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==2022==
==2023==


===22. December 2022===
===23. March 2023===
* General
** QtWS CfP open
** EuroPython talks submitted
** Keeping an eye on future Python events
* Infra & Releases
** 6.4.3 is out
*** pypy3 3.9.12 compatible, newer versions included an incompatibility
** 6.5 branching out today
* Bugs & Features
** async support continues.
** Fixing a couple of issues related to the pyside6-deploy tool.
*** venv compatibility
*** qml apps are not properly working
** android support almost ready for TP
** PYSIDE-2261 cython signature module incompatibility fixed
** Removed goto from PySide
** Multiple inheritance issues were fixed.
** old Enums are being removed, and the startup time will improve a bit (still in progress)
** PYSIDE-971 GL funtions implementation
** including texttospeech into the wheels (missing by mistake)
** adapting scripts to 6.5
** metaobjectdump issue fixed
** doc updates


*General
===16. March 2023===
*Infra & Releases
**6.2.7, 5.15.12 LTS Preparations
*Bugs & Features
**[https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-2155 PYSIDE-2155] Unity builds were enabled for the dev branch (see [https://cmake.org/cmake/help/latest/prop_tgt/UNITY_BUILD.html CMake Manual] ), greatly speeding up building
**[https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-1345 PYSIDE-1345] , QSGGeometry.vertexDataAsPoint2D() was added along with the custom geometry scene graph example
**[https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-1889 PYSIDE-1889] PyErr_Print was replaced by delayed error handling.
***Related to the true_property bug since that triggered an uncatchable recursion error.
** Deployment code restructuring for Mocking. Deploy dry_run tests are now complete.
** Working on Deploy tool documentation.
**[https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-2160 PYSIDE-2160] Further code analysis in progress, no PyEnum relation.


===15. December 2022===
* General
** Preparing submissions for Europython
** New company colors
* Infra & Releases
** 6.4.3 release next week (no release branch)
** Issues with Nuitka 1.5.1 (released yesterday) and the CI didn't like it. Pining 1.5
* Bugs & Features
** qtpip: add support for many other operators (for versions)
** PYSIDE-2254 exit crash issue was fixed
** PYSIDE-2251 designer issue when not initializing virtual environment.
** qmlsurface example ported (polishing the C++ code as well)
** example icons: discussions to standardize them a bit
** android research: fixing some issues with qtquick
** PYSIDE-1564 multiple inheritance work continues, really far but found new issues. Generalizing the solution a bit from a Shiboken point of view. Research on how shiboken handle multiple inheritance to be compatible with Python's way.
** PYSIDE-2255 virtual method issue related to access to those members.
** Generalization of QApplication usage on the tests.
** Research: Add course to QtLearn related to Qt for Python
** doc: some links are broken.
** doc: migration to sphinx-design from sphinx-panels


*General
===9. March 2023===
**Team will go on holiday during next week
**Bug fixing week ongoing
**Internal training session
*Infra & Releases
**Commercial LTS postponed
**6.4.2 to go out next week
**OSS LTS tags back to the pyside-setup repo
**bundling commercial wheels to account.qt.io
**adding wheels to maintenance tool Qt/6.x.y/qtforpython/*.whl
*Bugs & Features
**PYSIDE-1889 work continues
**exception handling proposal
**https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-628 seems to still be valid
**PYSIDE-1295 QObject sender when slot receiver is not cpp
**build system cleanup
**Checking 3.11.1 python
**1345 issue with rendering
**metatypes and windows issue with pyside6-project
**PYSIDE-2125 Jumbo builds trying out
**Improving deployment tool
**Updating the missing_binding script (added a plot)
**


===08. December 2022===
* General
** Packing use-cases
** Europython CfP: https://ep2023.europython.eu/cfp
* Infra & Releases
** Preparing 5.15.13: release might be today if nothing goes wrong.
** Wheel bundles on the account.qt.io, and soon to be available in the Maintenance Tool
* Bugs & Features
** Re-added QtLocation
** Added larger examples for QtLocation, QtDataVisualization
** Android research continues, preparing a TP
** https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-2169 Leak related to AsyncIO was finally fixed: related to the new Enum implementation
*** PyErr_Fetch/Restore does ref counting, and not borrow ref
** qtpip works continues
** https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-79 bug signal instance: fixed most if not all possible errors.
** https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-1403 pyi still produces something not fully working with IDEs
** https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-1564 First version of the implementation of multiple inheritance is working
*** Not a general solution, but a good approach (compatible with a competitor).
*** Working on a full support to handle multiple inheritance


*General
===2. March 2023===
**Internal training
* General
**Qt Creator sync
** Preparing internal/external material
*Infra & Releases
** Next monday CI maintenance break
**Commercial 6.2.7, 5.15.12 LTS to be released next week, together with 6.4.2
* Infra & Releases
*Bugs & Features
** commercial wheel bundles available on account.qt.io
**6.5 adapting changes, fiddling with the metatypes location changes.
** 6.4.3 release was postponed
**qdoc: reviews and little improvements.
* Bugs & Features
**using shared pointers in shiboken for the abstract meta classes.
** Improvements for qtpip
**patches in the build scripts (to include more pathlib) - motivated by webassembly research
** postEvent() memory leak still has an unknown origin
**PYSIDE-2140 5.15 issue with signal comparison - won't due to difficulty to get things back.
** PYSIDE-2236 QMetaMethod.fromSignal added
**global receiver large change addressing a bug
** PYSIDE-2237 be careful with using reserved words in examples/docs/...
**polishing cmake files around shiboken.
** PYSIDE-2239 opaquecontainers wrong dunder name
**PYSIDE-1889 true_property issues due to the Qt API not being clear about 'what is a property', also having other errors.
** PYSIDE-2206 Examples revamping
**Improving the missing_binding script, and trying to get a better comparison with other bindings.
*** Maybe we keep some examples around even if they are removed in Qt/C++
**Continue with the async research (attempting to implement an abstract class to have async support)
** Android work continues! looking good with 6.5
**discussion about asyncio example
** PYSIDE-1564 Multiple inheritance story was improved, still in progress.


