak on the keyword arguments handling fixed
** Default templates for containers in progress
** PyPy changes in the progress, learning by doing.
*** Finding new issues on both sides, getting in touch with pypy team
* Bugs
** Issues with the latest MSVC2019 updates are fixed (typedefs)
** Issues found related QSet and set/list transformation
** PYSIDE-1670 singleShot -> single_shot function/property
** Improving the signature module system
** Enums of PySide are still in C++, but they could be moved to Python.


==== 28. October 2021 ====
===19. May 2022===


* Releases and Infra
** CI is under maintenance
** 6.2.1 released
** Commercial LTS 5.15.7 to be released
*** merge from lts to commercial
* Features
** PYSIDE-535: PyPy compatibility, object lifecycles differences with CPython, managed to solve other errors. Removed lld regression. Currently solving Signal&Slots problems. Checking large patches for using pypy as a build target. Py_FromSpect implementation still missing.
** Default function arguments qualifications in progress
** PYSIDE-1666 Container Templates for shiboken
* Bugs
** PYSIDE-1669: addPixmap str arguments
** PYSIDE-1675: mypy compatibility, improvement on the error messages for generic types.
** PYSIDE-1670: __feature__: handle properties with function overloads
** PYSIDE-1431: equality check of some signal/instances fails
** PYSIDE-1695: Flags comparison issue
** PYSIDE-1697: Memory leak
==== 21. October 2021 ====
* General
** QtWS Talk: Hybrid Qt Development: boosting your projects with Python https://www.qt.io/qtws21
* Infra & Releases
* Infra & Releases
** 6.2.1 release is coming
** 5.15.5 source code ready to be released
** universal wheels might come in later versions.
** 6.3.1 delayed to mid-June
** Discussion on incremental wheels to install more things on site-packages/PySide6
** 6.2.4 was the last OSS 6.2 release
** Performance issues on the CI were fixed
* Bugs & Features
* Bugs
** 1905 specify free functions in Shiboken
** PYSIDE-1691 Adding Cbor
** move the error messages to libshiboken
** Complementation for Opaque Containers
** 1932 QEnum issues
* Features
** Starting research on webassembly
** PyPy compatibility work continues
** Continue research on improve our deployment
** MyPy compatibility work continues
story
** Add bluetooth scanner example
** Improve timeouts related to testing
** Enum story is ready for review, additional improvements might come in the future. This feature will be optional before 6.4, and from 6.4 on it will be mandatory (Using Python Enum instead of our own Enum implementation)
** PyIndex_Check issue


==== 14. October 2021 ====
===12. May 2022===


* General
** Bug fixing week
** New contributors from Hacktoberfest
* Infra & Releases
* Infra & Releases
** 6.2.1 release is approaching
** 5.15.4 sources should be released soon, preparing 5.15.5
** We need to setup a new provisioning for Apple Silicon wheels.
** Special pypy branch for nightly integrations
** Splitting wheels research.
* Bugs & Features
* Bugs
** 1898 QMetaObject invokeMethod added Q_ARG
** PYSIDE-1685 Font families
** 1919 Crash was fixed
** Addressing flaky tests
** 1912 context properties, adding missing API
** PYSIDE-656 raising exceptions related to mouse events
** NumPy dependencies are moved to Shiboken (pyqtgraph discussion)
** PYSIDE-1669 QIcon.addPixmap issue with argument 'str'
** General refactoring
* Features
** 1912 unique_ptr issues
** Implicit conversion in Shiboken
** 1878 pyside-qml tool to quickly prototype/view qml code
*** Get list of invalid usages from wrappers
** Research on support for new platforms
*** From 6.3/6.4 enable the option.
** Attempting to use PyTest instead of unittest
** Render control example
** Missing PyIndex_Check in 3.7 issue
** PyPy compatibility work continues
** Improve mypy compatibility will continue
 
==== 07. October 2021 ====
 
* General
** Blog post published https://www.qt.io/blog/qt-for-python-release-6.2
** Progress regarding a better cross compilation story
** Apple Silicon wheels needs some testing
** PyPi wheel size issue due to macOS wheels having Universal Binaries and new modules
*** Thinking on how to generate wheels for intel and apple silicon without them being too large.
*** Maybe split the wheels into essential modules
*** Maybe create dependencies groups
** 2 more weeks until we move to use Qt dev on the CI
* Release and Infra
** COIN updates and some speed issues.
** Making bug-fix releases from LTS soon to follow the KDE Qt Free Software agreement.
* Features
** Signal & Slot tutorial to be available in 6.2.1, and hopefully more tutorials
** Refactoring and cleanup on the primitive types.
** Fixing PYSIDE-1673 and PYSIDE-1664
** Add qml reference example
** PYSIDE-535 PyPy development still continues
** PYSIDE-656 old issue found, that's related to PyPy development.
* Bugs
** Signals are missing from the Class documentation in 6.2.1
 
==== 30. September 2021 ====
 
* Release and Infra
** We expect a release on time with respect to Qt
** Release blog post almost ready
** M1 wheels are still in progress.
* Features
** Add section to https://wiki.qt.io/New_Features_in_Qt_6.2 to highlight features
** built-in types included into shiboken
** adding wstring support in shiboken, extending limited api a bit.
** Integrating PyPy related changes that don't affect Python functionality
* Bugs
** changelog tool using textwrap for better formatting
** adapting examples and other minor revisions.
** Working on Nuitka testing
 
==== 23. September 2021 ====
 
* Release and Infra
** Preparation for 6.2
* Features
** PyPy compatibility is still in progress due to unexpected complications.
** WebChannel module is in plus the markdowneditor example
** Built-in types improvements in shiboken
** Cleaning the old suppress messages from the build
** Examples and tutorials were added.
* Bugs
** QSurfaceDataArray issue when handling copies
 
==== 16. September 2021 ====


* Release & Infra
===5. May 2022===
** 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
* Infra & Releases
** Maintenance break
** Starting new commercial branch for 6.2 LTS, 6.2.4 was the last OSS 6.2 release.
** Still looking into universal binary wheels (some tests failing)
** Preparing new 5.15.4 OSS package (according to the KDE Free Qt Foundation)
** Preparing new releases.
* Bugs & Features
* Bugs
** Python 3.7 PyIndex_Check issue to be addressed in 6.2 and 6.3
** Threading/lock issues with QInputDialog and QAbstractSocket
** Research and improvements on the Raspberry Pi story
** Stripping down shiboken installation files
** QtWebEngine: Missing setCookieFilter and setNotificationPresenter
* Features
** Can't use category based logging from PySide
** Moving important new patches from dev to 6.1 (tricky due the changes we have in dev atm)
** Continue research on deployment story
** Continuing the test of 3.10
** 1880 DataVisualization + NumPy
** Addressing new pyi issues
** 1898 QMetaObject.invokeMethod with arguments not possible
** 1901 Enum "QVariantList" passed to Property breaks property datatype
** shiboken to generate deterministic includes
** Enum new implementation patch is mature to be included in dev and start additional testing
** Research on testing improvements


