Qt wiki will be updated on October 12th 2023 starting at 11:30 AM (EEST) and the maintenance will last around 2-3 hours. During the maintenance the site will be unavailable.

Qt for Python Development Notes: Difference between revisions

From Qt Wiki
Jump to navigation Jump to search
 
(103 intermediate revisions by 5 users not shown)
Line 1: Line 1:
[[Category:Qt for Python]]
[[Category:Qt for Python]]
==2022==
==2023==


===17. November 2022===
===21. September 2023===


*General
*General
**Python 3.12.0rc3 is out, final release scheduled for October 2
*Infra & Releases
*Infra & Releases
**Preparing 6.4.1
**6.6 branched
**6.5.3 preparations
*Bugs & Features
*Bugs & Features
**PYSIDE-753 Added 3D Shared pointers
**Fixed [https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-2465 PYSIDE-2465] (3.11.5 test fail)
**PYSIDE-2121 Fixed QMetaObject.invokeMethod() regression
**Work on [https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-2462 PYSIDE-2462] (smart pointer features)
**PYSIDE-2097 - setup.py install fails if building against Qt without qmlls
**Refactored options parsing of shiboken
**PYSIDE 2115 - qmlformat, qmllint, and qmlls Error While Loading Shared Libraries
**Fixed clang-tidy static analysis issues
**Android Deployment - Scoping - Created 3 subtasks (all of them are more or less done) - See subtasks PYSIDE-1612
**Android permissions API: Adapt more C++ examples
**PYSIDE-2101 rlcompleter solved with quick immediate and long-term patch
**Couple more cleanups and additions to pyside6-android-deploy
**PYSIDE-2042 true_property inheritance about to be implemented
**More manual testing of pyside6-android-deploy. Need to write more integration (mocks) for Android deployment.
**PYSIDE-1735 Long-term task: Decouple new and old enum implementation, making old removable
**Final cleanup and resolving tests for python-for-android Qt for Python patch
**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)
**[https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-2468 PYSIDE-2468] -requestPermission() on macOS. Tricky scenario similar to [https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-2419 PYSIDE-2419]
**Fixed Windows build problems when selecting debug + limited-api
**asyncio's requirement to use ThreadPoolExecutor keeps screwing us over, but resolution close


===10. November 2022===
===14. September 2023===


*General
*Infra & Releases
*Infra & Releases
**COIN fix for commercial distributions
**Testing and fixing qtpip for commercial wheels
*Bugs & Features
*Bugs & Features
**PYSIDE-1603 Missing signals in stubs
**[https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-2460 PYSIDE-2460] Work on some OpenGL issues, updated hellogl2 example
**PYSIDE-2095 Signals with several parameters where the 1st is an enum no longer work with Python 3.11
**[https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-2461 PYSIDE-2461] Build system for cross build fixes
**PYSIDE-2110 TypeError: 'QWebEngineScript.setWorldId' called with wrong argument types: QWebEngineScript.setWorldId(ScriptWorldId)
**[https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-2463 PYSIDE-2463] Fixed some type hints
**_PEPUnicodeAsString old issue and other improvements
**Android auto sdk and nkd download merged.
**Build script changes fine tuning for including all the required files
**Requestpermission API and all android changes set for 6.6 merged. Will write tests in the meantime and do some manual testing with deploying apps.
**Android research: issues with some platform plugins
**patchelf removal for Qfp binaries merged.
**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===
===07. September 2023===


*General
*General
**New intern working in the Team
**Majority of the team on holiday
*Infra & Releases
*Infra & Releases
**Preparing next commercial LTS release
**Preparing 6.2.10, 6.5.3, 6.6.0
**Missing modules from the CI provisioning.
*Bugs & Features
**lean headers options for shiboken
**PYSIDE-2109 duplications related qml (reg)
**PYSIDE-2098 QVariantMap in QML strange behavior
**Preparation for 6.5
**Preparing 6.4.1 (thanks for your reports!)
**PYSIDE-2097 tools dependencies while building pyside (qmlls for example) issue.
**Improving what goes inside the tools
**Mocking and testing deployment tool
**Improve documentation
 
===27. October 2022===
 
*General
**QtWS talk prepared and ready for the conference!
*Releases & Infra
**6.4.0.1 new release upcoming
**New commercial 5.15 to be released after 6.4.0.1
**Review signing process
**Update one of the CI configurations to use 3.11
*Bugs & Features
*Bugs & Features
**Deploy and Project tool getting new fixes and features (qmlimportscanner)
**PYSIDE-2393 pytest problem with feature is fixed
**Android research in progress, trying to solve the QPA open questions
**PYSIDE-2428 feature problem caused long search, has to be fixed in matplotlib
**Improving Signals: signal signatures, polishing implementation, 3.11 issues with signals that have enums.
**Fixed [https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-2444 PYSIDE-2444] QState.assignProperty - incorrect type annotation
**Investigating issues regarding Enums in 3.11 behaving like int rather than IntEnum
**Fixed [https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-2454 PYSIDE-2454] Default argument is not used for containers
**CMake cleanup, versioning, and force limited api
**Added some number protocol slots [https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-2446 PYSIDE-2446]
**2076 private signals for doc generator now visible
**Research on submodules [https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-2447 PYSIDE-2447]
**bug cleanup
**qtpip for commercial wheels polishing touches
**include cleanups in shiboken
**new doc related to Developer Notes
**Issues with default parameters on signal/slots being override


===20. October 2022===
===31. August 2023===


*General
*General
**Qt Bug Fixing Week
**Python 3.11.5 released
**Talk for the QtWS ready
**PyCon Spain talk was accepted - Adrian giving a talk for the new Async story, in October.
**Meeting C++ attendance
**People on leave in September
**FF on Qt for Python overview
*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
**Planning 6.6 for the last days of September
***Maintenance Tool update for qt for python
***Features until 12.09
****Feature issues + multiple inheritance
****Async story needs some testing
****Android patches (new modules, plugins, permissions, etc)
****qtpip for commercial wheels
****new QtCreator templates?
**6.2.10 Commercial LTS and 6.5.3
*Bugs & Features
*Bugs & Features
**Pylance issue on VSC fixed (still in review)
**Lazy imports still in progress, might be available for 6.7
**Refactoring on the project and deployment tool (QML binaries are not too large now, etc)
**QmlSingleton crash was fixed
**Continue the research and work on Android
**JIRA was cleaned a bit, many invalid issues
**SerialBus examples were added
**Signal signatures were adjusted
**Adapting C++ code following latest changes from Qt
**PYSIDE-748 additional parameter metamethod (old issue)
**PYSIDE-2088 Enum overflow issue was fixed
**QDataStream read/write data accepting bytes too
**Adapting flickering issue on TabbedBrowser
**New CMake Qt API has lots of features for qml, resources, etc which might not be too compatible with Qt for Python.
**PYSIDE-2084 issue related to GLES
**PYSIDE-2429 macOS deployment min version fixed
**Adjusting build output to clean it a bit (Doc, --quiet, support, pyi generation...)
**patchelf removal is ready to merge (motivated by android research)
**Adjusting Enum implementation further on based on feedback and internal comments.
**android: permission API, need some extra testing. Soon ready for review.
**PYSIDE-1970 __slots___ issue being tackled
**QIODevice buffer object issue was fixed, and is waiting for review (motivated by the async story)
**qtpip development continues.


===13. October 2022===
===24. August 2023===


*General
*General
**New documentation on how to for developers
**New board on JIRA to reflect our work clearly https://bugreports.qt.io/secure/RapidBoard.jspa?rapidView=262&view=planning.nodetail&issueLimit=100
**Qt World Summit talk ready for the event
**Qt Meetups are starting to popup in Berlin and other countries! we might join some of them.
**Meeting C++ approaching
**Discussions around improving the Qt Creator experience and UI creation in general.
**There has been some motivation from Qt/C++ to use more CMake in projects (like for resources), which is negatively affecting the Python projects, due to the lack of CMake in the Python projects.
*Infra & Releases
*Infra & Releases
**6.4 release waiting for PyPy wheels, and everything else is ready.
**Commercial LTS 5.15.15 to be released soon.
**Commercial LTS releases are waiting for 6.4 to be out.
**6.5.3 scheduled for the first week of September
*Bugs & Features
*Bugs & Features
**Fixed IntEnum issues with setData (special case)
**QIODevice::read(char*, qint64) functions are removed, but they are useful for the asyncio story. Discussion on if it's worth exposing them.
**Writing documentation from the latest major changes (Enums, placing the signature in the right place, etc)
**More changes related to QtAsyncIO are ready for review.
**Awaiting signal features is in progress, there are open questions regarding implementation details.
**PYSIDE-2417 overflow issue was fixed
**SerialBus module research, we could include it
**[ot] i18n in the Qt framework
**Release work, broken examples, docs, etc.
**PYSIDE-2418 connection issue with python overloads
**PYSIDE-2077 issues was a Qt Bug
**6.6 documentation has some issues due to the QtGraph new module
**Catching up with Qt changes and adapting codebase
**PYSIDE-2423 connecting signals to python callable doesn't properly work - trying to find a proper solution
**Adjusting deployment tool before release
**PYSIDE-2424 Installing shiboken in a non-standard way discussion - it might not be properly fixed.
**Studying the QML case where binaries are too large (deployment)
**Next Wednesday 10am: session about Shiboken + QtScrypt status
**PYSIDE-2419 locale issue on macOS due to the Info.plist that python includes that overrides the QLocale settings. A bug report was filed upstream, and a workaround is suggested.
**PYSIDE-2421 webengine issue was discussed, it's an Qt/C++ chromium issue.
**CMake FindPython patches are still being worked out, the wrong interpreter is being found.
**patchelf removal is causing some issues with cross compilation.
**qtpip works continues.