===01. December 2022===
===23. February 2023===
* General
** Giving a talk at Python La Paz (on Saturday) - in Spanish
* Infra & Releases
** 6.4.3 ready to start the release process
** Change to fix the windows signing is merged
* Bugs & Features
** 3.12 compatibility changes will reach 5.15, 6.2, and the future 6.5 LTS
** PYSIDE-79 (caused by PYSIDE-68) refcounting issues addressed
** Continue the 3.12 support because of some new issues found
** PYSIDE-1564: Multiple inheritance support is still being worked (old ABC issues might be related)
** Issues with documentation build (sphinx)
** Research on a memory leak related to the asyncio example: it's not related to asyncio, but from the posting action (pyside, and not Qt, because a C++ example with no async doesn't have any leak)
** PYSIDE-2234 adding QRunnableCreate
** fixed 6.5 issues with cross compilation
** Designer examples revamp
** Works continues on qtpip (a pip wrapper to install commercial wheels)
** PYSIDE-2232 NixOS issues was fixed (another was deferred)
** Research on the std::span support
** Unity compilation research continues
** Bug cleanup, closing and fixing old ones.
** OpenGL getProc issue is being worked on.
** PYSIDE-2192 interactive matplotlib issue (hook)


*General
===16. February 2023===
**Hackathon projects in January
*Infra & Releases
**6.2.x commercial LTS coming
**6.4.2 might come earlier!
***Stoping 6.4 non-critial-bug-fixes on December 8th for RC wheels
*Bugs & Features
**PYSIDE-2029 snake_case usage break when switching context solved.
**PYSIDE-1019 Follow the Qt/C++ API style in regards of properties - amend
**Improved PyPy compatibility with feature switching
**PYSIDE-1889: true_property: assignment of a callable in a GUI window
**Trying to improve the documentation build process
**PYSIDE-2136 warn-as-error issue
**Adapting new metatype directory structure (for metatype files)
**WebAssembly research continues - there is no byte compiling


===24. November 2022===
* General
** Development of a tool for commercial wheel installation started, and other general improvements.
** Blog posts -> 6.5 release, and Android research.
** Don't forget about Europython.
* Infra & Releases
** Branching dev to 6.5 when the Qt/C++ 6.5.0 RC is out (16 Mar '23)
*** Only fixes go to dev with Pick-to: 6.5 if necessary
*** new features remain in dev (for 6.6)
* Bugs & Features
** nogil research was positive, and most of our test work. It would require for us to modify the generator for each function/module.
*** mandelbrot example works and improves its performance around 3.5 times.
** Python 3.12 will include an incompatibility due to the changes in the type generation
*** https://github.com/python/cpython/issues/60074#issuecomment-1430115581
*** some other issues were found, but not as critical as the tp_new issue.
** It will be possible to install pyside6 in conda environments starting from 6.4.3 and 6.5
** commercial identifier on commercial wheels will be replaced to be compatible with distutils
** asyncio research continues
** Adapting the deploy tool to include compatibility with android (in progress)
** research on ML-based tool to transform c++ <-> python
** Getting started docs updated
** qtdoc documentation content will be included in the docs
** doc issues: some broken links and references
** General slides to be updated


*General
**Release freeze process, 1 week before Qt/C++ releases
**Feedback from GNUHealthCon and comments from Meeting C++
*Infra & Releases
**6.4.1 was released, docs to be published today.
**Improving commercial distribution and documentation
*Bugs & Features
**PYSIDE-2042 true_property inheritance correctly implemented
**PYSIDE-2029 snake_case usage break when switching context with another module, like qasync (callbacks)
**PYSIDE-2033 incorrect slot order due to lack of @Slot
**PYSIDE-1638 Incomplete autocomplete support via .pyi files
**PYSIDE-1889 feature switching issue
**Adding notes to the documentation snippets to state they are auto-generated.
**API Documentation issue, taking lots of time.
**Updating documentation aspects of containers
**Release testing
**WIP for adding properties as a table, like Qt/C++ does
**WebAssembly continues: checking for setuptools compatibility to being able to use pyodide and also qt configurations
**Configurations related yocto/cross compilation plan to improve the embedded story.
===17. November 2022===
*General
*Infra & Releases
**Preparing 6.4.1
*Bugs & Features
**PYSIDE-753 Added 3D Shared pointers
**PYSIDE-2121 Fixed QMetaObject.invokeMethod() regression
**PYSIDE-2097 - setup.py install fails if building against Qt without qmlls
**PYSIDE 2115 - qmlformat, qmllint, and qmlls Error While Loading Shared Libraries
**Android Deployment - Scoping - Created 3 subtasks (all of them are more or less done) - See subtasks PYSIDE-1612
**PYSIDE-2101 rlcompleter solved with quick immediate and long-term patch
**PYSIDE-2042 true_property inheritance correctly implemented
**PYSIDE-1735 Long-term task: Decouple new and old enum implementation, making old removable
**PYSIDE-2111 Show warning about possible errors on auto-translated snippets (sill exploring whether to warn as comment in code or as banner on top of page)
**Fixed Windows build problems when selecting debug + limited-api
===10. November 2022===
*General
*Infra & Releases
**COIN fix for commercial distributions
*Bugs & Features
**PYSIDE-1603 Missing signals in stubs
**PYSIDE-2095 Signals with several parameters where the 1st is an enum no longer work with Python 3.11
**PYSIDE-2110 TypeError: 'QWebEngineScript.setWorldId' called with wrong argument types: QWebEngineScript.setWorldId(ScriptWorldId)
**_PEPUnicodeAsString old issue and other improvements
**Build script changes fine tuning for including all the required files
**Android research: issues with some platform plugins
**1904 types for DBusCall and QVariant issue
**2099 forward declarations in shiboken
**2098 emit signal from a dict to qml
**enum analysis test
**doc build improvements
**753 SharedPointer type in Qt3D moving the types into the namespace
**Issues with Windows debug builds and Python 3.11
**Doc issues on the windows build, and discussion on disclaimer for auto generated snippets.