====5. August 2021====
===28. April 2022===
* 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====
* Bugs & Features
* Infra & Releases
** Fixed [https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-1895 PYSIDE-1895], strings with 0 chars.
** Universal binaries still in research
** Diagnosed [https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-1893 PYSIDE-1893], object deletion with lambdas.
** Some errors were found on the CI debug configuration
** Worked on [https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-1859 PYSIDE-1859], native Win handles
** COIN has some network issues.
** Continued [https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-1880 PYSIDE-1880] QDataVisualization
* Bugs
** String migration of the code according to [https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/QTBUG-98434 QTBUG-98434] and related cleanups
** Refactoring and small issues.
** Improved isolation between tests and __feature__ settings, reset() method implemented.
** feature: fix the UIC switching problem
** Migration to PyEnum [https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-1735 PYSIDE-1735] is now error-free:
** Documentation seems outdated in some places, so fix are coming.
*** qformlayout_test.py gives phantasy values when no elements exist. Python enums can't handle that.
* Features
** https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-1605
** Removing signature loader files to integrate them into the module.


====22. July 2021====
===21. April 2022===
* Infrastructure
** Work on OSX11/universal binaries
* Bugs
** https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-1629 QML crash
** Debugging https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-1626 (snakecase + uic)
** https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-1625 exec_ regression
** https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-1623 missing docs
** https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-1621 Windows problem fixed by removing temp files
** Debugging memory leaks
* Features
** Research on  https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-1605 (directly wrapping C++ containers instead of converting them)
** Prototype/Discuss: Remove signature loader completely from physical FS (6.2 I guess)
* Other
** Fixed up documentation for 6.2
** Fixed overload handling in shiboken due to https://codereview.qt-project.org/c/qt/qtbase/+/359671
 
====15. July 2021====


* Infra & Releases
* Infra & Releases
** CI has some issues related to qtbase and Windows
** 6.2.4 is the las OSS release, 6.2 LTS being prepared
* Bugs
** 6.3.x will continue as the new OSS release.
** https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-535 Issues when transforming Macros to Functions, leaks were found
** Issues from people having 6.2.4 and upgrading to 6.3.0. The recommendation is to uninstall the old version and install the new version. This is mainly to an issue we found while upgrading that files were removed, leaving no Qt modules available.
** Fix memory leaks in shiboken
* Bug & Features
** QMultiMap and QMultiHash was not properly handle (defaultdict) | behavioral change
** QDataVisualization + ItemModel request for data handling (performance discussion), issues seems to be on the C++ implementation of the module.
*** Before it was a a normal dict, with the last value (all the other values were not preserved)
** https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-1859 Windows handle classes issue
* Features
** Found some issues with previous setuptools versions on Linux
** https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-1252 support classmethods in signatures and properties (static methods become properties, and that's the relation with classmethods)
** 1890 fixing cmake build for the new __all__ resolution.
** Adding QtDBus (QPendingReply is missing) and QtNetworkAuth modules
** New Enum implementation for PySide is already in progress, it's aimed to be in place for 6.4 to avoid breaking existing code. Be aware, that there are things that are currently supported by a wrong implementation, and code adaptation will be required.
** Tools like qdbusxml2cpp is not supported yet.
** Improving tests overall (due to the enum changes)
** 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====
===14. April 2022===


* Infra & Releases
* Infra & Releases
** Planning next releases.
** 6.3 was released: https://www.qt.io/blog/qt-for-python-details-on-the-new-6.3-release
* Bugs
** 6.3 was branched
** 1334 .connect returns now a bool to verify the connection.
* Bugs & Features
** 1613 logging level
** Continue the research on qml plugins and deployment story
** 1618 session manager issue (Qt bug)
** Refactoring and improvements to the build_scripts
** 1619 discussion on accepting the QSettings.value (still in progress)
** Python Qt Enums in progress, still some hard-to-find issues to solve
* Features
** 1627 issue regarding QAction API related to QMenu
** lupdate now has support for Python, and will be available in 6.2 (+ docs)
** Shiboken refactorings
** adding new API for WebEngine
** 1883 QTest issues
** gettext tutorial
** 1880 Request for 3D ItemModel functionality -> added new examples
** pathlib support continues (QUrl)
** Smart pointers and std::optional support
** 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====
===7. April 2022===
* Infra & Releases
* Infra & Releases
** 6.1.2 ready to go out
** New commercial 5.15 releases, difficulties with libclang 12
** Trying CI debug configuration
** _Py_Mangle issues on >=5.15.4 to be included in 5.15.4 source packages (and others)
* Bugs
** Branching 6.3 in the next days.
** Documentation broken links, and improve Designer tutorials.
* Bugs & Features
** PYSIDE-1609 findChild fixed
** PYSIDE-1876 qmlparserstatus issue fixed
** PYSIDE-1370 QSharedMemory fixed
** Fix TOC doc issue and adapt new qtbase changes
** PYSIDE-131 Translations issues fixed (with the problem that we don't have lupdate support on PySide6)
** refactorings to reduce size of generated code
** QtSensors issues on the CI due to update solved.
** smartpointers improvements, adding tests and tuning implementation
* Features
** PYSIDE-1878 improving qml and python interaction (plugins)
** PYSIDE-535 PyPy Support still on going.
** Working on the new Qt Python Enums approach (will be a TP with a compile time option)
** Adding more missing classes.
** Improve some issues on 5.15.x regarding Python 3.10 compatibility (_Py_Mangle)
** Analysing deployment scenario for PySide applications.


====24. June 2021====
===31. March 2022===
* 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====
* Bugs & Features
* Release and Infra
** PYSIDE-187O fixed.
** Commercial LTS release 5.15.5
** Wheel size reduction - new flag --no-size-optimization - ready to merge.
** New Debug VM setup ready to test
** pyqmlscene  (starts with PySide6QmlPlugin) in the working. Requirements gathering from Qml team.  
** Testing new architecture to handle universal binaries on M1 machines
** shiboken6-genpyi was fixed (was not functional after the Python virtualization)
* Bugs
** adaptation of PySide6.__all__ after the wheel split, still a problem not understood
** [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.
** PYSIDE-1735: Use Python Enums to handle Qt Enum. Making fast progress.
** Seems like there is something going on with the --quiet options and log levels.
** PYSIDE-535: completing PyPy documentation to introduce the project for 6.3
** Cleaning old bugs that were invalid
** [https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-1874 PYSIDE-1874] SIGSEGV when accessing __doc__ of a Property fixed
* 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====
===24. March 2022===
* Release and Infra
** Commercial LTS release 5.15.5 rescheduled for next week.
** Trying to build 6.2, figuring differences between CentOS and RH (ldd issues)
** Discussion to improve commercial offering installation.
* Bugs
** https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-1593 pyi issue (and improvement too)
** Fixing issues related to --/++ operators
* Features
** https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-1499 pathlib support (ready for review)
** Adding many missing classes, enums, etc.
** Adapting QtMultimedia new module and API
** Discussion on Handling native interfaces.
* Events
** Akademy participation (external talk)
** Qt Contributor Summit https://wiki.qt.io/Qt_Contributors_Summit_2021_-_Program