===6. October 2022===
===17. August 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
*Bugs & Features
**Added QtSerialPort  example
**Investigating on PyPySide MI segfault postponed but on To-Do list [https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-1991 PYSIDE-1991]
**Removed many compiler warnings in the generated code, run the entire project at higher warning level
**[https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-2404 PYSIDE-2404] More Progress in Lazy Initialization
**Investigated [https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-2066 PYSIDE-2066], [https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-2065 PYSIDE-2065]
***the optional __getattr__ in module objects was successfully implemented (but is seldom used)
**PyEnum: broke up all development steps into 7 selectable topics. Documentation being written.
***lazy init of Enums is probably no more needed, covered by the import scheme below
**PYSIDE-1735 left to do: Make new enums independent from old enums, preparing removal.
***most common cases like "from PySide6.QtWidgets import QLabel" supported by another __import__ override
**Finishing async examples, preparing to start enhancing async support in PySide (Key Results to be added to OKR 2022 Q4).
***Keep your fingers crossed, testing starts today
**[https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-2419 PYSIDE-2419] QLocale::language() returns wrong on macOS.
***Caused by QLocale infrastructure which looks at Info.plist inside the Python interpreter macOS bundle.
***Working on a hack fix after consulting Tor Arne and Eddy.
**Pacthelf removal - cross compilation breaks. Working on a fix.
**[https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-2421 PYSIDE-2421] - QWebEngineView.print() - rerouted to Qt
***But, might requires an ownership fix in Shiboken once [https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/QTBUG-116052 QTBUG-116052] is resolved
**Research - use the .debug files provided by the Qt installer to debug from VSCode.
***Saves time from not building Qt everytime
***Still ongoing
**QtAsyncio: Implementation of asyncio.Server (one open question remains - asyncio API and Qt API don't always match as cleanly as desirable).


===22. September 2022===
===10. August 2023===
 
*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
**
**Internal showcase of some new features
*Infra & Releases
*Infra & Releases
**6.3.2 was released, but the docs are missing. PyPy are available as well.
**
**PyPy dev wheels to be creaed and tested.
**Addressing issue of not having the LTS releases that made public back in the OSS repo.
*Bugs & Features
*Bugs & Features
**Tutorial for extracting snippets from qdoc comments and place them on snippet files.
**Patchelf removal only partially possible because of using patchelf on prebuilt Qt binaries.  
**Trying to deal with issues on PySide2 builds (Windows)
***For Qfp binaries patchelf removal under review. MacOS issue being fixed. This is needed for Android.
**Issues with VSC and type hints related to Shiboken.Object
**Shiboken module cmake installation bug fixed.
**Research on Qt for MCU
**Progressing with Android C++ to Python callback, now that Qfp binaries could be loaded on startup.
**QtPDF modules were added (including an example)
**Further investigating on PyPySide MI segfault [https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-1991 PYSIDE-1991]
**Documentations has been getting more improvements at the rendering level and internals.
**[https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-2404 PYSIDE-2404] Progress in Lazy Initialization
**Fix qualified names for the docs in Assistant.
***the new dual registration is done and builds the base for concrete lazy init
**Doc inheritance diagrams will be stored in a JSON file, so we can use that info instead of having PySide installed.
***lazy init of Enums postponed because
**Cross compilation for different compilers is being studied.
***an undocumented optional __getattr__ in module objects makes it much easier to lazy-load whole classes, first.
**Cleaning docs with duplicated C++ examples.
**pyside6-project new option to flip the usage of 'rc_' and '_ui'
**Fixed an issue related to 3.11 PYSIDE-1960 (and followup known bugs)
**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.
**Deployment tool and option (for pyside6-project) soon to be finished.
**Akademy talk will include new examples and cool demos!


===8. September 2022===
===3. August 2023===


*General
*General
**Cristián at PyConSK
**New reports board
**Christian is OOO
**QtCreator support
**Integration cycle on gerrit overview
*Infra & Releases
*Infra & Releases
**Wheels being tested for 6.3.2 release
**CI down next Monday for a few hours
**First tests on linux arm64
**Preparing 5.15.15 Commercial LTS
**qtpip first trials on the CI
*Bugs & Features
*Bugs & Features
**Added setters for lists of QValue3DAxisFormatter  [https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-2025 PYSIDE-2025]
**Async research continues, new things are being discovered while is being developed
**Documentation work: Fixed doc code injection for added functions, restructured modules page, fixed doc warnings
***Implementing a few new things for improving the support
**shiboken refactorings
***Initial patch got merged, but a few others are in the making
**Brought the Quick Nano Browser example up to scratch
**Team contributing to QtAcademy
**Added QtPdf/QtPdfWidgets
**SQL queries issues, inconsistencies in the API were fixed
**Desktop Deployment - First Review
**Build with ninja had some problems regarding mixing stdout and stderr
**Testing initial support for rvalues
**2272 fixing signatures for some qmlRegister* functions
**Examples: new mediaplayer was fully ported
**Example gallery scans now a doc directory for images
**Some other multimedia examples are pending for review
**Team contributing to Qt translations
**Adjusting the deployment tool, and fixing issues with pyenv, and upgrading nuitka
**CMake: adjusting the files to use the new API for finding python, reducing our cmake files
***Considering also the removal of patchelf, and follow the cmake approach
**Lazy initialization of enums is showing a good improvement on the performance


===1. September 2022===
===27. July 2023===


*General
*General
**We will have a talk at the QtWS
**Shyam wrote trip report to Europython
**Some vacations starting soon for some team members
**Got some cool t-shirts (internal only so far) - Is there interest for merch?
*Infra & Releases
*Infra & Releases
**Better to re-create 6.3.2, many changes were in. Simo?
**6.5.2 released
**Branching out 6.4.0 1 week before release to test the wheel.
**Some LTS releases soon as well
*Bugs & Releases
**Issues on the CI (RHEL8.6) and python interpreter.
**Triaging some bugs, they ended up being QTBUG
**Formalization of release besides wheels on PyPI and account.qt.io
**Flags or operator issue when compared to None (QVariant possible change)
**Soon to enable CI on qtpip
**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
*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.
**[ext] designer issue, translations
**libpyside now has a logging category (for qtmetacall, and see properties assigned, etc) motivated by PYSIDE-2033 when not using Slot decorator.
**PYSIDE-2402 QtHttpServer module was missing on Windows
**QMessageBox allow thread issue was solved
**QSql methods were un-deprecated (module seems to need more love)
**M2M modules (commercial) docs will be available
**Port QtGraph example
**Adding a new Bluetooth example (heart server)
**AsyncIO module: there is a second change in preparation
**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.
**Finally the android issue we had was solved. It seems that patchelf was breaking our binaries, and now we are using a cmake approach instead.
***Pyodide seems to rewrite some distutils methods, so it's impossible to build using our own overrides.
**Enable unity builds for android
**Adding deprecation warning to Enums
**Nuitka will be pinned to a recent version
**Debian packaging story continues, but it looks good :)
**PYSIDE-2404 lazy loader research
**Trying to build full docs on Windows is a bit tricky due to libxslt and libxml not being easy to get.
*Interesting projects we checked
**https://github.com/larryhastings/appeal
**Stable Diffusion
**https://docs.hpyproject.org/en/latest/quickstart.html
**https://github.com/rui314/mold


===18. August 2022===
===20. July 2023===


*General
*General
**Two team members @ Europython 2023
*Infra & Releases
*Infra & Releases
**6.3.2 preparations continued
*Bugs & Features
*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
**Implementing transports and protocols of asyncio API
**Work on porting further examples
**Lazy importer still under development. Ongoings:
**[https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-2025 PYSIDE-2025] Investigated issues in Datavisualization
***necessary to register all types without creating them
**WASM research
***turning all PyTypeObject into PyTypeObject valued functions
**PyEnum: Story finished API-wise. To come are optimizations and removal of old enum code.
***quite hard because deeply buried in the generated 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===
===13. July 2023===


*General
*General
**CI is not behaving, so be cautious
**3.12 beta 4 was released
**Next week some people are going to Europython
*Infra & Releases
*Infra & Releases
**6.3.2 preparations started
**6.5.2 still in progress, waiting to have the RC wheels
*Bugs & Features
*Bugs & Features
**[https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-1984 PYSIDE-1984] Work on modelview tutorials and snippet conversion
**Qt Akademy to prepare a Qt for Python course
**[https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-2019 PYSIDE-2019], [https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-2025 PYSIDE-2025] Work on Datavisualization issues
**Examples: we might adapt our gallery to https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/QTBUG-115174
**[https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-2017 PYSIDE-2017] Added some OpenGL functions
**Android: callback issue from C++ to Python, some ideas are around, but the problem persists.
**Unit test discovery - progressing
***Might be related to the usage of patchelf.
**PYSIDE-1312 - takeRow() missing in QFormLayout
**Research on Lazy loader continues
**Windows binding examples fixed  for debug builds
***Some ideas are behaving well at the moment, but still being tested.
**Wrapping up PyEnum
***We might need to discover some classes that we cannot initialize lazily (manual code injection, need init before usage)
**Examining documentation - looking for possible adaptations
**We need some reviews for the eventloop patch (asyncio)
**Desktop deployment with nuitka - progressing
**An enum class with an issue for stubs.
**PySide6 vs PyQt6 - slides for marketing
**qtpip work continues
**Some good-first-issue are planned for the project, so more contributors can join us!