===3. November 2022===
===09. February 2023===


*General
* General
**New intern working in the Team
** How to make our API better for pathlib?
*Infra & Releases
** 3.11.2 released, 3.10.10 as well
**Preparing next commercial LTS release
** https://peps.python.org/pep-0675/
**Missing modules from the CI provisioning.
* Infra & Releases
*Bugs & Features
** LTS tags cannot be pushed to community repo (permissions), hopefully in this week.
**lean headers options for shiboken
** Maintenance Tool updates soon
**PYSIDE-2109 duplications related qml (reg)
** Binary signing still need a little change to be working
**PYSIDE-2098 QVariantMap in QML strange behavior
** dev to use 6.5 starting today
**Preparation for 6.5
* Bugs & Features
**Preparing 6.4.1 (thanks for your reports!)
** Android research in progress, looking good :)
**PYSIDE-2097 tools dependencies while building pyside (qmlls for example) issue.
** A solution was proposed to fix the usage of PySide6 in conda environments: still needs tweaks to work, mainly related to an internal qt.conf that's loaded at runtime.
**Improving what goes inside the tools
** PYSIDE-2222 custom widget plugin, load with uic crash
**Mocking and testing deployment tool
** PYSIDE-2201 was fixed: introducing weak references into the SignalInstances.  
**Improve documentation
** PYSIDE-79 was possible to solve (from PYSIDE-68 solution). Still needs to some documentation to be written.
** PYSIDE-2221 research on future compatibility with NoGIL Python https://github.com/colesbury/nogil https://peps.python.org/pep-0703/
** https://github.com/blueloveTH/pocketpy also interesting


===27. October 2022===
===02. February 2023===


*General
* General
**QtWS talk prepared and ready for the conference!
** Europython 2023 will be in Prague! 17-23 July
*Releases & Infra
* Infra & Release
**6.4.0.1 new release upcoming
** Improving wheel creation in our CI (signing windows, and other things)
**New commercial 5.15 to be released after 6.4.0.1
** Soon we will have released LTS in the OSS repo (after some complications)
**Review signing process
** CI Maintenance break coming next Monday (keep an eye open to the Python configuration)
**Update one of the CI configurations to use 3.11
* Bugs & Features
*Bugs & Features
** Unity builds were helping pyside/shiboken, and some tests are being done in qt/c++
**Deploy and Project tool getting new fixes and features (qmlimportscanner)
** meta task on revamping examples in the Qt Project
**Android research in progress, trying to solve the QPA open questions
** Adding uic functionality and documentation
**Improving Signals: signal signatures, polishing implementation, 3.11 issues with signals that have enums.
** Doc reviews, some issues were found
**Investigating issues regarding Enums in 3.11 behaving like int rather than IntEnum
** Android development continues, and looks good!
**CMake cleanup, versioning, and force limited api
** introducing --log-level to change --verbose-build and --quiet
**2076 private signals for doc generator now visible
**Overhaul of Signal/SignalInstance continues:
**bug cleanup
*** [https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-2201 PYSIDE-2201] Weak Reference handling is complete
**include cleanups in shiboken
*** [https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-79 PYSIDE-79] Research on Reference bug continues
**new doc related to Developer Notes
** create_wheels.py --builddir to explicitly provide build directory
**Issues with default parameters on signal/slots being override
** WIP: QtAsyncIoEventLoop using Qt's event dispatcher, using BaseEventLoop and BaseSelectorEventLoop for guidance


===20. October 2022===
===26. January 2023===


*General
**Qt Bug Fixing Week
**Talk for the QtWS ready
**Meeting C++ attendance
*Infra & Releases
*Infra & Releases
**6.4.0.1 will likely to be released next week to include a couple of important fixes in 6.4.0
**Fixed issues with Windows signing
*Bugs & Features
*Bugs & Features
**Pylance issue on VSC fixed (still in review)
**Fixed [https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-2204 PYSIDE-2204 qt.conf encoding]
**Refactoring on the project and deployment tool (QML binaries are not too large now, etc)
**Fixed bugs in pyside6-metaobjectdump (QML) [https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-2202 PYSIDE-2202] , [https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-2203 PYSIDE-2203]
**Continue the research and work on Android
**PYSIDE-2194: Possibly requires refactoring of QLowEnergyController to use the new WinRT API, instead of COM API
**SerialBus examples were added
**Android Deployment - Patches incoming to automate cross compilation to produce android wheels
**Adapting C++ code following latest changes from Qt
**Overhaul of Signal/SignalInstance
**PYSIDE-2088 Enum overflow issue was fixed
*** Implement Weak Reference Handling
**Adapting flickering issue on TabbedBrowser
*** [https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-2201 PYSIDE-2201] Handle early destruction of the object better
**PYSIDE-2084 issue related to GLES
*** [https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-79 PYSIDE-79] Trying to finally fix the reference leak using weakref.
**Adjusting build output to clean it a bit (Doc, --quiet, support, pyi generation...)
**Alternative approach to Anaconda issue: Register internal qt6.conf with site-packages prefix (still WIP).
**Adjusting Enum implementation further on based on feedback and internal comments.
**WIP: Implement class QtAsyncIoEventLoop(asyncio.AbstractEventLoop) that wraps around Qt's event loop to enable Qt + asyncio.
**PYSIDE-1970 __slots___ issue being tackled
**Memory leak with current asyncio example (or space leak?)