====03. June 2021====
*Infra & Releases
* Release and Infra
**6.2.4 was released
** Qt 6.1.1 scheduled for Friday (might be release next week)
**5.15.3 sources were updated to include pyside2-tools, and 3.10 compatibility.
** Commercial LTS 5.15.5 scheduled for the 10th.
**We will replace 3.6.1 by 3.7.x to test on windows
** Research on M1 build on the CI
**Adding new set of wheels to the download.qt.io snapshots
*** Locally it works: https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-1535
*Bugs & Features
*** Wheels might be affect (universal binaries are too large)
**Research on reducing wheel sizes via compiling flags and other things.
** Debug build on Windows to be tested.
**REG PYSIDE-1870 still in progress
** The possibility of releasing Docker images is being addressed
**Fixing doc issues, and sphinx related changes.
* Bugs
**1862 top level cmake build fixed
** Smaller bugs (PYSIDE-1584, PYSIDE-1585 not reproduceable)
**1868 crash on frame buffer (factory function)
** Discussion finished https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-1567
**Adapting to changes in Qt/C++
** Issues with XML interface to Python https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-1588
**share_ptr handling refactoring to write independently of the platform
** Class properties fix and refined code.
**wheel_tester issue on macos was fixed (scriptableapplication building with qmake only), it uses cmake and ninja now.
** Multi-inheritance still in progress.
**Issue in pyside6 re-introduced an old issue: https://codereview.qt-project.org/c/pyside/pyside-setup/+/401438
* Features
**Continue with the work on Enums in PySide
** Small cleanups and fixes
**Improvements to the create wheel process
** 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====
===17. March 2022===


* Release and Infra
*General
** 5.15.5 LTS (Commercial only) release planned.
*Infra & Releases
** 6.1.1 to be release soon.
**6.2.4 release is ready to be out today.
** Debug build on Windows (using python_d.exe and pass '--debug' when building, and remove the '--limited-api=yes')
**LTS 5.15.3 source code will be re-uploaded due to missing pyside2-tools
** Research: M1 build CI testing
*Bugs & Features
* Features
**QmlExtension research for PySide projects
** Improvements to the general pyi generator, and features.
**Research for new ideas to improve PySide and Shiboken
** pathlib compatibility still in progress
**Stripping binaries a bit to reduce wheel size
** Shiboken documentation: unused code
**QtPropertyMap is not exposed
* Bugs
**Update the documentation (Signal/Slots, modules desc, and more)
** Multiple inheritance issues, when using explicit and implicit calls to parent constructors (super() vs Class)
**Replacing count() functions by size() internally.
** https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-1563 (QImage related)
**Improving the testing framework (special cases for apple silicon)
** https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-1573 (QML related)
**PYSIDE-1843: Continue fixing failing tests for PyPy
* Changelog policy
**Research: Improvements to Qt Enums to rely on Python Enums
** [Changelog] This class will act like..., to be used for important changes.
**Wheel splitting might need a small size increase on PyPi
* Research
** performance tests
** Tool: report new classes per Qt versions.
** Missing Qt API
** new structure cmake/build


====20. May 2021====
===10. March 2022===


* 6.2 considerations (checking on newly added modules, examples, tests)
*General
* Added textedit example
**Position still open and many candidates in the pipeline.
* Features
*Infra & Releases
** PYSIDE-1415 Make `generate_pyi.py` usable for any binding - checked in
**Python CI version updates: 3.8 (linux) 3.7 (win) mac (3.9)
** PYSIDE-1019 __feature__: Support generation of modified .pyi files - done, needs cleanup
**PyPy issues on the CI being addressed, almost fully functional.
* Bugs
**6.2.4 still waiting for Qt to be released.
** PYSIDE-1564 QObject does not support cooperative multiple inheritance
**5.15.3 source was released according to the KDE Free Qt Foundation
*** working patch written but wrong, the problem is much harder since we need to call __init__ along the MRO and handle keyword args.
***Sadly, it doesn't include the patches to be Python 3.10 compatible
** PYSIDE-229 Signal disconnect fails in multiple inheritance situation
*Bugs & Features
*** postponed until the above problem is solved since it voids all debugging done
**Research on new PySide features on-going, extra things, internals, and performance
**QtNfc module was added
**qFuzzyCompare issue was fixed
**Improvements on the shiboken containers parsing
**Compatibility with older python version and pypy tests
**QmlPropertyMap issue was fixed
**Still fixing tests for PyPy and new Qt builds
***New issues were found, but many were fixes. At the moment: 14 in Core, and 18 in all the modules
**New wheel structure being discussed: splitting the big wheels into at least two


====13. May 2021====
===3. March 2022===


* No meeting due to holiday
*General
* Bugs
*Infra & Releases
** PYSIDE-1566 Designer plugins don't work on macOS - solved & checked in
**6.2.4 ready to be released, but qt was postponed for 15.03.2022
** PYSIDE-1564 QObject does not support cooperative multiple inheritance
**PyPy CI builds are still being tested
*** Problem isolated, in progress (needs quite some change)
**Next week there will be a CI maintenance break
** - Signal's connect/disconnect issues in progress.
**Python versions: 3.6 (linux + win) 3.9 (mac) | 3.10 test win
* Features
***3.6 will be deprecated in 6.3, so we will change CI versions
** generic generate_pyi.py - https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-1415 waiting for check-in
***3.8 (win), 3.10 (x), 3.7 (x)
** - PYSIDE-1436 Support Python 3.10 - some progress
**6.3 branching still pending a few wheel modifications, and tags.
** - pathlib in progress - https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-1499
*Bug & Features
** - PyPy compatibility stalled - https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-535
**PyPy build on windows presented a few challenges, and PyPy issues were found and reported.
**pyi generation also had issues due to a virtualenv + windows configurations being wrong, regarding the import orders.
**Enum refactoring is still in progress.
**container conversion research
**1835 building 5.15 without limited api
**qml research on property values, and group properties will be fix as well
**research on new opportunities to improve PySide as a Python module
**re-working the wheel generation


====06. May 2021====
===24. February 2022===
* Infra & Release
** 6.1 postponed for next Thursday
*** Reverting NumPy integration (made it experimental feature, due to problem with shared library)
*** Qt Designer Plugin (not compatible with Limited API)
*** Update changelog
*** Cherry pick exec related changes.
*** oss/6.1 tqtc/6.1 (to be created)
* Bugs
** PYSIDE-1404 improvements
** Property docs - https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-1513
** __feature__ at the end - https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-1548
** Signal's connect/disconnect issues in progress.
* Features
** generic generate_pyi.py - https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-1415
** pathlib in progress - https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-1499
** PyPy compatibility in progress - https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-535
** Discussion on keyword-support arguments in shiboken - https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-1555
** Possible adoption of "/" in signatures.