===04. August 2022===
===6. July 2023===


*General
*General
**PySide 6.6 will support Python 3.8+
**Python 3.12 support will be back-ported to 6.5 only, and not 6.2
*Infra & Releases
*Infra & Releases
**3.11 compatibility will not be backported to 5.15.x releases for x < 11
**6.2.9 commercial lts was released yesterday.
**Windows 6.3.1 sources package seems to be missing on account.qt.io
**6.5.2 RC wheels to be tested.
**PyPy branch has been properly working lately
**5.15 open commercial lts tags are in the pyside/pyside-setup repo.
**qtpip configuration file being improved and updated
**ARM CI host configuration continues
*Bugs & Features
*Bugs & Features
**PYSIDE-2004 Adding qmlls and qmlformat
**Removal of old enums was finished
**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.
**Starting to work with lazy loaders for enums
**Deployment functionality being studied for pyside6-projet
**First iteration of the asyncio support for the qt eventloop, tests are being prepared.
**QML Wayland issue discovered while porting an example
**PYSIDE-2370 cross compilation issue, might be related to host python, provided some options to try.
**Following up on a former QUrl issue that was an overlook, not a bug.
**Android issue, we cannot get C++ callbacks to Python. Might be related to a python version incompatibility.
**Test discovery in IDEs (vscode), issues with the structure the unittest requires, will try to use pytest
**Preparing a contribution back to python-to-android
**PYSIDE-1995 C++ exceptions propagation
**Rewriting some enum code
**PYSIDE-1996 Widgets classes might have constructor parameters
**Add mediaplayer demo in qtdoc for python (some issues with qml)
**OpenGLFunctions missing functions that require some numpy interaction
**Add document viewer qtdoc example
**Python 3.11 compatibility on dev, 6.3, 6.2, and 5.15
**PYSIDE-2381 QSettings issue
**Snippet converter was improved, still work to do.
**pyside6-lupdate issues related to encoding.
**solved issue related to pyenv and --enabled-shared
**qtpip works continues
***--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===
===29. June 2023===


*General
*General
**Akademy 2022 KDE - October 2nd - Qt for Python
**Next maintenance break in August.
 
*Infra & Releases
*Infra & Releases
**5.15.6 LTS early September release
**6.5.2 postponed until next week
 
**6.2.9 Commercial LTS soon to be released (a new qt build)
**5.15.15 LTS in the next weeks
**ARM CI host still in progress
**Brainstorming some additional matrix testing infra for Python versions
**Tags for OSS and new LTS public releases (IFW ticket)
*Bugs & Features
*Bugs & Features
**Shiboken and Pyside imports in android works, but not the event loop (QApplication, QCoreApplication) ie. QLibraryInfo works in Android
**Research on scripting continues
***Needs special handling and requires QtLoader.java in Python.
**Designer related features/ QtCreator
***Possibility of creating an infrastructure for Android deployment that doesn't need Kivy Framework
**Memory leak related to REG is solved
**VS Code test discovery (in progress, but halted for now)
**New icon theme for examples coming
**Window and Splash screen qml example being ported to C++
**Some qdoc examples might be enabled for Python
**Qml example resulted into noticing a bug in QUrl PythontoCpp() conversion
**Enum removal is still generating detail discussions
**PyEnum - final stages of closing gap between PyQt. Distinguish between Enum, IntEnum and Flag, IntFlag.
***Two implementation versions are suggested.
**Test crash issue seems to be solved with python built with --enable-shared
***The old ones were written in C++ so the startup time is a lot slower
***Opportunity to get rid of the whole issue, waiting for fix of CI
***Lazy generator is helping a A LOT
**Android dev build - unity had some complications
**Async event loop work, last issues were addressed.
***still some network io features are missing
**[Research] PySide components for QtDS needs to follow QtDS release cycle rather than Qt.


<br />


===21. Juli 2022===
===21. June 2023===


*General
*General
**Possible participation at Akademy
**PyPI limit increase for PySide6-Addons
**What about https://www.pycon.se/ ?
**PySide 6.6 might have support for Python 3.8+ (due to Python 3.7 EOL in a week)
 
**Python 3.12b3 is out - test!
**Qt Contributor Summit
***General session + maybe another one for specific topics.
*Infra & Releases
*Infra & Releases
**6.2.5 commercial LTS was released.
**6.2.9 is ready, but waiting for Qt/c++ release
**6.3.2 release to happen in the middle August
**6.5.2 release date is next week.
**PyPy CI is partially working (still some issues)
**Tags for OSS and new LTS public releases
 
*Bugs & Features
*Bugs & Features
**New spreadsheet example was added.
**Android research: extra functionality is there, and working on bluetooth/permission integration with a device (example)
**QVariant issue related to Enums was at the end fixed.
**PYSIDE-2364 Invalid syntax on a pyi file
**Enabling automatic testing on VSC requires __init__.py files in all directories
**Continue with the old enum removal.
**We might add a .vscode/settings.json for development purposes
***Maybe delayed initialization to improve startup time.
**The Windows Debug tutorial will be expanded :)
**AsyncIO eventloop work continues
**Deployment: struggling with formatting of libraries
**Research for scripting continues
**https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-1996 seems to be a pyi issue
**6.6 adaptations
**https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-1735 Finished the implementation, starting with the documentation
**Fix Enum issue with clang with invalid hex
**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===
===15. June 2023===


*General
*General
**Going to EuroPython
**Participation in Qt Academy
*Infra & Releases
*Infra & Releases
**6.2.5 commercial LTS wheels to be published.
**6.2.9 LTS to be released
**PyPy CI issue remains, but some ideas in place
**NFS issues in the CI, being worked on.
**Enabling Python betas: maybe we could use a new COIN feature.
**ARM host on CI experiencing some issues.
***Some preliminary wheels were generated in order to test.
***Might help the Android story, but this needs to be confirmed.
*Bugs & Features
*Bugs & Features
**PyEnum chain is ready for review
**Async research revisited
**https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-1988 Old shiboken was found and fixed
***Testing eventloop wrapping
***We need to check the interfaces more often, otherwise we will find nasty issues like this one.
**Memory leak issue still needs to be fixed (hopefully for 6.5.2)
**https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-1960 was finally fixed as well and compatible with the new PyEnum approach.
**Examples in Qt revamp
**https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-1735 seems to be trickier
**Translations and fixes for 6.6
***complicated only to keep compatibility with the old Enum approach.
**Discussion about Enums implementation
**Documentation for the new Enum system soon to be finished, then we will ask for feedback from you dear reader.
**Scripting on C++ research continues
**QTBUG QLocale issue was found when using en_DE locale (fix was submitted)
**PYSIDE-1735 removing old enums continues
**Android story is progressing well :D
**Android improvements in review
***Still figuring out wheel structure and testing
***Adding more modules
**Sample binding example of QObject classes as base
**QVariant enum change (temporary patch until Qt7)
**Continue with the PySide yocto cross compilation
**shiboken_generator research to make it publicly available (libclang dependency)


===07. Juli 2022===
===8. June 2023===


*General
*General
**Python 3.11.4 released, 3.12.0beta2
**PySide6-addons reaching the 10G limit on PyPI
*Infra & Releases
*Infra & Releases
**PyPy CI issues and currently offline
**6.5.1.1 released due to a regression (introduced by a mem leak fix)
**macOS CI issues last week, it should work properly now.
**Maintenance Tool > wheels
**wheel name update on 6.2
***Special case for M2M protocols to be tested
**Commercial LTS 6.2.5 planned for next week.
**CI on arm64 continues (Linux and Windows)
**Plans to try beta python versions on the CI
*Bugs & Features
*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
**Fixed some type-hint related issues PYSIDE-2357/PYSIDE-2331/PYSIDE-2340
**Deployment story continues, and things are looking good for Android :O
**Scripting research
**New team member setting up things, building Qt, PySide, and many other things
**Qt pip tool has updated the configuration file and wheels to continue the work on the new tool
**QVariant PyEnum issue -> solution for review
**Android work continues: improving the dependency detection
**PYSIDE-2335 unraisable is finally checked in (the current solution works, it could be improved but low prio -> xml definitions)
**PYSIDE-2354 type error due to the usage of Generic (related to 939) - related to cpython issue
**PYSIDE-1735 old enums removal started
**Example tunings
**Bug fixing week