===13. October 2022===
===19. January 2023===


*General
*General
**New documentation on how to for developers
**Hackathon in TQtC
**Qt World Summit talk ready for the event
**The WebAssembly PySide Team was almost doubled in size (+1 brain, +1 hand)
**Meeting C++ approaching
*Infra & Releases
*Infra & Releases
**6.4 release waiting for PyPy wheels, and everything else is ready.
**Windows signing to be improved.
**Commercial LTS releases are waiting for 6.4 to be out.
**LTS releases into oss repo: some issues appeared but will be merged soon.
*Bugs & Features
*Bugs & Features
**Fixed IntEnum issues with setData (special case)
**PYSIDE-1994: De-virtualization of Shiboken embedded Python files is now an option controlled dynamically by SBK_EMBED
**Writing documentation from the latest major changes (Enums, placing the signature in the right place, etc)
***PYSIDE-1019: A dormant __feature__ initialization timing problem was fixed while implementing de-virtualization
**Awaiting signal features is in progress, there are open questions regarding implementation details.
**PYSIDE-1735: De-coupling of old and new enums was started
**SerialBus module research, we could include it
**PYSIDE-1564: Debugging of multiple inheritance continues
**Release work, broken examples, docs, etc.
**Fixed some bluetooth functions in PySide6.
**PYSIDE-2077 issues was a Qt Bug
**Low Energy Scanner Example
**Catching up with Qt changes and adapting codebase
**PYSIDE-2194: Progressing with this. Definitely a thread issue which allow-thread doesn't seem to fix.
**Adjusting deployment tool before release
**Possible solution for problems with PySide6 inside conda (compat package with qt6.conf file), but investigating if best solution
**Studying the QML case where binaries are too large (deployment)


===6. October 2022===
===12. January 2023===
 
*Infra & Releases
**Preparing the 6.4 release
*Bugs & Features
**Fixed regression [https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-2071 PYSIDE-2071]
**Fixed OpenGL function modifications and signatures
**Work on shiboken C++ type handling, relaxed modification matching to match typedef'ed types
**Async examples with Trio done, also work with asyncio instead now (though some open questions remain)
 
===29. September 2022===
 
*Infra & Releases
**Preparing the 6.2.6 LTS release
*Bugs & Features
**Added QtSerialPort  example
**Removed many compiler warnings in the generated code, run the entire project at higher warning level
**Investigated [https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-2066 PYSIDE-2066], [https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-2065 PYSIDE-2065]
**PyEnum: broke up all development steps into 7 selectable topics. Documentation being written.
**PYSIDE-1735 left to do: Make new enums independent from old enums, preparing removal.
**Finishing async examples, preparing to start enhancing async support in PySide (Key Results to be added to OKR 2022 Q4).
 
===22. September 2022===
 
*Infra & Releases
**6.2.6 Commercial LTS to be released next week.
**Adding 5.15.x open LTS branches into the oss repository has been challenging, and still in progress.
*Bugs & Features
**Cross compilation for yocto sysroot/toolchain story continues issues with the compiler
**PyEnum documentation available, and more compatibility patches are being developed to relax a bit the current scheme.
**Trying to get new ideas on how to keep improving the enum story.
**Working on an example to showcase async functionality
**Preparing presentations for internal and external events.
**Documentation meetings to coordinate the Qt and Qt for Python processes.
***Plan to define how to write the documentation.
**PYSIDE-2038 changes to the M2M modules documentation (some changes in 6.3)
**Adding examples and removing some c++ based ones.
**PYSIDE-2060 Improving the crossbuild mechanism due to recent findings from Raspberry Pi related tasks.
**General cleanups in shiboken.
**Project generation ideas to improve the pyside6-project
 
===15. September 2022===


*General
*General
**We are going to Akademy
**Next week is Hackathon, meeting will be shorter
**Internal showcase of some new features
**Discussion on how to gather information, and sharing material around Qt for Python
*Infra & Releases
*Infra & Releases
**6.3.2 was released, but the docs are missing. PyPy are available as well.
**6.5 RC planning -> feature freeze for PySide
**PyPy dev wheels to be creaed and tested.
**6.4.2 was released last Monday
**Addressing issue of not having the LTS releases that made public back in the OSS repo.
**CMake Jumbo builds issue with Windows signing
**LTS branches to land in pyside-setup soon
*Bugs & Features
*Bugs & Features
**Tutorial for extracting snippets from qdoc comments and place them on snippet files.
**Async examples: addressing memory leak and cpu usage due to the event loop interactions
**Trying to deal with issues on PySide2 builds (Windows)
**Review conda packaging story and PySide6
**Issues with VSC and type hints related to Shiboken.Object
**De-virtualization of Python files: still some issues
**Research on Qt for MCU
**Incompatibility with pywin32: __feature__ related when trying to check if the ext module uses PySide. Also related to an issue with the inspect module.
**QtPDF modules were added (including an example)
**Installing PySide6.support via CMake (was previously not considered)
**Documentations has been getting more improvements at the rendering level and internals.
**Work continues on the multiple inheritance issues related to classes based on QObject
**Fix qualified names for the docs in Assistant.
**locate issues related to to* methods
**Doc inheritance diagrams will be stored in a JSON file, so we can use that info instead of having PySide installed.
**std::array support in shiboken (still in progress)
**Cross compilation for different compilers is being studied.
**fixing imports in matplotlib examples
**Cleaning docs with duplicated C++ examples.
**adaptation to 6.5
**pyside6-project new option to flip the usage of 'rc_' and '_ui'
**splitting shiboken generator source to its own
**Fixed an issue related to 3.11 PYSIDE-1960 (and followup known bugs)
**Android deployment works - tested on Widget applications
**PyEnum documentation is ready. 6.4 will have by default the new Enum implementation, in addition a compatibility mode is provided to allow the end users to have the previous enum-code implementation. Extreme cases when people would like to use the old implementation, they would be able to do it with an environment variable.
**Fixing QTBUG-109510 leading to discovering issues with certain functions in PySide6. Being fixed.
**Deployment tool and option (for pyside6-project) soon to be finished.
**Akademy talk will include new examples and cool demos!


