+1 for this. Everyone is solving their own problems with QtMobility and if is becoming fragmented.
Regards, Àngel El 15/10/12 10:24, Thomas McGuire escribió: > Hi, > > I'd like to propose to move QtMobility to the qt-project.org. > > The main reason I am proposing this is that we (RIM + KDAB) right now have a > fork of QtMobility living on Gitorious [1]. This fork contains backends for > sensors and multimedia for the new BB10 mobile OS, and will likely gain > support for NFC and Bluetooth as well. It contains some API additions too. > In addition to BB10, the Mer project also has patches for QtMobility [2], and > the Android port has a backend [3]. Lorn Potter is working on backporting > sensor gestures to QtMobility [4]. > > As you can see, there is still interest in QtMobility. Having it on qt- > project.org would potentially reduce the number of forks and patches that are > around. At least we are committed to properly upstream all patches of the BB10 > fork. > > There are multiple advantages of making qt-project.org the home for > QtMobility. First of all, we'd gain a proper review process through Gerrit. > The docs would live on qt-project.org as well, which is naturally the first > place people look for documentation. Right now the documenation for the API > additions for BB10 are hard to find, for example. In general, getting rid of a > fork is almost always a good idea. > > Any objections to this? How can we make this happen? > > The first steps would be to set up Gerrit for QtMobility and make sure commits > to Gerrit end up on Gitorious. > After that, we'd upstream the BlackBerry backend and the new API via Gerrit > and get rid of the forked repository. > > There is already documentation at [5]. Is that auto-generated from the > Gitorious repository automatically? If so, there is nothing to do in that > area, hopefully. > > Eventually, we'd create a new 1.3 release with the BlackBerry backend and the > new API (or maybe a 2.0 release even). > > Any thoughts? > > Regards, > Thomas > > [1] https://gitorious.org/+kdab-developers/qt-mobility/qnx-qt-mobility > [2] http://gitweb.merproject.org/gitweb?p=mer-core/qt-mobility.git;a=summary > [3] http://quickgit.kde.org/?p=android-qt-mobility.git > [4] https://qt.gitorious.org/~lpotter/qt-mobility/lpotters-qt- > mobility/commit/2fd397a87e567dad8c48e2d7c1d35050a569d160 > [5] http://doc.qt.digia.com/qtmobility/index.html > > > > _______________________________________________ > Development mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.qt-project.org/mailman/listinfo/development > -- 2ª edición Curso CFP "Introducción a los microcontroladores ARM Cortex-M" http://armcortexm.blogs.upv.es/ ************************************************************************* Angel F. Perles Ivars Departament d'Informàtica de Sistemes i Computadors - DISCA Universitat Politècnica de València - E.U.Informàtica Cami de Vera s/n. 46022-Valencia Edifici 1G Despatx 2S-13 e-mail: [email protected] Telf.+34 963877007 Ext. 75775 Fax.+34 963877579 http://www.disca.upv.es/aperles _______________________________________________ Development mailing list [email protected] http://lists.qt-project.org/mailman/listinfo/development