===30. June 2022===
===1. Juni 2023===


*General
*General
**New team member will start on Friday
**Europython - call for first time speakers (open to anyone)
**Intern interview next week
**Waiting until API review to move dev to 6.6
**Experience improvements
**New Epic/User Stories policy
***Add note to Qt Creator Wizard
**Participating into Qt Academy
***Video tutorials
***Survey to understand
**Designer icons (create SVGs, can we use them?)
*Infra & Releases
*Infra & Releases
**dev is now 6.4
**6.5.1 released, a leak fix is causing issues with signal connections.
**precheck on gerrit requires 'full' when the dialog is opened
***Initially we thought it was purely functools.partial but there are other cases that are not working.
**Source of 5.15.6 to be release soon.
***Testing alternative solutions, otherwise we revert
**TODO: 5.15, 62 wheel name adapt
***In any case a 6.5.1.1 will be out soon
**Need to test the new conf file for the commercial wheel install mechanism
**5.15 needs to skip libclang16
**Testing maintenance tool with a license without Qt for Automation (for wheel check)
**JIRA release versions are pending.
*Bugs & Features
*Bugs & Features
**1970 slots issue still in progress, seems to be tricky.
**(External) Designer fonts issues
**Continuing improving the cross compiling story
**PYSIDE-2347 metaobject tool missing types
**PyEnum changes are still in the work.
**Scxml events missing connections.
***Dealing with defaults values and initialization
**Scripting research (check report)
**3.11 compatibility continues
**Leak research continue
**vectorcall support improved
**Issue with new example state machine to be solved (event handling)
**Fix new numpy version 1.23
**PYSIDE-1930 PYSIDE-2239 QVariant Enum issue, the fix is out, but we need some tests.
**unique_ptr new example
**Finish the problem with unraisable exceptions
**QSpatialAudio added
***Discussion on special cases with a run function
**WebAssembly research continues
***Blocking functions are still an issue, because we cannot break
**PYSIDE-2354 typing.Generic issue with inheritance in progress
**PyTest research continues


===23. June 2022===
===25. Mai 2023===


*Infra and Releases
*General
**NumPy 1.23 broke dev and PyPy :(
**QtWS - One talk accepted
**We need to pin the other packages to avoid breakage
**Europython - One talk accepted
**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
*Infra & Releases
**commercial LTS 5.15.10 to be released
**6.5.1 one issue was found, so release will be available once we merge the fix.
**6.3.1 to be release next week
**5.15.14 to be release soon.
**Changing the python version on windows is generating new errors.
**CI arm64 experiments continue
**CI times are too long, so there is some plan to improve the waiting times.
**Asking about M2M wheels on the maintenance tool, for 6.6
**Solving LTS issues of missing tags on public repo, might take some time.
*Bugs & Features
*Bugs & Features
**Tooling research
**Evaluating shiboken6_generator to be published on PyPi
**Issues with special application cases, QML threading and stuff
**Few small fixes around the project (release preparation, new features, small bugs, doc issues)
**Access violation on debug builds on Python 3.7, on COIN it was a release build and presented the issue as well
**QtScrypt experimental work continues
**Adding new QML files to the wheel (GraphicalEffects)
**Permission API added (motivated by the android support)
**Continue research with WebAssembly
**Improvements for the android deployment.
**Discussion with pyqtgraph to improve API in favor of their module and performance.
**Trying to fix an issue of getting Enums to Ints
**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.
**Delayed exceptions work continues, trying to fix some corner cases still.
 
**Starting to explore PEP 658
**Research on PyTest compatibility
**[Designer] Fixing some issues, and warnings


===02. June 2022===
===18. Mai 2023===


*Infra & Releases
*Infra & Releases
**Windows 10: 3.6 -> 3.7, and add Windows 11: 3.10
**6.5.1 Preparations
**Signing binaries on Windows is time consuming
**5.15.14 Preparations
**6.2 Commercial LTS close to 6.3.1 OSS release.
*Bugs & Features
*Bugs & Features
**PYSIDE-1731 signatures issues related to QFlags
**Fixed [https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-2325 PYSIDE-2325] typesystem incomplete
**PYSIDE-1760 flake8 fixtures broke pyside builds, because it had some effect regarding the replacement of distutils by setuptools.
**Fixed [https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-2328 PYSIDE-2328] Segmentation fault/access violation when connecting signal of temporary object
**PyEnum improvements, adding them in the enclosing scopes.
**Fixed [https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-2329 PYSIDE-2329] Signal connections with init kwargs
**Continue the research on the deployment story
**Reverted temporarily the delayed exception patch, in order to not block the 6.5.1 release. This should be discussed at the next meeting
**PYSIDE-1930 QVariant issues
***Fixed [https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-2310 PYSIDE-2310]
**PYSIDE-1939 Crashes related to return value from shiboken heuristics
***Fixed [https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-2321 PYSIDE-2321]
**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


===11. Mai 2023===


===26. May 2022===
*General
 
**Python Users Berlin meetup talk today
*Holiday
**Europython, QtWS
 
**Qt FF 02.06
===19. May 2022===
**Android team «ketchup»
 
**Example revamp update
***Quick examples needs to be ported to loadFromModule (Quick3D, QuickLocation, missing)
*Infra & Releases
*Infra & Releases
**5.15.5 source code ready to be released
**6.5.1 to be release around 15.05 -> shifted to next week.
**6.3.1 delayed to mid-June
***https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-2310 regression
**6.2.4 was the last OSS 6.2 release
***https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-2299 memory leak
**5.15.14 to be release around 16.05
*Bugs & Features
*Bugs & Features
**1905 specify free functions in Shiboken
**Fixing regressions issue related to threads - delayed exceptions
**move the error messages to libshiboken
**https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-2321 event handlers issues
**1932 QEnum issues
**https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-1951 virtual method override - still in progress
**Starting research on webassembly
**https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-2230 3.12 support
**Continue research on improve our deployment
**nogil research continues - mutex might slow down things, but doing a proper division of the code could help.
**QML example tutorials - one review pending
**2313 longtype issue with numpy
**examples revamping - loadFromModule
**Icon library -> icon theme soon available on a new module.
**PYSIDE-2316 sharedpointer template issues
**Shiboken refactoring
**Finally the memory leak is fixed
**Enhancing android story, detection of modules, finding dependencies, got ideas from the current qt/c++ tool.
**Build infrastructure, setup.py install has been deprecated since 3.11 - looking into a new build infrastructure.
**Internal technical talks
***Shiboken generating bindings
***Shiboken for documentation generation
***type hints generation
***QML integration via decorators


story
===4. Mai 2023===
 
**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===


*General
**Europython talk by Shyam still under consideration
**Qt for Android catch up meeting scheduled for 09/05/2023
**Discussion with kivy developers done on discord. They seem to be onboard with the Qt support.
*Infra & Releases
*Infra & Releases
**5.15.4 sources should be released soon, preparing 5.15.5
**Special pypy branch for nightly integrations
*Bugs & Features
*Bugs & Features
**1898 QMetaObject invokeMethod added Q_ARG
**Android Deployment Enhancements - Bringing pyside6-android-deploy at the level of androiddeployqt - Ongoing
**1919 Crash was fixed
**python-for-android PR Enhancements - Ongoing
**1912 context properties, adding missing API
**PYSIDE-1951 super().__lt__ global solution ongoing
**NumPy dependencies are moved to Shiboken (pyqtgraph discussion)
**[https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-2206 PYSIDE-2206] QML examples/tutorials revamping
**General refactoring
**PYSIDE-2221 Python runs NoGil version of mandelbrot.py 7.7 times faster on a 10-code M1 machine
**1912 unique_ptr issues
**[https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-2288 PYSIDE-2288] Fixed Clang 16 support for 6.6/6.5.
**1878 pyside-qml tool to quickly prototype/view qml code
**PYSIDE-2310 Crashing without error reporting in Qt-based threads, debugging
**Research on support for new platforms
**PYSIDE-2299 Ongoing, current attempt fixes most tests but leaves some SegFaults, might be a dead-end.
**Attempting to use PyTest instead of unittest
**Missing PyIndex_Check in 3.7 issue