====29. April 2021====
*General
* Infra & Release
*Infra & Releases
** Expected 6.0.4, 6.1, and 5.15.4(LTS) for next week.
*Bug & Feature
** Creating 6.1 soon
**PYSIDE-1824 BT issue was fixed
*** Enable macOS testing
**PYSIDE-1826 Image provider
*** Property documentation
**PYSIDE-1827 metatype slot pending (metacall handle improvements)
*** Adding glibc version to linux wheel
**Research on arguments conversion
* Bugs
**PYSIDE-1815 set modified parameter function (reddit example)
** Fixing documentation issues
**PYSIDE-1809 signature modules issues.
** https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-1425
**PYSIDE-1821 Byte handling changes
** New discoveries with https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-229 not so simple (memory related)
**Research on new ideas for the PySide module
** https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-1264 still pending.
**PYSIDE-1705 Property support in constructors (relation with __feature__)
* Features
**PYSIDE-1735 Python Enums to handle Qt Enums (prototypes)
** Refactoring in general (import *) stuff.
***PYSIDE-1731 mypy regression issue (related to enums)
** Cleaning and updating tests and examples
**PyPy work continues, focused on compatibility with the newest version (supporting python 3.9)
** Discussion on https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-1380


====22. April 2021====
* Infra & Release
** 6.0.4 release was postponed, but we are on time.
** 6.1 is on track.
*** wheel name to support more than 1 binary for linux.
** Starting to try the new CI macOS machines.
* Bugs
** Minor fixes
** https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-478
** https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-1409
** https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-229
* Features
** Numpy QtChart compatibility
** PyPy compatibility https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-535
** Looking into other module compatibilities
** Improve documentation for Property use in QML
** Improve the generate_pyi script


====15. April 2021====
===17. February 2022===


* Infrastructure
*General
** Setting on track the content of OSS and commercial wheels.
**New Documentation Engineer joined the Foundation Area.
** Qt addons distribution will change in 6.1 and 6.2, so we need to keep an eye on that.
*Infrastructure & Releases
** New macOS machines for the CI
**3.10.0 configuration to be tested
* Documentation update process to be improved.
**Research on improvements for the packages in download.qt.io
* Bugs
**Testing PyPy on the CI
** There were some problems with the default encoding and the doc build process (python version related)
**Python 3.6 will be deprecated in PySide 6.3 and removed in 6.4
** 1529 fixed, and other issues (QPointF), 1514 QPainter, 1503 QCharts.
*Bugs & Features
* Features
**Addressing compatibility with other deployment tools.
** Improving examples to use new features and refreshing the code base.
**QmlExtended QmlAttach will be available in 6.3
** Performance examples to compare C++ and Python
**PYSIDE-1812 cross build task custom clang options
** Reformatting some code base to use f-strings and warning
**Research with C++20 to build pyside, and vector call new API in 3.9+
** New tutorials in progress based on Model View
**PYSIDE-1765 PYSIDE-1763 __feature__ issues were fixed and working on providing support for property in constructors PYSIDE-1705 (a bit more difficult)
** Internal Qt Hackathon
**PYSIDE-1815 QtNetworkAuth.QAbstractOAuth is missing modifyParametersFunction/setModifyParametersFunction
*** Focused on integration with matplotlib (Performance discussion)
**PYSIDE-1821 Add support for std::byte
*** Scripting C++ applications.
**PYSIDE-1809 wrong name type annotation for setProperty() and property()


====08. April 2021====
===10. February 2022===
* No meeting


====01. April 2021====
*General
*Bugs & Features
**[https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-1806 PYSIDE-1806] CMake version check fixed
**[https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-1804 PYSIDE-1804] Big endian test failure fixed
**Work in progress to add further QML decorators
**[https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-1702 PYSIDE-1702] snake_case handling now does explicitly not touch user defined classes.
**[https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-1758 PYSIDE-1758] Leave the underscore variable alone in QApplication
**[https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-535 PYSIDE-535] Remove a disambiguation patch no longer needed
**[https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-1765 PYSIDE-1765] Widget subclass' minimumSizeHint not called with true_property
**Work in progress on: [https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-1753 PYSIDE-1753] setStyleSheet available even if snake_case (complex)


* Deployment story
===03. February 2022===
** 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====
*General
*Infra & Releases
**6.2.3 was released.
**Waiting for a scheduled CI break on Monday
**OSS packages for 5.15.3 source to be available soon.
*Bugs & Features
**Updating new Qt dev API (targeting 6.4)
**Adjusting a designer issue with a crash on views
**Improving examples: Old OpenGL API
**PYSIDE-1801 signal crash issue addressed
**PYSIDE-1804 QByteArray issue
**Improving QML: getting some issues with QML_ATTACHED
**Writing PyPy Documentation to explain motivation, changes, and usage.
**PyPy Compatibility:
***Got nice performance results with the working mandelbrot example
***Still working on some last tests that are not properly working.
**PYSIDE-1798 fixing enum issue
**Continue the work on the python-lsp issues on QtCreator


* Infra
===27. January 2022===
** 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====
*General
**Communicate issue with Apple Silicon and our wheels. There is a bug on Python so using limited API and creating wheels with Python 3.8, make them unusable for 3.6 and 3.7
*Infra & Releases
**6.2.3 to be release soon.
*Bugs & Features
**Qt Creator LSP issue has an initial solution
**Curating a list of new features for Shiboken
**Working on an issue related to help() function on top of custom modules
**PYSIDE-1057 memory leak in progress
**Fixing examples to be compatible with PyPy and addressing corner cases
**QPainter was transformed into a context manager
**Building pyside with PyPy 3.8 is possible (3.9 is still in alpha)
**Working on a new tree example
**1788 allow-thread issue with event functions
**Add threaded OpenGL example
**Add data()/constData() to OpaqueContainers
**Continue work on QML integration


* Infra
===20. January 2022===
** 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====
*General
*Infra & Releases
**6.2.3 release next week
**Waiting a bit before branching 6.3
*Bugs & Features
**QtCreator Python LSP issue to be worked on
**Continue with the research related to new Shiboken features.
**Fixing general bugs from support
**Adapting new API for 6.3
**Improving QML story with custom types
**PyPy compatibility is focused on making some last examples to work, some issues with PyPy are being found as well.


* Infra
===13. January 2022===
** 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
** 1438 Visualization issue
** https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-1516
** https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-1514 shiboken renaming causes an issue for copying files to the wheel.
** Show the __feature__ issues on the traceback.


