Re: [Interest] Priority of bugs

2018-10-02 Thread Alex Blasche
From: Krzysztof Kawa >> P.S. On the positive side, in regular intervals we do a bugfixing week. >> During such a week >>the entire RnD org focuses only on bugs. I consider them a fairly successful >>exercise and as luck will have it, we have one next

Re: [Interest] Priority of bugs

2018-10-01 Thread Krzysztof Kawa
Tuukka Turunen wrote: > Just to note that more than “two minor fixes” were done related to widgets in > Qt 5.11.2 Sorry, my bad. I was (wrongly) basing that statement on the contents of the changelist: http://code.qt.io/cgit/qt/qtbase.git/tree/dist/changes-5.11.2 If you filter that Jira link to

Re: [Interest] Priority of bugs

2018-10-01 Thread Tuukka Turunen
2018 at 16.30 To: "interest@qt-project.org" Subject: Re: [Interest] Priority of bugs I get that. Let me try to be more constructive then - looking at the proportion of the number of those long standing unresolved issues to the number of bullet points in the release notes by module I'd

Re: [Interest] Priority of bugs

2018-10-01 Thread Krzysztof Kawa
Alex Blasche wrote: > Fact is that Qt is huge and there are not enough work hours in a day to fix them all. I'm a maintainer of a pretty large code base myself so I understand that completely. > (...) some bugs are simply too hard to fix (...) and (...) there are things which are too risky to

Re: [Interest] Priority of bugs

2018-10-01 Thread Roland Hughes
On 9/30/18 5:27 PM, Giuseppe D'Angelo wrote: You stated: a lot of shortcuts get taken and are allowed as long as the test-nothing automated test clears Jenkins. This is a FALSE STATEMENT, no matter if it's Jenkins or Coin or whatever CI suite Qt happens to be using. You're not off the hook.

Re: [Interest] Priority of bugs

2018-09-21 Thread Alex Blasche
From: Interest on behalf of Thiago Macieira On Thursday, 20 September 2018 08:20:23 PDT Konstantin Tokarev wrote: > 20.09.2018, 15:59, "Krzysztof Kawa" : > > Hi, > > Are only P0 reports looked at? >P1 blocks a release. >Or at least it should.

Re: [Interest] Priority of bugs

2018-09-21 Thread Alex Blasche
> -Original Message- > From: Interest On > Behalf Of Krzysztof Kawa ... > Anyway, I really don't want to stretch this rant. I'm just bummed about the > degrading quality of my favorite framework and I hoped I'm not the only one > that noticed. But maybe I am. I won't justify why a

Re: [Interest] Priority of bugs

2018-09-21 Thread Shawn Rutledge
> On 21 Sep 2018, at 01:07, Nyall Dawson wrote: > > FWIW, I've also encountered some serious issues with this > functionality under gnome, where floating docks will get stacked under > main windows if they were previously tabbed and restoreState is > called. The only "fix" is to disable this

Re: [Interest] Priority of bugs

2018-09-20 Thread Thiago Macieira
On Thursday, 20 September 2018 08:20:23 PDT Konstantin Tokarev wrote: > 20.09.2018, 15:59, "Krzysztof Kawa" : > > Hi, > > I really hate to be "that guy" again, but I'd just like to know what's > > going on. > > > > Some time ago I complained about bugs not being resolved for many > > major

Re: [Interest] Priority of bugs

2018-09-20 Thread Nyall Dawson
On Fri, 21 Sep 2018 at 04:04, Krzysztof Kawa wrote: > > Christoph Feck wrote: > > in practice most bug fixing is spent to make the > > new features actually work. There is no point in adding features, if > > they are not useable because of bugs. > > Funny you should say that. I actually wish this

Re: [Interest] Priority of bugs

2018-09-20 Thread Tomasz Olszak
Hi Krzysztof, I would suggest to contact maintainer on IRC and ask if there is something you can help with. E.g I encountered QTBUG-70222, contacted Alex and in 20 minutes he guided me how to provide data he needs to narrow down and fix the issue. For some other bugs/features it was easier to

Re: [Interest] Priority of bugs

2018-09-20 Thread Krzysztof Kawa
Christoph Feck wrote: > in practice most bug fixing is spent to make the > new features actually work. There is no point in adding features, if > they are not useable because of bugs. Funny you should say that. I actually wish this was true, but take a look at the sad history of QTBUG-52108 for

Re: [Interest] Priority of bugs

2018-09-20 Thread Christoph Feck
On 20.09.2018 14:59, Krzysztof Kawa wrote: [...] If a new feature has a bug I just don't start to use it, no problem, but if something breaks after update I'd like to at least know I can skip a release and wait for a fix. While this makes sense, in practice most bug fixing is spent to make the

Re: [Interest] Priority of bugs

2018-09-20 Thread Konstantin Tokarev
20.09.2018, 15:59, "Krzysztof Kawa" : > Hi, > I really hate to be "that guy" again, but I'd just like to know what's going > on. > > Some time ago I complained about bugs not being resolved for many > major releases. I was then told my reports were P2 or lower and I > can't expect them to be

[Interest] Priority of bugs

2018-09-20 Thread Krzysztof Kawa
Hi, I really hate to be "that guy" again, but I'd just like to know what's going on. Some time ago I complained about bugs not being resolved for many major releases. I was then told my reports were P2 or lower and I can't expect them to be taken care of. That sucks for me but I can understand to