===5. May 2022===
===27. April 2023===


*General
**Planning collaboration with other projects like Kivy, towards a better mobile support.
**QtWS talks submitted
**PyConES, PyConPT, PyConAPAC
**Qt for Android catching up meeting
**Bug fixing week
*Infra & Releases
*Infra & Releases
**Starting new commercial branch for 6.2 LTS, 6.2.4 was the last OSS 6.2 release.
**5.15.8 wrong source code was published PYSIDE-2297
**Preparing new 5.15.4 OSS package (according to the KDE Free Qt Foundation)
*Bugs & Features
*Bugs & Features
**Python 3.7 PyIndex_Check issue to be addressed in 6.2 and 6.3
*PYSIDE-1951 super() and `__lt__` operator issue related to our wrapper.
**Research and improvements on the Raspberry Pi story
*asyncio work continues
**QtWebEngine: Missing setCookieFilter and setNotificationPresenter
*enhancements for python-for-android to improve the android stories
**Can't use category based logging from PySide
*pyside6-android-deploy polished as well
**Continue research on deployment story
*2299 memory leak might have special cases related to the callback
**1880 DataVisualization + NumPy
*clang16 is giving some issues in Qt
**1898 QMetaObject.invokeMethod with arguments not possible
*Icon examples libraries for the python examples research
**1901 Enum "QVariantList" passed to Property breaks property datatype
*Snippet translator improvements
**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===
===20. April 2023===


*Bugs & Features
*Bugs & Features
**Fixed [https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-1895 PYSIDE-1895], strings with 0 chars.
**Work on support for clang 16, which changes behavior quite a bit
**Diagnosed [https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-1893 PYSIDE-1893], object deletion with lambdas.
**Fixed [https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-2284 PYSIDE-2284] issue with NoneType
**Worked on [https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-1859 PYSIDE-1859], native Win handles
**Fixed [https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-2285 PYSIDE-2285] Type hints / Tuples
**Continued [https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-1880 PYSIDE-1880] QDataVisualization
**Fixed [https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-2298 PYSIDE-2298] and others, fixed some missing 6.5 API
**String migration of the code according to [https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/QTBUG-98434 QTBUG-98434] and related cleanups
**Added new tools - pyside6-qmlsc (commercial only) and pyside6-qmlcachegen
**Improved isolation between tests and __feature__ settings, reset() method implemented.
**Simplified tool adding process
**Migration to PyEnum [https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-1735 PYSIDE-1735] is now error-free:
**PySide6 to Android Deployment blog published 🤞
***qformlayout_test.py gives phantasy values when no elements exist. Python enums can't handle that.
**[https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-1564 PYSIDE-1564] Final approach was implemented with a new super() class. But This approach was not helpful. Issue finally closed.
**[https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-1951 PYSIDE-1951] A solution was finally found and implemented. Trying to improve.
**[https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-2304 PYSIDE-2304] Issue resolved, Cooperative Multiple Inheritance explained with a custom example, customer is happy
**[https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-2299 PYSIDE-2299] Cause for memory leak has been found, but fix will not be trivial (might require extensive refactoring in worst case).
**Debugging QtAsyncIoEventLoop, partly functional but still early.


===21. April 2022===
===13. April 2023===


*General
**SF 24.04 -> 16.05 ooo
**CM 19.04 -> 27.04 ooo
**QtCreator beta now includes an extra option to create virtual environments
*Infra & Releases
*Infra & Releases
**6.2.4 is the las OSS release, 6.2 LTS being prepared
**6.5.0 released, but one missing DLL on windows for people without hw acceleration.
**6.3.x will continue as the new OSS release.
***To be fixed in 6.5.1
**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.
**6.2.8 LTS to be released this week
*Bug & Features
**Improving current state of the maintenance tool for Python
**QDataVisualization + ItemModel request for data handling (performance discussion), issues seems to be on the C++ implementation of the module.
**Second version of the packages in the server
**https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-1859 Windows handle classes issue
**https://discuss.python.org/t/pep-684-a-per-interpreter-gil/19583
**Found some issues with previous setuptools versions on Linux
**https://discuss.python.org/t/pep-711-pybi-a-standard-format-for-distributing-python-binaries/25547
**1890 fixing cmake build for the new __all__ resolution.
**Qt Design Studio integration is on research
**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.
*Bugs & Features
**Improving tests overall (due to the enum changes)
**Type hints PYSIDE-2284 issue with NoneType
**2283 Platform dependencies into our docs
**Clang16 improvements to be compatible
**Research on the missing DLL issue on Windows
**Research on a memory leak possible related to Signal instances.
**asyncio debugging with a self-made event loop
**Improving the python-for-android changes to prepare a patch
**Technical Preview blog post for Android in the making
**PYSIDE-2294 multiple inheritance issue for a corner case with positional arguments
***Researching a new approach that could improve things further


===14. April 2022===
===6. April 2023===


*General
**New Python releases 3.11.3, 3.10.11
*Infra & Releases
*Infra & Releases
**6.3 was released: https://www.qt.io/blog/qt-for-python-details-on-the-new-6.3-release
**6.5.0 released
**6.3 was branched
**6.2.8 commercial LTS to go out soon
**Review Maitenance Tool integration
**qtpip server configuration still in progress
*Bugs & Features
*Bugs & Features
**Continue the research on qml plugins and deployment story
**Android: preparing post, tests, and general improvements.
**Refactoring and improvements to the build_scripts
**PYSIDE-2266 venv issue with the deployment tool.
**Python Qt Enums in progress, still some hard-to-find issues to solve
**Documentation was released for 6.5.0 and many things were polished.
**1627 issue regarding QAction API related to QMenu
**Async: continue working on the event loop wrapper implementation.
**Shiboken refactorings
**Research on memory leak that pyqtgraph found
**1883 QTest issues
**Brushing up tutorials: expenses
**1880 Request for 3D ItemModel functionality -> added new examples
**Adding new examples: simplebrowser, screen capture
**Smart pointers and std::optional support
**Documentation: found some issues with qdoc (from the move of examples to auto tests)
**PYSIDE-2278 type hinting issue was fixed
**Improvements to the documentation
**Cleaning imports from examples
**Add isort to the development guide
**Exploring other projects where Python can shine


===7. April 2022===
===30. March 2023===


*General
*Infra & Releases
*Infra & Releases
**New commercial 5.15 releases, difficulties with libclang 12
**6.5 to be released next week
**_Py_Mangle issues on >=5.15.4 to be included in 5.15.4 source packages (and others)
**including requirements.txt along the commercial bundle
**Branching 6.3 in the next days.
***research if possible retroactively
**qtpip research continues
*Bugs & Features
*Bugs & Features
**PYSIDE-1876 qmlparserstatus issue fixed
**Features that needs to be in before 6.5
**Fix TOC doc issue and adapt new qtbase changes
***deployment tool nuitka patch
**refactorings to reduce size of generated code
***android tool
**smartpointers improvements, adding tests and tuning implementation
***tutorial of thew new quick styled app
**PYSIDE-1878 improving qml and python interaction (plugins)
**Improving enums to avoid using the old implementation
**Working on the new Qt Python Enums approach (will be a TP with a compile time option)
**Deployment tool and android research continues
**Improve some issues on 5.15.x regarding Python 3.10 compatibility (_Py_Mangle)
**Async research on asyncio and trio proper integration
**Refactoring
**Shiboken examples are not displayed on the docs
**Updating the new image of the project
**Re-porting multimedia examples, simplebrowser
**Initial support for permission API
**small fixes on metaobjectdump


===31. March 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
*Bugs & Features
**PYSIDE-187O fixed.
**async support continues.
**Wheel size reduction - new flag --no-size-optimization - ready to merge.
**Fixing a couple of issues related to the pyside6-deploy tool.
**pyqmlscene  (starts with PySide6QmlPlugin) in the working. Requirements gathering from Qml team.
***venv compatibility
**shiboken6-genpyi was fixed (was not functional after the Python virtualization)
***qml apps are not properly working
**adaptation of PySide6.__all__ after the wheel split, still a problem not understood
**android support almost ready for TP
**PYSIDE-1735: Use Python Enums to handle Qt Enum. Making fast progress.
**PYSIDE-2261 cython signature module incompatibility fixed
**PYSIDE-535: completing PyPy documentation to introduce the project for 6.3
**Removed goto from PySide
**[https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-1874 PYSIDE-1874] SIGSEGV when accessing __doc__ of a Property fixed
**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


===24. March 2022===
===16. March 2023===


*General
**Preparing submissions for Europython
**New company colors
*Infra & Releases
*Infra & Releases
**6.2.4 was released
**6.4.3 release next week (no release branch)
**5.15.3 sources were updated to include pyside2-tools, and 3.10 compatibility.
**Issues with Nuitka 1.5.1 (released yesterday) and the CI didn't like it. Pining 1.5
**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
*Bugs & Features
**Research on reducing wheel sizes via compiling flags and other things.
**qtpip: add support for many other operators (for versions)
**REG PYSIDE-1870 still in progress
**PYSIDE-2254 exit crash issue was fixed
**Fixing doc issues, and sphinx related changes.
**PYSIDE-2251 designer issue when not initializing virtual environment.
**1862 top level cmake build fixed
**qmlsurface example ported (polishing the C++ code as well)
**1868 crash on frame buffer (factory function)
**example icons: discussions to standardize them a bit
**Adapting to changes in Qt/C++
**android research: fixing some issues with qtquick
**share_ptr handling refactoring to write independently of the platform
**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.
**wheel_tester issue on macos was fixed (scriptableapplication building with qmake only), it uses cmake and ninja now.
**PYSIDE-2255 virtual method issue related to access to those members.
**Issue in pyside6 re-introduced an old issue: https://codereview.qt-project.org/c/pyside/pyside-setup/+/401438
**Generalization of QApplication usage on the tests.
**Continue with the work on Enums in PySide
**Research: Add course to QtLearn related to Qt for Python
**Improvements to the create wheel process
**doc: some links are broken.
**doc: migration to sphinx-design from sphinx-panels