===8. September 2022===
===5. January 2023===


*General
*General
**Cristián at PyConSK
**Next monday CI maintenance
**Christian is OOO
**OKRs
*Infra & Releases
*Infra & Releases
**Wheels being tested for 6.3.2 release
**5.15.12 LTS, 6.2.7 LTS released
**Open Source LTS releases to be moved to the pyside-setup
**6.4 CI hanging, issues on lts-5.15 due to Python
**6.4.2 to be release in the following days
*Bugs & Features
*Bugs & Features
**Added setters for lists of QValue3DAxisFormatter  [https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-2025 PYSIDE-2025]
**PYSIDE-1931 SQL issue regarding allow-thread
**Documentation work: Fixed doc code injection for added functions, restructured modules page, fixed doc warnings
**helping 6.5 translations
**shiboken refactorings
**Adaptations with 6.5
**Brought the Quick Nano Browser example up to scratch
**QSharedPointer -> std::shared_ptr attempt
**Added QtPdf/QtPdfWidgets
**research on adding std::span into shiboken
**Desktop Deployment - First Review
**PYSIDE-2160 properties qml types issues
**Tutorials language review
**Android research continues
**QTBUG-109510 BTLE issue on pyside


===1. September 2022===
==2022==
 
*General
**We will have a talk at the QtWS
*Infra & Releases
**Better to re-create 6.3.2, many changes were in. Simo?
**Branching out 6.4.0 1 week before release to test the wheel.
*Bugs & Releases
**Triaging some bugs, they ended up being QTBUG
**Flags or operator issue when compared to None (QVariant possible change)
**Research on the PoC regarding Android deployment continues, there are some complications on the buildozer related step. Maybe recipe related?
**Starting to investigate if it could be possible to interact with Microcontrollers
**Three patches concerning PyEnums were finished, and still needs to be merged due to an issue with Python 3.9 - It is a simple version problem of enum.py vs. enum_310.py that can easily be avoided.
**WebAssembly research continues, there was an issue with the CMAKE_TOOLCHAIN_FILE variable that was picked up from the system.
**Python to C++ tool to be included with an entry point.
**Tweaking documentation pages
**Better to add descriptions to commits that don't have a clear title.
 
===25. August 2022===
 
*General
**Main wiki page seems to be a bit outdated, we should try to motivate folks to read the docs as a first thing.
**There will be a talk at Akademy 2022 in Barcelona
*Infra & Releases
**6.3.2 to be released soon (a couple of patches needs to be added)
*Bugs & Features
**[https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-1735 PYSIDE-1735] Almost ready, but still figuring out some final details, for example Key combinations, and Flag combinations as well.
**libpyside now has a logging category (for qtmetacall, and see properties assigned, etc) motivated by PYSIDE-2033 when not using Slot decorator.
**QMessageBox allow thread issue was solved
**M2M modules (commercial) docs will be available
**Adding a new Bluetooth example (heart server)
**WebAssembly research continues: emsdk toolchains between Python and Qt are different, so there are incompatibility issues. Trying to cross compile raises issues related to building shiboken.
***Pyodide seems to rewrite some distutils methods, so it's impossible to build using our own overrides.
**Adding deprecation warning to Enums
**Debian packaging story continues, but it looks good :)
**Trying to build full docs on Windows is a bit tricky due to libxslt and libxml not being easy to get.
 
===18. August 2022===
 
*General
*Infra & Releases
**6.3.2 preparations continued
*Bugs & Features
**[https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-2031 PYSIDE-2031], [https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-1721 PYSIDE-1721] Work on C++ doc snippet conversion
**Work on porting further examples
**[https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-2025 PYSIDE-2025] Investigated issues in Datavisualization
**WASM research
**PyEnum: Story finished API-wise. To come are optimizations and removal of old enum code.
**Signature test simplified and activated, again. Signatures are now always tested.
***Isolated a whitespace error in QtWebEngineWidget that was to be fixed in ApiExtractor
**PyEnum: Working on documentation
**Profiling signature module. Rewrite parts in C? cProfile and line-profiler (3.9)
**QFormLayout.takeRowResult() should now finally be supported if the test is indeed right ([https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-1312 PYSIDE-1312])
**Fixed an old problem with random values in QFormLayout.getItemPosition() for row == -1.
**Android story requires jumping through some hoops on Windows (several parts of the toolchain are Linux only).
***Toolchain can run on WSL, but problems for Android Virtual Device -> adb redirection over TCP as workaround.
***adb redirection over TCP not yet supported by Qt Creator, complicating some things - might be easy to fix, investigating.
 
