Em Terça-feira 31 Agosto 2010, às 14:42:14, Philippe escreveu: > A feature request is rarely bad. It's all about priorities, and > part of "governing" is selecting priorities. It is why I have risen this > issue. > > This being said, proposing a patch is certainly the best way to induce a > positive result.
Hi Philippe
The opening up of the governance model will not change the priorities of the
Nokia team working in Qt. We have our constraints, our requirements and our
objectives which come from a mix of Open Source users, commercial customers,
Nokia teams, as well as our own ideas.
With Open Governance, we hope to have a larger pool of ideas to prioritise for
our own work. And we hope also to be able to cooperate with other people in
developing those ideas and suggestions. There will also be a change in how the
project's directions are decided, the major decisions: those will have to be
done in the open, with input from all, and decisions made by those who we
trust to make them.
However, we will continue to set our own priorities for ourselves. You can
continue to influence Nokia's priorities the same way you have been doing
before. But in the end, we decide what we want to work on.
What will change is how that affects Qt.
First and foremost, our priorities are not your priorities. They differ. The
same way that they differ from any other person or company. The opening up of
the governance model includes giving you (and others) the ability to effect
changes for themselves.
That is, if a feature that you really need isn't high on Nokia's list of
priorities, you are allowed to develop it, or have it developed by someone,
and have it added to Qt. It will need to pass a series of technical and
qualitative checks, just like any other feature, developed by anybody (see
another email on this subject).
Remember that this is a meritocracy. Some people like to call it "doacracy"
"do-cracy", as in he who does work, decides. Personally, I don't like the name
because it's too similar to "duocracy", which means two people have power. But
you get my meaning.
The second important change is we all have to play by the same rules, with no
special treatment. That means Nokia priorities are no better than anyone
else's -- aside from the fact that Nokia will be contributing 100+ full-time
engineers to the project.
So, in summary, if a feature is implemented and it's passing the criteria we
set for ourselves, it should go in. It doesn't matter who implemented it.
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Thiago Macieira - thiago.macieira (AT) nokia.com
Senior Product Manager - Nokia, Qt Development Frameworks
Sandakerveien 116, NO-0402 Oslo, Norway
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