====5. March 2021====
*Infra & Releases
**Maintenance in the CI, still a few things to be improved.
**New version of Gerrit is available as well.
**5.15.8 Commercial LTS was released
**5.15.2.1 to be release soon, special version with Python 3.10 support
*Bugs and Features
**PYSIDE-1755 Fixing issues with __code__ (related to slots)
**Improved documentation
**Looking for new features for Shiboken
**Working on improving the LSP story on QtCreator https://github.com/python-lsp/python-lsp-jsonrpc/issues/5
**PYSIDE-1764 suggestion on avoid the generation/wrapping of methods within objects.
**PYSIDE-1730 signal/method namespace crash, generated by old fixes on old bugs.
**Add capacity/reserve functions to OpaqueContainers
**QML references examples issues, to discover missing details on the qml interaction
**Clarifying the conversion rules on the typesystem: native, target
**PYSIDE-1768 and PYSIDE-1769 WebEngine issues were solved.
**uic missing imports
**PYSIDE-1751 equality test for signals is rewritten and working better
**QXYSeries: adding missing addons to enable methods


*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


====25. February 2021====
===06. January 2022===


*General Topics
*General
**Commercial 5.15.3 release next week.
**New bridge between Telegram <-> IRC
**6.0.2 release next week.
*Infra & Release
*Infra updates
**Planning 5.15.2 new release (5.15.2.1) to include Python 3.10 support.
**Keep an eye on the next Python releases.
**5.15.8 Commercial LTS to be release in the next couple of days.
*Features
**6.2.3 planned for 2022.01.18
**Documentation for the designer plugin
*Bugs & Features
**shiboken: c++ using directive
**PYSIDE-1755 __code__ inspection on slot connection is buggy (breaks, e.g. MagicMock testing)
**pathlib compatibility support discussion (initial implementation was discarded)
**Ported new examples QRegularExpression editor and MimeTypes
***Trying to discover all the methods that are related to paths.
**Research to get new Shiboken features
*Bugs
**Updating translations
**cx_Freeze issues in 6.0.0/1
**In progress enabling qmllint in pyside project thanks to an external tool
**Addressing signal issues for different use-cases, multiple inheritance
***There is a relation with PyPy issues as well
**PYSIDE-1760 Racing condition without virtual environments (preloading setuptools)
**true_property issues were solved.
**continue work to have a more modular pyside installation with more wheels
**research on manylinux compatibility


====18. February 2021====
==2021==
 
*General Topics
**Commercial LTS 5.15.3 release.
**DeveloperWeek conference talk by Corey: will mention Qt for Python.
*Infra Update
**TBD: Need of a new branch in qt5.git for the lts qt for python release.
*Features
**pathlib.Path (soon to be ready) and fspath support (difficult) in pyside
**__feature__ documentation
**Designer patches are done (we still need docs)
**documentation generation fixes.
**shiboken: general refactoring (constructors)
**doc: examples code in tabs
**doc: new ideas for tutorials and vocabulary.
 
====11. February 2021====
 
*General topics
**Issues with Pick-to: 5.15
**Discussion about the usage of pathlib
**Reduce linux wheel size by not including .debug files.
*Infra update
**Timeouts in RHEL
**Preparing addons for 6.1
*Bugs
**Fixing many issues related to sphinx, and documentation in general.
*Features
**Moving the internal shiboken6.shiboken6.Shiboken to shiboken6.Shiboken 1497
**Will be finish today (Documentation about the __feature__ options) PYSIDE-1481
**(in progress) https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-1019 usage of constructor properties when enabling true_property
**Migration to pathlib in our code, and add support for fspath in our API, https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-1499
**Examples gallery embedded into the doc building process.
**Designer patch ready for review.
**Commercial tools on-going (icons discussion)
**(in progress) Error handling in shiboken
 
====4. February 2021====
 
*General topics
**6.0.1 release is on its way (the wheels will include the Qt3D modules and the ImageFormat plugins, which were missing in 6.0.0)
**Changelog structure in Qt vs what we have now
**Zombie 5.15 patches to be re-generated or cherry-picked to lts-5.15
*Infra update
**Maintenance update went better.
**COIN update is coming next week.
*Bugs
**(almost done) Shiboken internal namespace renaming.
**(done) https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-1476
**(done) https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-1478
**(done) https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-1487
**(in progress) https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-1481
*Features
**M2M Protocols modules rebase
**Shiboken UI rebase
**Custom Widget designer compatibility
**Snippet converter tool
 
====28. January 2021====
 
*Infra update
**'dev' we are missing tests on macOS (in progress). Qt5 bin on macOS 11, and running test on 10.15/13
**trying to build pyside on a custom Qt (with plugins/addons) oss and commercial
*Bugs
**Due to the shiboken module naming issue
***(in progress) https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-1481 __feature__ documentation
***(in progress) https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-1476 PySide Property declaration creates properties with the setter name of the function
***(in progress) https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-1347 constructors info in the stubs (other issues appeared)
***All the future fix related to stubs rely on the change
***there might be some issues with relying only on the install dir and not build.
*Features
**refactoring shiboken
**statmachine module rebirth
**designer patches to include custom widgets.
**enabling clang_options on shiboken
*Branching story
**lts-5.15 issues
***Fix pyside-setup/5.15 and do all the merges     (done)                                        
***Merge pyside-setup/5.15 into tqtc-pyside-setup/5.15    (done)                                        
***Create tqtc-pyside-setup/lts-5.15 from pyside-setup/5.15
***Close pyside-setup/5.15 Make the Pick-to bot merge from Pick-to: 5.15 -> tqtc/lts-5.15
**tqtc
***create tqtc/dev from oss/dev
***move manually the patches that added things for the commercial offering into tqtc/dev (shiboken ui, m2m protocols modules)
**Process to fix bugs
***push to oss/dev Pickt-to: 5.15 (this will go to lts-5.15)
***before release we push oss/dev to tqtc/dev
 
====21. January 2021====
 
*Infra update
**'dev' branch seems to be the only broken (maybe 5.15)
**Provisioning is affected
**need to create lts-5.15 branch for commercial releases
**WinRT is broken (at a Qt/CI level)
*Bug fixes
**https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-1458 Discussion about macOS symlinks
**(in progress) https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-1481 __feature__ documentation
**(in progress) https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-1476 PySide Property declaration creates properties with the setter name of the function
**(in progress) https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-1347 constructors info in the stubs (other issues appeared)
*Features
**Rename internal shiboken import: 'from shiboken6 import shiboken6 as Shiboken' -> 'from shiboken6 import Shiboken'
***Both options in 6.1,
***Only 'from shiboken6 import Shiboken' from 6.2 on.
**Designer plugin: set environment in the launcher script (instead of the rpath option)
**Removing extra QtCharts namespace (it  was removed in Qt) -> QtDataVisualization?
***Externals helping the migration process.
**https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-1477 clang options for shiboken cross build
*Starting work on new tutorials and applications (Data Science and visualization)
 