===11. August 2022===
 
*General
*Infra & Releases
**6.3.2 preparations started
*Bugs & Features
**[https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-1984 PYSIDE-1984] Work on modelview tutorials and snippet conversion
**[https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-2019 PYSIDE-2019], [https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-2025 PYSIDE-2025] Work on  Datavisualization issues
**[https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-2017 PYSIDE-2017] Added some OpenGL functions
**Unit test discovery - progressing
**PYSIDE-1312 - takeRow() missing in QFormLayout
**Windows binding examples fixed  for debug builds
**Wrapping up PyEnum
**Examining documentation - looking for possible adaptations
**Desktop deployment with nuitka - progressing
**PySide6 vs PyQt6 - slides for marketing
 
===04. August 2022===
 
*General
*Infra & Releases
**3.11 compatibility will not be backported to 5.15.x releases for x < 11
**Windows 6.3.1 sources package seems to be missing on account.qt.io
**PyPy branch has been properly working lately
*Bugs & Features
**PYSIDE-2004 Adding qmlls and qmlformat
**Android story evolving, at least with QtCore there is a PoC, UI elements are a bit more challenging due the plugins related to the Java/C++ interaction.
**Deployment functionality being studied for pyside6-projet
**QML Wayland issue discovered while porting an example
**Following up on a former QUrl issue that was an overlook, not a bug.
**Test discovery in IDEs (vscode), issues with the structure the unittest requires, will try to use pytest
**PYSIDE-1995 C++ exceptions propagation
**PYSIDE-1996 Widgets classes might have constructor parameters
**OpenGLFunctions missing functions that require some numpy interaction
**Python 3.11 compatibility on dev, 6.3, 6.2, and 5.15
**Snippet converter was improved, still work to do.
**solved issue related to pyenv and --enabled-shared
***--enable-shared was not officially recommended for Python and is now optional for PySide
**Working towards Debian PySide packages, adapting many things.
**PyEnum revealed bugs when partially moving from IntEnum to Enum, making issue splitting necessary:
***QKeySequence implementation was fixed
***a few more problems to be solved before final check-in of the PyEnum conclusion
***Then PyEnum documentation will become complete and will be finished, next.
 
===28. Juli 2022===
 
*General
**Akademy 2022 KDE - October 2nd - Qt for Python
 
*Infra & Releases
**5.15.6 LTS early September release
 
*Bugs & Features
**Shiboken and Pyside imports in android works, but not the event loop (QApplication, QCoreApplication) ie. QLibraryInfo works in Android
***Needs special handling and requires QtLoader.java in Python.
***Possibility of creating an infrastructure for Android deployment that doesn't need Kivy Framework
**VS Code test discovery (in progress, but halted for now)
**Window and Splash screen qml example being ported to C++
**Qml example resulted into noticing a bug in QUrl PythontoCpp() conversion
**PyEnum - final stages of closing gap between PyQt. Distinguish between Enum, IntEnum and Flag, IntFlag.
**Test crash issue seems to be solved with python built with --enable-shared
***Opportunity to get rid of the whole issue, waiting for fix of CI
 
<br />
 
===21. Juli 2022===
 
*General
**Possible participation at Akademy
**What about https://www.pycon.se/ ?
 
*Infra & Releases
**6.2.5 commercial LTS was released.
**6.3.2 release to happen in the middle August
**PyPy CI is partially working (still some issues)
 
*Bugs & Features
**New spreadsheet example was added.
**QVariant issue related to Enums was at the end fixed.
**Enabling automatic testing on VSC requires __init__.py files in all directories
**We might add a .vscode/settings.json for development purposes
**The Windows Debug tutorial will be expanded :)
**Deployment: struggling with formatting of libraries
**https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-1996 seems to be a pyi issue
**https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-1735 Finished the implementation, starting with the documentation
**https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-1970 __slots__ issue might be related to the usage of old python versions
**Adapting changes from QtCore like Q_DECLARE_METATYPE and changes to Q_ARG/invokeMethod
**Helping the Qt6 and PySide6 story on Debian
 
 
===14. Juli 2022===
 
*General
*Infra & Releases
**6.2.5 commercial LTS wheels to be published.
**PyPy CI issue remains, but some ideas in place
**Enabling Python betas: maybe we could use a new COIN feature.
*Bugs & Features
**PyEnum chain is ready for review
**https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-1988 Old shiboken was found and fixed
***We need to check the interfaces more often, otherwise we will find nasty issues like this one.
**https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-1960 was finally fixed as well and compatible with the new PyEnum approach.
**https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-1735 seems to be trickier
***complicated only to keep compatibility with the old Enum approach.
**Documentation for the new Enum system soon to be finished, then we will ask for feedback from you dear reader.
**QTBUG QLocale issue was found when using en_DE locale (fix was submitted)
**Android story is progressing well :D
***Still figuring out wheel structure and testing
**Sample binding example of QObject classes as base
**Continue with the PySide yocto cross compilation
 
===07. Juli 2022===
 
*General
*Infra & Releases
**PyPy CI issues and currently offline
**macOS CI issues last week, it should work properly now.
**wheel name update on 6.2
**Commercial LTS 6.2.5 planned for next week.
**Plans to try beta python versions on the CI
*Bugs & Features
**PyEnum story continues, trying to mitigate some problems that appear from the initializations. Initialization now is done in one phase. Working from 3.6 to 3.10, still having issues with 3.11
**Deployment story continues, and things are looking good for Android :O
**New team member setting up things, building Qt, PySide, and many other things
 
===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
**[https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-1964 PYSIDE-1964] Improved messages for kwargs
**6.4 preparations, API and documentation
**Initial work on Python 3.11
**[https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-1945 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 [https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-1895 PYSIDE-1895], strings with 0 chars.
**Diagnosed [https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-1893 PYSIDE-1893], object deletion with lambdas.
**Worked on [https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-1859 PYSIDE-1859], native Win handles
**Continued [https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-1880 PYSIDE-1880] QDataVisualization
**String migration of the code according to [https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/QTBUG-98434 QTBUG-98434] and related cleanups
**Improved isolation between tests and __feature__ settings, reset() method implemented.
**Migration to PyEnum [https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-1735 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
**6.3 was released: https://www.qt.io/blog/qt-for-python-details-on-the-new-6.3-release
**6.3 was branched
*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
**[https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-1874 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
**[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)