===17. March 2022===
===9. March 2023===


*General
*General
**Packing use-cases
**Europython CfP: https://ep2023.europython.eu/cfp
*Infra & Releases
*Infra & Releases
**6.2.4 release is ready to be out today.
**Preparing 5.15.13: release might be today if nothing goes wrong.
**LTS 5.15.3 source code will be re-uploaded due to missing pyside2-tools
**Wheel bundles on the account.qt.io, and soon to be available in the Maintenance Tool
*Bugs & Features
*Bugs & Features
**QmlExtension research for PySide projects
**Re-added QtLocation
**Research for new ideas to improve PySide and Shiboken
**Added larger examples for QtLocation, QtDataVisualization
**Stripping binaries a bit to reduce wheel size
**Android research continues, preparing a TP
**QtPropertyMap is not exposed
**https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-2169 Leak related to AsyncIO was finally fixed: related to the new Enum implementation
**Update the documentation (Signal/Slots, modules desc, and more)
***PyErr_Fetch/Restore does ref counting, and not borrow ref
**Replacing count() functions by size() internally.
**qtpip works continues
**Improving the testing framework (special cases for apple silicon)
**https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-79 bug signal instance: fixed most if not all possible errors.
**PYSIDE-1843: Continue fixing failing tests for PyPy
**https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-1403 pyi still produces something not fully working with IDEs
**Research: Improvements to Qt Enums to rely on Python Enums
**https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-1564 First version of the implementation of multiple inheritance is working
**Wheel splitting might need a small size increase on PyPi
***Not a general solution, but a good approach (compatible with a competitor).
***Working on a full support to handle multiple inheritance


===10. March 2022===
===2. March 2023===


*General
*General
**Position still open and many candidates in the pipeline.
**Preparing internal/external material
**Next monday CI maintenance break
*Infra & Releases
*Infra & Releases
**Python CI version updates: 3.8 (linux) 3.7 (win) mac (3.9)
**commercial wheel bundles available on account.qt.io
**PyPy issues on the CI being addressed, almost fully functional.
**6.4.3 release was postponed
**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
*Bugs & Features
**Research on new PySide features on-going, extra things, internals, and performance
**Improvements for qtpip
**QtNfc module was added
**postEvent() memory leak still has an unknown origin
**qFuzzyCompare issue was fixed
**PYSIDE-2236 QMetaMethod.fromSignal added
**Improvements on the shiboken containers parsing
**PYSIDE-2237 be careful with using reserved words in examples/docs/...
**Compatibility with older python version and pypy tests
**PYSIDE-2239 opaquecontainers wrong dunder name
**QmlPropertyMap issue was fixed
**PYSIDE-2206 Examples revamping
**Still fixing tests for PyPy and new Qt builds
***Maybe we keep some examples around even if they are removed in Qt/C++
***New issues were found, but many were fixes. At the moment: 14 in Core, and 18 in all the modules
**Android work continues! looking good with 6.5
**New wheel structure being discussed: splitting the big wheels into at least two
**PYSIDE-1564 Multiple inheritance story was improved, still in progress.


===3. March 2022===
===23. February 2023===


*General
*General
**Giving a talk at Python La Paz (on Saturday) - in Spanish
*Infra & Releases
*Infra & Releases
**6.2.4 ready to be released, but qt was postponed for 15.03.2022
**6.4.3 ready to start the release process
**PyPy CI builds are still being tested
**Change to fix the windows signing is merged
**Next week there will be a CI maintenance break
*Bugs & Features
**Python versions: 3.6 (linux + win) 3.9 (mac) | 3.10 test win
**3.12 compatibility changes will reach 5.15, 6.2, and the future 6.5 LTS
***3.6 will be deprecated in 6.3, so we will change CI versions
**PYSIDE-79 (caused by PYSIDE-68) refcounting issues addressed
***3.8 (win), 3.10 (x), 3.7 (x)
**Continue the 3.12 support because of some new issues found
**6.3 branching still pending a few wheel modifications, and tags.
**PYSIDE-1564: Multiple inheritance support is still being worked (old ABC issues might be related)
*Bug & Features
**Issues with documentation build (sphinx)
**PyPy build on windows presented a few challenges, and PyPy issues were found and reported.
**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)
**pyi generation also had issues due to a virtualenv + windows configurations being wrong, regarding the import orders.
**PYSIDE-2234 adding QRunnableCreate
**Enum refactoring is still in progress.
**fixed 6.5 issues with cross compilation
**container conversion research
**Designer examples revamp
**1835 building 5.15 without limited api
**Works continues on qtpip (a pip wrapper to install commercial wheels)
**qml research on property values, and group properties will be fix as well
**PYSIDE-2232 NixOS issues was fixed (another was deferred)
**research on new opportunities to improve PySide as a Python module
**Research on the std::span support
**re-working the wheel generation
**Unity compilation research continues
**Bug cleanup, closing and fixing old ones.
**OpenGL getProc issue is being worked on.
**PYSIDE-2192 interactive matplotlib issue (hook)


===24. February 2022===
===16. February 2023===


*General
*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
*Infra & Releases
*Bug & Feature
**Branching dev to 6.5 when the Qt/C++ 6.5.0 RC is out (16 Mar '23)
**PYSIDE-1824 BT issue was fixed
***Only fixes go to dev with Pick-to: 6.5 if necessary
**PYSIDE-1826 Image provider
***new features remain in dev (for 6.6)
**PYSIDE-1827 metatype slot pending (metacall handle improvements)
*Bugs & Features
**Research on arguments conversion
**nogil research was positive, and most of our test work. It would require for us to modify the generator for each function/module.
**PYSIDE-1815 set modified parameter function (reddit example)
***mandelbrot example works and improves its performance around 3.5 times.
**PYSIDE-1809 signature modules issues.
**Python 3.12 will include an incompatibility due to the changes in the type generation
**PYSIDE-1821 Byte handling changes
***https://github.com/python/cpython/issues/60074#issuecomment-1430115581
**Research on new ideas for the PySide module
***some other issues were found, but not as critical as the tp_new issue.
**PYSIDE-1705 Property support in constructors (relation with __feature__)
**It will be possible to install pyside6 in conda environments starting from 6.4.3 and 6.5
**PYSIDE-1735 Python Enums to handle Qt Enums (prototypes)
**commercial identifier on commercial wheels will be replaced to be compatible with distutils
***PYSIDE-1731 mypy regression issue (related to enums)
**asyncio research continues
**PyPy work continues, focused on compatibility with the newest version (supporting python 3.9)
**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




===17. February 2022===
===09. February 2023===


*General
*General
**New Documentation Engineer joined the Foundation Area.
**How to make our API better for pathlib?
*Infrastructure & Releases
**3.11.2 released, 3.10.10 as well
**3.10.0 configuration to be tested
**https://peps.python.org/pep-0675/
**Research on improvements for the packages in download.qt.io
*Infra & Releases
**Testing PyPy on the CI
**LTS tags cannot be pushed to community repo (permissions), hopefully in this week.
**Python 3.6 will be deprecated in PySide 6.3 and removed in 6.4
**Maintenance Tool updates soon
**Binary signing still need a little change to be working
**dev to use 6.5 starting today
*Bugs & Features
*Bugs & Features
**Addressing compatibility with other deployment tools.
**Android research in progress, looking good :)
**QmlExtended QmlAttach will be available in 6.3
**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-1812 cross build task custom clang options
**PYSIDE-2222 custom widget plugin, load with uic crash
**Research with C++20 to build pyside, and vector call new API in 3.9+
**PYSIDE-2201 was fixed: introducing weak references into the SignalInstances.
**PYSIDE-1765 PYSIDE-1763 __feature__ issues were fixed and working on providing support for property in constructors PYSIDE-1705 (a bit more difficult)
**PYSIDE-79 was possible to solve (from PYSIDE-68 solution). Still needs to some documentation to be written.
**PYSIDE-1815 QtNetworkAuth.QAbstractOAuth is missing modifyParametersFunction/setModifyParametersFunction
**PYSIDE-2221 research on future compatibility with NoGIL Python https://github.com/colesbury/nogil https://peps.python.org/pep-0703/
**PYSIDE-1821 Add support for std::byte
**https://github.com/blueloveTH/pocketpy also interesting
**PYSIDE-1809 wrong name type annotation for setProperty() and property()