====14. January 2021====
 
*Qt Bug fixing week
*Infra update
**Missing 5.15 merge to tqtc
*Bug fixes
**https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-1470 fixed
**https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-1347 in progress
*Features
**Contacting people at other IDEs groups to provide a better PySide support. (to create a user story)
**NumPy support to accept numpy.array as 'some' Qt types
**Designer plugin works continues (needs libshiboken) https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-1455
*Webinar ideas
**__feature__ and Python properties
**Interaction with other modules
 
====7. January 2021====


*Infra update
*[[Qt for Python Development Notes 2021]]
**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


==2020==
==2020==

Revision as of 08:45, 30 June 2022

2022

30. June 2022

  • General
    • New team member will start on Friday
    • Intern interview next week
    • Experience improvements
      • Add note to Qt Creator Wizard
      • Video tutorials
      • Survey to understand
    • Designer icons (create SVGs, can we use them?)
  • Infra & Releases
    • dev is now 6.4
    • precheck on gerrit requires 'full' when the dialog is opened
    • Source of 5.15.6 to be release soon.
    • TODO: 5.15, 62 wheel name adapt
  • Bugs & Features
    • 1970 slots issue still in progress, seems to be tricky.
    • Continuing improving the cross compiling story
    • PyEnum changes are still in the work.
      • Dealing with defaults values and initialization
    • 3.11 compatibility continues
    • vectorcall support improved
    • Fix new numpy version 1.23
    • unique_ptr new example
    • QSpatialAudio added
    • WebAssembly research continues

23. June 2022

  • Infra and Releases
    • NumPy 1.23 broke dev and PyPy :(
    • We need to pin the other packages to avoid breakage
    • 6.2.5 commercial LTS to be released next week
    • 5.15.6 source code to be released in the following weeks.
      • wheel name adapt patch pending
    • Research: CI cores will be reduced in favor of finding available VMs faster.
  • Bugs & Features
    • PYSIDE-1964 Improved messages for kwargs
    • 6.4 preparations, API and documentation
    • Initial work on Python 3.11
    • PYSIDE-1945 python to cpp conversion more updates
    • Strict/Forgiving PyEnum implementation was done
      • remove duplicated enums in outer scope but silently emulate them,
      • support the old Flags names to be used
      • pretend externally a strict interface in .PYI and line completion
    • Bugs fixing 1968 1934 (type hinting issue) 1972 (snippet translate)
    • trying to tackle the __slots__ issue 1970
      • for debug builds it break, but release only 3.10 breaks
    • QVariant Enum issue 1974 168

16. June 2022

  • Bug fixing week
  • QtDevCon
    • Meeting new people using PySide!
    • Talk went well :) got some feedback.
  • Releases & Infra
    • 5.15.10 Commercial released
      • adapt wheel names
    • 6.3.1 to be released in the following days
      • RPATH issue with designer.
    • Issues with COIN
    • Issues with Windows builds, they are broken on Windows PYSIDE-1962
  • Features & Bugs
    • non-limited api issue
    • continue with the Python Enum story
      • issues wrt backward compatibility
    • Issue with __slots__ on QObject classes (related to 3.10 on macOS and Linux in general)
    • 1945 python to cpp conversion more updates
    • research on 3.11 continues
    • 1959 __mul__ operator
    • 1930 QVariant on linux issue was fixed
    • 1934 type hinting issues
  • Extras
    • New commercial portal account.qt.io
    • Webinar today at 5pm CEST
    • Don't forget 6.4 will drop python 3.6 support

09. June 2022

  • Next week is Bug Fixing Week
  • Infra & Releases
    • commercial LTS 5.15.10 to be released
    • 6.3.1 to be release next week
    • Changing the python version on windows is generating new errors.
    • CI times are too long, so there is some plan to improve the waiting times.
  • Bugs & Features
    • Tooling research
    • Issues with special application cases, QML threading and stuff
    • Access violation on debug builds on Python 3.7, on COIN it was a release build and presented the issue as well
    • Adding new QML files to the wheel (GraphicalEffects)
    • Continue research with WebAssembly
    • Discussion with pyqtgraph to improve API in favor of their module and performance.
    • Continue work with Qt Enums as Python Enums. Code generation needs some fixes still. Python 3.6 is causing issues...mainly for debug mode and limited API.


02. June 2022

  • Infra & Releases
    • Windows 10: 3.6 -> 3.7, and add Windows 11: 3.10
    • Signing binaries on Windows is time consuming
    • 6.2 Commercial LTS close to 6.3.1 OSS release.
  • Bugs & Features
    • PYSIDE-1731 signatures issues related to QFlags
    • PYSIDE-1760 flake8 fixtures broke pyside builds, because it had some effect regarding the replacement of distutils by setuptools.
    • PyEnum improvements, adding them in the enclosing scopes.
    • Continue the research on the deployment story
    • PYSIDE-1930 QVariant issues
    • PYSIDE-1939 Crashes related to return value from shiboken heuristics
    • The project now adopted SDPX licensing (2 lines instead of a wall of text)
    • PYSIDE-1947 data() and constData() from QAudioBuffer
    • PYSIDE-661 moving around messages, we still need to tackle some memory improvements.
    • Documentation updates


26. May 2022

  • Holiday

19. May 2022

  • Infra & Releases
    • 5.15.5 source code ready to be released
    • 6.3.1 delayed to mid-June
    • 6.2.4 was the last OSS 6.2 release
  • Bugs & Features
    • 1905 specify free functions in Shiboken
    • move the error messages to libshiboken
    • 1932 QEnum issues
    • Starting research on webassembly
    • Continue research on improve our deployment

story

    • Improve timeouts related to testing
    • Enum story is ready for review, additional improvements might come in the future. This feature will be optional before 6.4, and from 6.4 on it will be mandatory (Using Python Enum instead of our own Enum implementation)
    • PyIndex_Check issue

12. May 2022

  • Infra & Releases
    • 5.15.4 sources should be released soon, preparing 5.15.5
    • Special pypy branch for nightly integrations
  • Bugs & Features
    • 1898 QMetaObject invokeMethod added Q_ARG
    • 1919 Crash was fixed
    • 1912 context properties, adding missing API
    • NumPy dependencies are moved to Shiboken (pyqtgraph discussion)
    • General refactoring
    • 1912 unique_ptr issues
    • 1878 pyside-qml tool to quickly prototype/view qml code
    • Research on support for new platforms
    • Attempting to use PyTest instead of unittest
    • Missing PyIndex_Check in 3.7 issue

5. May 2022

  • Infra & Releases
    • Starting new commercial branch for 6.2 LTS, 6.2.4 was the last OSS 6.2 release.
    • Preparing new 5.15.4 OSS package (according to the KDE Free Qt Foundation)
  • Bugs & Features
    • Python 3.7 PyIndex_Check issue to be addressed in 6.2 and 6.3
    • Research and improvements on the Raspberry Pi story
    • QtWebEngine: Missing setCookieFilter and setNotificationPresenter
    • Can't use category based logging from PySide
    • Continue research on deployment story
    • 1880 DataVisualization + NumPy
    • 1898 QMetaObject.invokeMethod with arguments not possible
    • 1901 Enum "QVariantList" passed to Property breaks property datatype
    • shiboken to generate deterministic includes
    • Enum new implementation patch is mature to be included in dev and start additional testing
    • Research on testing improvements

28. April 2022

  • Bugs & Features
    • Fixed PYSIDE-1895, strings with 0 chars.
    • Diagnosed PYSIDE-1893, object deletion with lambdas.
    • Worked on PYSIDE-1859, native Win handles
    • Continued PYSIDE-1880 QDataVisualization
    • String migration of the code according to QTBUG-98434 and related cleanups
    • Improved isolation between tests and __feature__ settings, reset() method implemented.
    • Migration to PyEnum PYSIDE-1735 is now error-free:
      • qformlayout_test.py gives phantasy values when no elements exist. Python enums can't handle that.