===03. February 2022===
*[[Qt for Python Development Notes 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


==2021==
==2021==

Revision as of 09:41, 23 March 2023

2023

23. March 2023

  • General
    • QtWS CfP open
    • EuroPython talks submitted
    • Keeping an eye on future Python events
  • Infra & Releases
    • 6.4.3 is out
      • pypy3 3.9.12 compatible, newer versions included an incompatibility
    • 6.5 branching out today
  • Bugs & Features
    • async support continues.
    • Fixing a couple of issues related to the pyside6-deploy tool.
      • venv compatibility
      • qml apps are not properly working
    • android support almost ready for TP
    • PYSIDE-2261 cython signature module incompatibility fixed
    • Removed goto from PySide
    • Multiple inheritance issues were fixed.
    • old Enums are being removed, and the startup time will improve a bit (still in progress)
    • PYSIDE-971 GL funtions implementation
    • including texttospeech into the wheels (missing by mistake)
    • adapting scripts to 6.5
    • metaobjectdump issue fixed
    • doc updates

16. March 2023

  • General
    • Preparing submissions for Europython
    • New company colors
  • Infra & Releases
    • 6.4.3 release next week (no release branch)
    • Issues with Nuitka 1.5.1 (released yesterday) and the CI didn't like it. Pining 1.5
  • Bugs & Features
    • qtpip: add support for many other operators (for versions)
    • PYSIDE-2254 exit crash issue was fixed
    • PYSIDE-2251 designer issue when not initializing virtual environment.
    • qmlsurface example ported (polishing the C++ code as well)
    • example icons: discussions to standardize them a bit
    • android research: fixing some issues with qtquick
    • PYSIDE-1564 multiple inheritance work continues, really far but found new issues. Generalizing the solution a bit from a Shiboken point of view. Research on how shiboken handle multiple inheritance to be compatible with Python's way.
    • PYSIDE-2255 virtual method issue related to access to those members.
    • Generalization of QApplication usage on the tests.
    • Research: Add course to QtLearn related to Qt for Python
    • doc: some links are broken.
    • doc: migration to sphinx-design from sphinx-panels

9. March 2023

  • General
  • Infra & Releases
    • Preparing 5.15.13: release might be today if nothing goes wrong.
    • Wheel bundles on the account.qt.io, and soon to be available in the Maintenance Tool
  • Bugs & Features

2. March 2023

  • General
    • Preparing internal/external material
    • Next monday CI maintenance break
  • Infra & Releases
    • commercial wheel bundles available on account.qt.io
    • 6.4.3 release was postponed
  • Bugs & Features
    • Improvements for qtpip
    • postEvent() memory leak still has an unknown origin
    • PYSIDE-2236 QMetaMethod.fromSignal added
    • PYSIDE-2237 be careful with using reserved words in examples/docs/...
    • PYSIDE-2239 opaquecontainers wrong dunder name
    • PYSIDE-2206 Examples revamping
      • Maybe we keep some examples around even if they are removed in Qt/C++
    • Android work continues! looking good with 6.5
    • PYSIDE-1564 Multiple inheritance story was improved, still in progress.

23. February 2023

  • General
    • Giving a talk at Python La Paz (on Saturday) - in Spanish
  • Infra & Releases
    • 6.4.3 ready to start the release process
    • Change to fix the windows signing is merged
  • Bugs & Features
    • 3.12 compatibility changes will reach 5.15, 6.2, and the future 6.5 LTS
    • PYSIDE-79 (caused by PYSIDE-68) refcounting issues addressed
    • Continue the 3.12 support because of some new issues found
    • PYSIDE-1564: Multiple inheritance support is still being worked (old ABC issues might be related)
    • Issues with documentation build (sphinx)
    • Research on a memory leak related to the asyncio example: it's not related to asyncio, but from the posting action (pyside, and not Qt, because a C++ example with no async doesn't have any leak)
    • PYSIDE-2234 adding QRunnableCreate
    • fixed 6.5 issues with cross compilation
    • Designer examples revamp
    • Works continues on qtpip (a pip wrapper to install commercial wheels)
    • PYSIDE-2232 NixOS issues was fixed (another was deferred)
    • Research on the std::span support
    • Unity compilation research continues
    • Bug cleanup, closing and fixing old ones.
    • OpenGL getProc issue is being worked on.
    • PYSIDE-2192 interactive matplotlib issue (hook)

16. February 2023

  • General
    • Development of a tool for commercial wheel installation started, and other general improvements.
    • Blog posts -> 6.5 release, and Android research.
    • Don't forget about Europython.
  • Infra & Releases
    • Branching dev to 6.5 when the Qt/C++ 6.5.0 RC is out (16 Mar '23)
      • Only fixes go to dev with Pick-to: 6.5 if necessary
      • new features remain in dev (for 6.6)
  • Bugs & Features
    • nogil research was positive, and most of our test work. It would require for us to modify the generator for each function/module.
      • mandelbrot example works and improves its performance around 3.5 times.
    • Python 3.12 will include an incompatibility due to the changes in the type generation
    • It will be possible to install pyside6 in conda environments starting from 6.4.3 and 6.5
    • commercial identifier on commercial wheels will be replaced to be compatible with distutils
    • asyncio research continues
    • Adapting the deploy tool to include compatibility with android (in progress)
    • research on ML-based tool to transform c++ <-> python
    • Getting started docs updated
    • qtdoc documentation content will be included in the docs
    • doc issues: some broken links and references
    • General slides to be updated