===10. February 2022===
===02. February 2023===


*General
*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
*Bugs & Features
**[https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-1806 PYSIDE-1806] CMake version check fixed
**Unity builds were helping pyside/shiboken, and some tests are being done in qt/c++
**[https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-1804 PYSIDE-1804] Big endian test failure fixed
**meta task on revamping examples in the Qt Project
**Work in progress to add further QML decorators
**Adding uic functionality and documentation
**[https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-1702 PYSIDE-1702] snake_case handling now does explicitly not touch user defined classes.
**Doc reviews, some issues were found
**[https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-1758 PYSIDE-1758] Leave the underscore variable alone in QApplication
**Android development continues, and looks good!
**[https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-535 PYSIDE-535] Remove a disambiguation patch no longer needed
**introducing --log-level to change --verbose-build and --quiet
**[https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-1765 PYSIDE-1765] Widget subclass' minimumSizeHint not called with true_property
**Overhaul of Signal/SignalInstance continues:
**Work in progress on: [https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-1753 PYSIDE-1753] setStyleSheet available even if snake_case (complex)
***[https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-2201 PYSIDE-2201] Weak Reference handling is complete
***[https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-79 PYSIDE-79] Research on Reference bug continues
**create_wheels.py --builddir to explicitly provide build directory
**WIP: QtAsyncIoEventLoop using Qt's event dispatcher, using BaseEventLoop and BaseSelectorEventLoop for guidance


===03. February 2022===
===26. January 2023===


*General
*Infra & Releases
*Infra & Releases
**6.2.3 was released.
**Fixed issues with Windows signing
**Waiting for a scheduled CI break on Monday
**OSS packages for 5.15.3 source to be available soon.
*Bugs & Features
*Bugs & Features
**Updating new Qt dev API (targeting 6.4)
**Fixed [https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-2204 PYSIDE-2204 qt.conf encoding]
**Adjusting a designer issue with a crash on views
**Fixed bugs in pyside6-metaobjectdump (QML) [https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-2202 PYSIDE-2202] , [https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-2203 PYSIDE-2203]
**Improving examples: Old OpenGL API
**PYSIDE-2194: Possibly requires refactoring of QLowEnergyController to use the new WinRT API, instead of COM API
**PYSIDE-1801 signal crash issue addressed
**Android Deployment - Patches incoming to automate cross compilation to produce android wheels
**PYSIDE-1804 QByteArray issue
**Overhaul of Signal/SignalInstance
**Improving QML: getting some issues with QML_ATTACHED
***Implement Weak Reference Handling
**Writing PyPy Documentation to explain motivation, changes, and usage.
***[https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-2201 PYSIDE-2201] Handle early destruction of the object better
**PyPy Compatibility:
***[https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-79 PYSIDE-79] Trying to finally fix the reference leak using weakref.
***Got nice performance results with the working mandelbrot example
**Alternative approach to Anaconda issue: Register internal qt6.conf with site-packages prefix (still WIP).
***Still working on some last tests that are not properly working.
**WIP: Implement class QtAsyncIoEventLoop(asyncio.AbstractEventLoop) that wraps around Qt's event loop to enable Qt + asyncio.
**PYSIDE-1798 fixing enum issue
**Memory leak with current asyncio example (or space leak?)
**Continue the work on the python-lsp issues on QtCreator


===27. January 2022===
===19. January 2023===


*General
*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
**Hackathon in TQtC
**The WebAssembly PySide Team was almost doubled in size (+1 brain, +1 hand)
*Infra & Releases
*Infra & Releases
**6.2.3 to be release soon.
**Windows signing to be improved.
**LTS releases into oss repo: some issues appeared but will be merged soon.
*Bugs & Features
*Bugs & Features
**Qt Creator LSP issue has an initial solution
**PYSIDE-1994: De-virtualization of Shiboken embedded Python files is now an option controlled dynamically by SBK_EMBED
**Curating a list of new features for Shiboken
***PYSIDE-1019: A dormant __feature__ initialization timing problem was fixed while implementing de-virtualization
**Working on an issue related to help() function on top of custom modules
**PYSIDE-1735: De-coupling of old and new enums was started
**PYSIDE-1057 memory leak in progress
**PYSIDE-1564: Debugging of multiple inheritance continues
**Fixing examples to be compatible with PyPy and addressing corner cases
**Fixed some bluetooth functions in PySide6.
**QPainter was transformed into a context manager
**Low Energy Scanner Example
**Building pyside with PyPy 3.8 is possible (3.9 is still in alpha)
**PYSIDE-2194: Progressing with this. Definitely a thread issue which allow-thread doesn't seem to fix.
**Working on a new tree example
**Possible solution for problems with PySide6 inside conda (compat package with qt6.conf file), but investigating if best solution
**1788 allow-thread issue with event functions
**Add threaded OpenGL example
**Add data()/constData() to OpaqueContainers
**Continue work on QML integration


===20. January 2022===
===12. January 2023===


*General
*General
**Next week is Hackathon, meeting will be shorter
**Discussion on how to gather information, and sharing material around Qt for Python
*Infra & Releases
*Infra & Releases
**6.2.3 release next week
**6.5 RC planning -> feature freeze for PySide
**Waiting a bit before branching 6.3
**6.4.2 was released last Monday
**CMake Jumbo builds issue with Windows signing
**LTS branches to land in pyside-setup soon
*Bugs & Features
*Bugs & Features
**QtCreator Python LSP issue to be worked on
**Async examples: addressing memory leak and cpu usage due to the event loop interactions
**Continue with the research related to new Shiboken features.
**Review conda packaging story and PySide6
**Fixing general bugs from support
**De-virtualization of Python files: still some issues
**Adapting new API for 6.3
**Incompatibility with pywin32: __feature__ related when trying to check if the ext module uses PySide. Also related to an issue with the inspect module.
**Improving QML story with custom types
**Installing PySide6.support via CMake (was previously not considered)
**PyPy compatibility is focused on making some last examples to work, some issues with PyPy are being found as well.
**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.


===13. January 2022===
===5. January 2023===


*General
**Next monday CI maintenance
**OKRs
*Infra & Releases
*Infra & Releases
**Maintenance in the CI, still a few things to be improved.
**5.15.12 LTS, 6.2.7 LTS released
**New version of Gerrit is available as well.
**Open Source LTS releases to be moved to the pyside-setup
**5.15.8 Commercial LTS was released
**6.4 CI hanging, issues on lts-5.15 due to Python
**5.15.2.1 to be release soon, special version with Python 3.10 support
**6.4.2 to be release in the following days
*Bugs and Features
*Bugs & Features
**PYSIDE-1755 Fixing issues with __code__ (related to slots)
**PYSIDE-1931 SQL issue regarding allow-thread
**Improved documentation
**helping 6.5 translations
**Looking for new features for Shiboken
**Adaptations with 6.5
**Working on improving the LSP story on QtCreator https://github.com/python-lsp/python-lsp-jsonrpc/issues/5
**QSharedPointer -> std::shared_ptr attempt
**PYSIDE-1764 suggestion on avoid the generation/wrapping of methods within objects.
**research on adding std::span into shiboken
**PYSIDE-1730 signal/method namespace crash, generated by old fixes on old bugs.
**PYSIDE-2160 properties qml types issues
**Add capacity/reserve functions to OpaqueContainers
**Tutorials language review
**QML references examples issues, to discover missing details on the qml interaction
**Android research continues
**Clarifying the conversion rules on the typesystem: native, target
**QTBUG-109510 BTLE issue on pyside
**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


==2022==


===06. January 2022===
*[[Qt for Python Development Notes 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==

Latest revision as of 18:05, 21 September 2023

2023

21. September 2023

  • General
    • Python 3.12.0rc3 is out, final release scheduled for October 2
  • Infra & Releases
    • 6.6 branched
    • 6.5.3 preparations
  • Bugs & Features
    • Fixed PYSIDE-2465 (3.11.5 test fail)
    • Work on PYSIDE-2462 (smart pointer features)
    • Refactored options parsing of shiboken
    • Fixed clang-tidy static analysis issues
    • Android permissions API: Adapt more C++ examples
    • Couple more cleanups and additions to pyside6-android-deploy
    • More manual testing of pyside6-android-deploy. Need to write more integration (mocks) for Android deployment.
    • Final cleanup and resolving tests for python-for-android Qt for Python patch
    • PYSIDE-2468 -requestPermission() on macOS. Tricky scenario similar to PYSIDE-2419
    • asyncio's requirement to use ThreadPoolExecutor keeps screwing us over, but resolution close

14. September 2023

  • Infra & Releases
    • Testing and fixing qtpip for commercial wheels
  • Bugs & Features
    • PYSIDE-2460 Work on some OpenGL issues, updated hellogl2 example
    • PYSIDE-2461 Build system for cross build fixes
    • PYSIDE-2463 Fixed some type hints
    • Android auto sdk and nkd download merged.
    • Requestpermission API and all android changes set for 6.6 merged. Will write tests in the meantime and do some manual testing with deploying apps.
    • patchelf removal for Qfp binaries merged.