21. April 2022

  • Infra & Releases
    • 6.2.4 is the las OSS release, 6.2 LTS being prepared
    • 6.3.x will continue as the new OSS release.
    • Issues from people having 6.2.4 and upgrading to 6.3.0. The recommendation is to uninstall the old version and install the new version. This is mainly to an issue we found while upgrading that files were removed, leaving no Qt modules available.
  • Bug & Features
    • QDataVisualization + ItemModel request for data handling (performance discussion), issues seems to be on the C++ implementation of the module.
    • https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-1859 Windows handle classes issue
    • Found some issues with previous setuptools versions on Linux
    • 1890 fixing cmake build for the new __all__ resolution.
    • New Enum implementation for PySide is already in progress, it's aimed to be in place for 6.4 to avoid breaking existing code. Be aware, that there are things that are currently supported by a wrong implementation, and code adaptation will be required.
    • Improving tests overall (due to the enum changes)

14. April 2022

  • Infra & Releases
  • Bugs & Features
    • Continue the research on qml plugins and deployment story
    • Refactoring and improvements to the build_scripts
    • Python Qt Enums in progress, still some hard-to-find issues to solve
    • 1627 issue regarding QAction API related to QMenu
    • Shiboken refactorings
    • 1883 QTest issues
    • 1880 Request for 3D ItemModel functionality -> added new examples
    • Smart pointers and std::optional support

7. April 2022

  • Infra & Releases
    • New commercial 5.15 releases, difficulties with libclang 12
    • _Py_Mangle issues on >=5.15.4 to be included in 5.15.4 source packages (and others)
    • Branching 6.3 in the next days.
  • Bugs & Features
    • PYSIDE-1876 qmlparserstatus issue fixed
    • Fix TOC doc issue and adapt new qtbase changes
    • refactorings to reduce size of generated code
    • smartpointers improvements, adding tests and tuning implementation
    • PYSIDE-1878 improving qml and python interaction (plugins)
    • Working on the new Qt Python Enums approach (will be a TP with a compile time option)
    • Improve some issues on 5.15.x regarding Python 3.10 compatibility (_Py_Mangle)

31. March 2022

  • Bugs & Features
    • PYSIDE-187O fixed.
    • Wheel size reduction - new flag --no-size-optimization - ready to merge.
    • pyqmlscene (starts with PySide6QmlPlugin) in the working. Requirements gathering from Qml team.
    • shiboken6-genpyi was fixed (was not functional after the Python virtualization)
    • adaptation of PySide6.__all__ after the wheel split, still a problem not understood
    • PYSIDE-1735: Use Python Enums to handle Qt Enum. Making fast progress.
    • PYSIDE-535: completing PyPy documentation to introduce the project for 6.3
    • PYSIDE-1874 SIGSEGV when accessing __doc__ of a Property fixed

24. March 2022

  • Infra & Releases
    • 6.2.4 was released
    • 5.15.3 sources were updated to include pyside2-tools, and 3.10 compatibility.
    • We will replace 3.6.1 by 3.7.x to test on windows
    • Adding new set of wheels to the download.qt.io snapshots
  • Bugs & Features
    • Research on reducing wheel sizes via compiling flags and other things.
    • REG PYSIDE-1870 still in progress
    • Fixing doc issues, and sphinx related changes.
    • 1862 top level cmake build fixed
    • 1868 crash on frame buffer (factory function)
    • Adapting to changes in Qt/C++
    • share_ptr handling refactoring to write independently of the platform
    • wheel_tester issue on macos was fixed (scriptableapplication building with qmake only), it uses cmake and ninja now.
    • Issue in pyside6 re-introduced an old issue: https://codereview.qt-project.org/c/pyside/pyside-setup/+/401438
    • Continue with the work on Enums in PySide
    • Improvements to the create wheel process

17. March 2022

  • General
  • Infra & Releases
    • 6.2.4 release is ready to be out today.
    • LTS 5.15.3 source code will be re-uploaded due to missing pyside2-tools
  • Bugs & Features
    • QmlExtension research for PySide projects
    • Research for new ideas to improve PySide and Shiboken
    • Stripping binaries a bit to reduce wheel size
    • QtPropertyMap is not exposed
    • Update the documentation (Signal/Slots, modules desc, and more)
    • Replacing count() functions by size() internally.
    • Improving the testing framework (special cases for apple silicon)
    • PYSIDE-1843: Continue fixing failing tests for PyPy
    • Research: Improvements to Qt Enums to rely on Python Enums
    • Wheel splitting might need a small size increase on PyPi

10. March 2022

  • General
    • Position still open and many candidates in the pipeline.
  • Infra & Releases
    • Python CI version updates: 3.8 (linux) 3.7 (win) mac (3.9)
    • PyPy issues on the CI being addressed, almost fully functional.
    • 6.2.4 still waiting for Qt to be released.
    • 5.15.3 source was released according to the KDE Free Qt Foundation
      • Sadly, it doesn't include the patches to be Python 3.10 compatible
  • Bugs & Features
    • Research on new PySide features on-going, extra things, internals, and performance
    • QtNfc module was added
    • qFuzzyCompare issue was fixed
    • Improvements on the shiboken containers parsing
    • Compatibility with older python version and pypy tests
    • QmlPropertyMap issue was fixed
    • Still fixing tests for PyPy and new Qt builds
      • New issues were found, but many were fixes. At the moment: 14 in Core, and 18 in all the modules
    • New wheel structure being discussed: splitting the big wheels into at least two

3. March 2022

  • General
  • Infra & Releases
    • 6.2.4 ready to be released, but qt was postponed for 15.03.2022
    • PyPy CI builds are still being tested
    • Next week there will be a CI maintenance break
    • Python versions: 3.6 (linux + win) 3.9 (mac) | 3.10 test win
      • 3.6 will be deprecated in 6.3, so we will change CI versions
      • 3.8 (win), 3.10 (x), 3.7 (x)
    • 6.3 branching still pending a few wheel modifications, and tags.
  • Bug & Features
    • PyPy build on windows presented a few challenges, and PyPy issues were found and reported.
    • pyi generation also had issues due to a virtualenv + windows configurations being wrong, regarding the import orders.
    • Enum refactoring is still in progress.
    • container conversion research
    • 1835 building 5.15 without limited api
    • qml research on property values, and group properties will be fix as well
    • research on new opportunities to improve PySide as a Python module
    • re-working the wheel generation