09. February 2023

  • General
  • Infra & Releases
    • LTS tags cannot be pushed to community repo (permissions), hopefully in this week.
    • Maintenance Tool updates soon
    • Binary signing still need a little change to be working
    • dev to use 6.5 starting today
  • Bugs & Features
    • Android research in progress, looking good :)
    • A solution was proposed to fix the usage of PySide6 in conda environments: still needs tweaks to work, mainly related to an internal qt.conf that's loaded at runtime.
    • PYSIDE-2222 custom widget plugin, load with uic crash
    • PYSIDE-2201 was fixed: introducing weak references into the SignalInstances.
    • PYSIDE-79 was possible to solve (from PYSIDE-68 solution). Still needs to some documentation to be written.
    • PYSIDE-2221 research on future compatibility with NoGIL Python https://github.com/colesbury/nogil https://peps.python.org/pep-0703/
    • https://github.com/blueloveTH/pocketpy also interesting

02. February 2023

  • General
    • Europython 2023 will be in Prague! 17-23 July
  • Infra & Release
    • Improving wheel creation in our CI (signing windows, and other things)
    • Soon we will have released LTS in the OSS repo (after some complications)
    • CI Maintenance break coming next Monday (keep an eye open to the Python configuration)
  • Bugs & Features
    • Unity builds were helping pyside/shiboken, and some tests are being done in qt/c++
    • meta task on revamping examples in the Qt Project
    • Adding uic functionality and documentation
    • Doc reviews, some issues were found
    • Android development continues, and looks good!
    • introducing --log-level to change --verbose-build and --quiet
    • Overhaul of Signal/SignalInstance continues:
    • create_wheels.py --builddir to explicitly provide build directory
    • WIP: QtAsyncIoEventLoop using Qt's event dispatcher, using BaseEventLoop and BaseSelectorEventLoop for guidance

26. January 2023

  • Infra & Releases
    • Fixed issues with Windows signing
  • Bugs & Features
    • Fixed PYSIDE-2204 qt.conf encoding
    • Fixed bugs in pyside6-metaobjectdump (QML) PYSIDE-2202 , PYSIDE-2203
    • PYSIDE-2194: Possibly requires refactoring of QLowEnergyController to use the new WinRT API, instead of COM API
    • Android Deployment - Patches incoming to automate cross compilation to produce android wheels
    • Overhaul of Signal/SignalInstance
      • Implement Weak Reference Handling
      • PYSIDE-2201 Handle early destruction of the object better
      • PYSIDE-79 Trying to finally fix the reference leak using weakref.
    • Alternative approach to Anaconda issue: Register internal qt6.conf with site-packages prefix (still WIP).
    • WIP: Implement class QtAsyncIoEventLoop(asyncio.AbstractEventLoop) that wraps around Qt's event loop to enable Qt + asyncio.
    • Memory leak with current asyncio example (or space leak?)

19. January 2023

  • General
    • Hackathon in TQtC
    • The WebAssembly PySide Team was almost doubled in size (+1 brain, +1 hand)
  • Infra & Releases
    • Windows signing to be improved.
    • LTS releases into oss repo: some issues appeared but will be merged soon.
  • Bugs & Features
    • PYSIDE-1994: De-virtualization of Shiboken embedded Python files is now an option controlled dynamically by SBK_EMBED
      • PYSIDE-1019: A dormant __feature__ initialization timing problem was fixed while implementing de-virtualization
    • PYSIDE-1735: De-coupling of old and new enums was started
    • PYSIDE-1564: Debugging of multiple inheritance continues
    • Fixed some bluetooth functions in PySide6.
    • Low Energy Scanner Example
    • PYSIDE-2194: Progressing with this. Definitely a thread issue which allow-thread doesn't seem to fix.
    • Possible solution for problems with PySide6 inside conda (compat package with qt6.conf file), but investigating if best solution

12. January 2023

  • General
    • Next week is Hackathon, meeting will be shorter
    • Discussion on how to gather information, and sharing material around Qt for Python
  • Infra & Releases
    • 6.5 RC planning -> feature freeze for PySide
    • 6.4.2 was released last Monday
    • CMake Jumbo builds issue with Windows signing
    • LTS branches to land in pyside-setup soon
  • Bugs & Features
    • Async examples: addressing memory leak and cpu usage due to the event loop interactions
    • Review conda packaging story and PySide6
    • De-virtualization of Python files: still some issues
    • Incompatibility with pywin32: __feature__ related when trying to check if the ext module uses PySide. Also related to an issue with the inspect module.
    • Installing PySide6.support via CMake (was previously not considered)
    • Work continues on the multiple inheritance issues related to classes based on QObject
    • locate issues related to to* methods
    • std::array support in shiboken (still in progress)
    • fixing imports in matplotlib examples
    • adaptation to 6.5
    • splitting shiboken generator source to its own
    • Android deployment works - tested on Widget applications
    • Fixing QTBUG-109510 leading to discovering issues with certain functions in PySide6. Being fixed.

5. January 2023

  • General
    • Next monday CI maintenance
    • OKRs
  • Infra & Releases
    • 5.15.12 LTS, 6.2.7 LTS released
    • Open Source LTS releases to be moved to the pyside-setup
    • 6.4 CI hanging, issues on lts-5.15 due to Python
    • 6.4.2 to be release in the following days
  • Bugs & Features
    • PYSIDE-1931 SQL issue regarding allow-thread
    • helping 6.5 translations
    • Adaptations with 6.5
    • QSharedPointer -> std::shared_ptr attempt
    • research on adding std::span into shiboken
    • PYSIDE-2160 properties qml types issues
    • Tutorials language review
    • Android research continues
    • QTBUG-109510 BTLE issue on pyside

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