On 22 October 2013 15:33, Vladimir Minenko <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi all, > > during one of the last release meetings, we had a chat about "Tier 1" or > reference platforms. I mentioned that IMHO the "Tier 1" notion known in Qt > prior Qt5 is not used in Qt5 anymore. I was not able to provide references > off the top of my head, and now I took some time to collect references. I > post it now to the dev list to get feedback/opinions from all. > > Since I was missing a reliable navigation, I used a search on Google with a > limit in its scope: > > * site:qt-project.org/wiki > * site:doc-snapshot.qt-project.org/qt5 > > I observed the following: > > * The Qt5 documentation does not use the "Tier" notion to define levels of > platform support. At least Google does not find the word "Tier" in docs. A > grep over the entire source code of most modules does not bring any results > either. Instead, "reference configurations" are defined: > http://doc-snapshot.qt-project.org/qt5-nosubdir/supported-platforms.html > > * The Qt Project wiki does know "Tier 1", but in turn, it does not know > "reference configurations". Plus, it provides its own version of related > definitions: http://qt-project.org/wiki/Platform_Support, including a dead > link to Qt docs (I was about to correct it, but did find that page in docs > anymore). The wiki also mentions the key word "Tier" on a few other pages, > e.g. http://qt-project.org/wiki/Qt-Quality-Gate-Criteria > > * Still, the context of Qt5 apparently has some traces of the "Tier" > definition, e.g. it names Windows Embedded Compact 7 a Tier 2 platform, see > http://qt-project.org/wiki/New-Features-in-Qt-5.1 > > Finally, a search over emails on the dev list > (site:lists.qt-project.org/pipermail/development) brings more > classifications/proposals: > http://lists.qt-project.org/pipermail/development/2012-November/007876.html > > The purpose of this email is not to point out something what is not done or > wrong. The purpose of this email to initiate a discussion and a work to get > this done and create a clear definition where Qt runs on and how related > platforms are classified. > > Opinions/feedback? Who is going to join a work on this? Can this topic get on > the todo list for the final 5.2 release? > > Thanks! > > -- > Vladimir
I think it's important to unify the nomenclature we are using. Current state of things, as reported by you, can be very confusing, especially to newcomers. Personally I would lean towards using the "tier 1"/ "tier 2" notation everywhere, but this is not a strong opinion. sierdzio _______________________________________________ Development mailing list [email protected] http://lists.qt-project.org/mailman/listinfo/development