24. February 2022

  • General
  • Infra & Releases
  • Bug & Feature
    • PYSIDE-1824 BT issue was fixed
    • PYSIDE-1826 Image provider
    • PYSIDE-1827 metatype slot pending (metacall handle improvements)
    • Research on arguments conversion
    • PYSIDE-1815 set modified parameter function (reddit example)
    • PYSIDE-1809 signature modules issues.
    • PYSIDE-1821 Byte handling changes
    • Research on new ideas for the PySide module
    • PYSIDE-1705 Property support in constructors (relation with __feature__)
    • PYSIDE-1735 Python Enums to handle Qt Enums (prototypes)
      • PYSIDE-1731 mypy regression issue (related to enums)
    • PyPy work continues, focused on compatibility with the newest version (supporting python 3.9)


17. February 2022

  • General
    • New Documentation Engineer joined the Foundation Area.
  • Infrastructure & Releases
    • 3.10.0 configuration to be tested
    • Research on improvements for the packages in download.qt.io
    • Testing PyPy on the CI
    • Python 3.6 will be deprecated in PySide 6.3 and removed in 6.4
  • Bugs & Features
    • Addressing compatibility with other deployment tools.
    • QmlExtended QmlAttach will be available in 6.3
    • PYSIDE-1812 cross build task custom clang options
    • Research with C++20 to build pyside, and vector call new API in 3.9+
    • PYSIDE-1765 PYSIDE-1763 __feature__ issues were fixed and working on providing support for property in constructors PYSIDE-1705 (a bit more difficult)
    • PYSIDE-1815 QtNetworkAuth.QAbstractOAuth is missing modifyParametersFunction/setModifyParametersFunction
    • PYSIDE-1821 Add support for std::byte
    • PYSIDE-1809 wrong name type annotation for setProperty() and property()

10. February 2022

  • General
  • Bugs & Features
    • PYSIDE-1806 CMake version check fixed
    • PYSIDE-1804 Big endian test failure fixed
    • Work in progress to add further QML decorators
    • PYSIDE-1702 snake_case handling now does explicitly not touch user defined classes.
    • PYSIDE-1758 Leave the underscore variable alone in QApplication
    • PYSIDE-535 Remove a disambiguation patch no longer needed
    • PYSIDE-1765 Widget subclass' minimumSizeHint not called with true_property
    • Work in progress on: PYSIDE-1753 setStyleSheet available even if snake_case (complex)

03. February 2022

  • General
  • Infra & Releases
    • 6.2.3 was released.
    • Waiting for a scheduled CI break on Monday
    • OSS packages for 5.15.3 source to be available soon.
  • Bugs & Features
    • Updating new Qt dev API (targeting 6.4)
    • Adjusting a designer issue with a crash on views
    • Improving examples: Old OpenGL API
    • PYSIDE-1801 signal crash issue addressed
    • PYSIDE-1804 QByteArray issue
    • Improving QML: getting some issues with QML_ATTACHED
    • Writing PyPy Documentation to explain motivation, changes, and usage.
    • PyPy Compatibility:
      • Got nice performance results with the working mandelbrot example
      • Still working on some last tests that are not properly working.
    • PYSIDE-1798 fixing enum issue
    • Continue the work on the python-lsp issues on QtCreator

27. January 2022

  • General
    • Communicate issue with Apple Silicon and our wheels. There is a bug on Python so using limited API and creating wheels with Python 3.8, make them unusable for 3.6 and 3.7
  • Infra & Releases
    • 6.2.3 to be release soon.
  • Bugs & Features
    • Qt Creator LSP issue has an initial solution
    • Curating a list of new features for Shiboken
    • Working on an issue related to help() function on top of custom modules
    • PYSIDE-1057 memory leak in progress
    • Fixing examples to be compatible with PyPy and addressing corner cases
    • QPainter was transformed into a context manager
    • Building pyside with PyPy 3.8 is possible (3.9 is still in alpha)
    • Working on a new tree example
    • 1788 allow-thread issue with event functions
    • Add threaded OpenGL example
    • Add data()/constData() to OpaqueContainers
    • Continue work on QML integration

20. January 2022

  • General
  • Infra & Releases
    • 6.2.3 release next week
    • Waiting a bit before branching 6.3
  • Bugs & Features
    • QtCreator Python LSP issue to be worked on
    • Continue with the research related to new Shiboken features.
    • Fixing general bugs from support
    • Adapting new API for 6.3
    • Improving QML story with custom types
    • PyPy compatibility is focused on making some last examples to work, some issues with PyPy are being found as well.

13. January 2022

  • Infra & Releases
    • Maintenance in the CI, still a few things to be improved.
    • New version of Gerrit is available as well.
    • 5.15.8 Commercial LTS was released
    • 5.15.2.1 to be release soon, special version with Python 3.10 support
  • Bugs and Features
    • PYSIDE-1755 Fixing issues with __code__ (related to slots)
    • Improved documentation
    • Looking for new features for Shiboken
    • Working on improving the LSP story on QtCreator https://github.com/python-lsp/python-lsp-jsonrpc/issues/5
    • PYSIDE-1764 suggestion on avoid the generation/wrapping of methods within objects.
    • PYSIDE-1730 signal/method namespace crash, generated by old fixes on old bugs.
    • Add capacity/reserve functions to OpaqueContainers
    • QML references examples issues, to discover missing details on the qml interaction
    • Clarifying the conversion rules on the typesystem: native, target
    • PYSIDE-1768 and PYSIDE-1769 WebEngine issues were solved.
    • uic missing imports
    • PYSIDE-1751 equality test for signals is rewritten and working better
    • QXYSeries: adding missing addons to enable methods


06. January 2022

  • General
    • New bridge between Telegram <-> IRC
  • Infra & Release
    • Planning 5.15.2 new release (5.15.2.1) to include Python 3.10 support.
    • 5.15.8 Commercial LTS to be release in the next couple of days.
    • 6.2.3 planned for 2022.01.18
  • Bugs & Features
    • PYSIDE-1755 __code__ inspection on slot connection is buggy (breaks, e.g. MagicMock testing)
    • Ported new examples QRegularExpression editor and MimeTypes
    • Research to get new Shiboken features
    • Updating translations
    • In progress enabling qmllint in pyside project thanks to an external tool
    • Addressing signal issues for different use-cases, multiple inheritance
      • There is a relation with PyPy issues as well
    • PYSIDE-1760 Racing condition without virtual environments (preloading setuptools)
    • true_property issues were solved.
    • continue work to have a more modular pyside installation with more wheels
    • research on manylinux compatibility

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