07. September 2023

  • General
    • Majority of the team on holiday
  • Infra & Releases
    • Preparing 6.2.10, 6.5.3, 6.6.0
  • Bugs & Features
    • PYSIDE-2393 pytest problem with feature is fixed
    • PYSIDE-2428 feature problem caused long search, has to be fixed in matplotlib
    • Fixed PYSIDE-2444 QState.assignProperty - incorrect type annotation
    • Fixed PYSIDE-2454 Default argument is not used for containers
    • Added some number protocol slots PYSIDE-2446
    • Research on submodules PYSIDE-2447
    • qtpip for commercial wheels polishing touches

31. August 2023

  • General
    • Python 3.11.5 released
    • PyCon Spain talk was accepted - Adrian giving a talk for the new Async story, in October.
    • People on leave in September
    • FF on Qt for Python overview
  • Infra & Releases
    • Planning 6.6 for the last days of September
      • Maintenance Tool update for qt for python
      • Features until 12.09
        • Feature issues + multiple inheritance
        • Async story needs some testing
        • Android patches (new modules, plugins, permissions, etc)
        • qtpip for commercial wheels
        • new QtCreator templates?
    • 6.2.10 Commercial LTS and 6.5.3
  • Bugs & Features
    • Lazy imports still in progress, might be available for 6.7
    • QmlSingleton crash was fixed
    • JIRA was cleaned a bit, many invalid issues
    • Signal signatures were adjusted
    • PYSIDE-748 additional parameter metamethod (old issue)
    • QDataStream read/write data accepting bytes too
    • New CMake Qt API has lots of features for qml, resources, etc which might not be too compatible with Qt for Python.
    • PYSIDE-2429 macOS deployment min version fixed
    • patchelf removal is ready to merge (motivated by android research)
    • android: permission API, need some extra testing. Soon ready for review.
    • QIODevice buffer object issue was fixed, and is waiting for review (motivated by the async story)
    • qtpip development continues.

24. August 2023

  • General
    • New board on JIRA to reflect our work clearly https://bugreports.qt.io/secure/RapidBoard.jspa?rapidView=262&view=planning.nodetail&issueLimit=100
    • Qt Meetups are starting to popup in Berlin and other countries! we might join some of them.
    • Discussions around improving the Qt Creator experience and UI creation in general.
    • There has been some motivation from Qt/C++ to use more CMake in projects (like for resources), which is negatively affecting the Python projects, due to the lack of CMake in the Python projects.
  • Infra & Releases
    • Commercial LTS 5.15.15 to be released soon.
    • 6.5.3 scheduled for the first week of September
  • Bugs & Features
    • QIODevice::read(char*, qint64) functions are removed, but they are useful for the asyncio story. Discussion on if it's worth exposing them.
    • More changes related to QtAsyncIO are ready for review.
    • PYSIDE-2417 overflow issue was fixed
    • [ot] i18n in the Qt framework
    • PYSIDE-2418 connection issue with python overloads
    • 6.6 documentation has some issues due to the QtGraph new module
    • PYSIDE-2423 connecting signals to python callable doesn't properly work - trying to find a proper solution
    • PYSIDE-2424 Installing shiboken in a non-standard way discussion - it might not be properly fixed.
    • Next Wednesday 10am: session about Shiboken + QtScrypt status
    • PYSIDE-2419 locale issue on macOS due to the Info.plist that python includes that overrides the QLocale settings. A bug report was filed upstream, and a workaround is suggested.
    • PYSIDE-2421 webengine issue was discussed, it's an Qt/C++ chromium issue.
    • CMake FindPython patches are still being worked out, the wrong interpreter is being found.
    • patchelf removal is causing some issues with cross compilation.
    • qtpip works continues.

17. August 2023

  • Bugs & Features
    • Investigating on PyPySide MI segfault postponed but on To-Do list PYSIDE-1991
    • PYSIDE-2404 More Progress in Lazy Initialization
      • the optional __getattr__ in module objects was successfully implemented (but is seldom used)
      • lazy init of Enums is probably no more needed, covered by the import scheme below
      • most common cases like "from PySide6.QtWidgets import QLabel" supported by another __import__ override
      • Keep your fingers crossed, testing starts today
    • PYSIDE-2419 QLocale::language() returns wrong on macOS.
      • Caused by QLocale infrastructure which looks at Info.plist inside the Python interpreter macOS bundle.
      • Working on a hack fix after consulting Tor Arne and Eddy.
    • Pacthelf removal - cross compilation breaks. Working on a fix.
    • PYSIDE-2421 - QWebEngineView.print() - rerouted to Qt
      • But, might requires an ownership fix in Shiboken once QTBUG-116052 is resolved
    • Research - use the .debug files provided by the Qt installer to debug from VSCode.
      • Saves time from not building Qt everytime
      • Still ongoing
    • QtAsyncio: Implementation of asyncio.Server (one open question remains - asyncio API and Qt API don't always match as cleanly as desirable).

10. August 2023

  • General
  • Infra & Releases
  • Bugs & Features
    • Patchelf removal only partially possible because of using patchelf on prebuilt Qt binaries.
      • For Qfp binaries patchelf removal under review. MacOS issue being fixed. This is needed for Android.
    • Shiboken module cmake installation bug fixed.
    • Progressing with Android C++ to Python callback, now that Qfp binaries could be loaded on startup.
    • Further investigating on PyPySide MI segfault PYSIDE-1991
    • PYSIDE-2404 Progress in Lazy Initialization
      • the new dual registration is done and builds the base for concrete lazy init
      • lazy init of Enums postponed because
      • an undocumented optional __getattr__ in module objects makes it much easier to lazy-load whole classes, first.

3. August 2023

  • General
    • New reports board
    • QtCreator support
    • Integration cycle on gerrit overview
  • Infra & Releases
    • CI down next Monday for a few hours
    • First tests on linux arm64
    • Preparing 5.15.15 Commercial LTS
    • qtpip first trials on the CI
  • Bugs & Features
    • Async research continues, new things are being discovered while is being developed
      • Implementing a few new things for improving the support
      • Initial patch got merged, but a few others are in the making
    • Team contributing to QtAcademy
    • SQL queries issues, inconsistencies in the API were fixed
    • Build with ninja had some problems regarding mixing stdout and stderr
    • Testing initial support for rvalues
    • 2272 fixing signatures for some qmlRegister* functions
    • Examples: new mediaplayer was fully ported
    • Example gallery scans now a doc directory for images
    • Some other multimedia examples are pending for review
    • Team contributing to Qt translations
    • Adjusting the deployment tool, and fixing issues with pyenv, and upgrading nuitka
    • CMake: adjusting the files to use the new API for finding python, reducing our cmake files
      • Considering also the removal of patchelf, and follow the cmake approach
    • Lazy initialization of enums is showing a good improvement on the performance

27. July 2023

  • General
    • Shyam wrote trip report to Europython
    • Some vacations starting soon for some team members
    • Got some cool t-shirts (internal only so far) - Is there interest for merch?
  • Infra & Releases
    • 6.5.2 released
    • Some LTS releases soon as well
    • Issues on the CI (RHEL8.6) and python interpreter.
    • Formalization of release besides wheels on PyPI and account.qt.io
    • Soon to enable CI on qtpip
  • Bugs & Features
    • [ext] designer issue, translations
    • PYSIDE-2402 QtHttpServer module was missing on Windows
    • QSql methods were un-deprecated (module seems to need more love)
    • Port QtGraph example
    • AsyncIO module: there is a second change in preparation
    • Finally the android issue we had was solved. It seems that patchelf was breaking our binaries, and now we are using a cmake approach instead.
    • Enable unity builds for android
    • Nuitka will be pinned to a recent version
    • PYSIDE-2404 lazy loader research
  • Interesting projects we checked

20. July 2023

  • General
    • Two team members @ Europython 2023
  • Infra & Releases
  • Bugs & Features
    • Implementing transports and protocols of asyncio API
    • Lazy importer still under development. Ongoings:
      • necessary to register all types without creating them
      • turning all PyTypeObject into PyTypeObject valued functions
      • quite hard because deeply buried in the generated code

13. July 2023

  • General
    • CI is not behaving, so be cautious
    • 3.12 beta 4 was released
    • Next week some people are going to Europython
  • Infra & Releases
    • 6.5.2 still in progress, waiting to have the RC wheels
  • Bugs & Features
    • Qt Akademy to prepare a Qt for Python course
    • Examples: we might adapt our gallery to https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/QTBUG-115174
    • Android: callback issue from C++ to Python, some ideas are around, but the problem persists.
      • Might be related to the usage of patchelf.
    • Research on Lazy loader continues
      • Some ideas are behaving well at the moment, but still being tested.
      • We might need to discover some classes that we cannot initialize lazily (manual code injection, need init before usage)
    • We need some reviews for the eventloop patch (asyncio)
    • An enum class with an issue for stubs.
    • qtpip work continues
    • Some good-first-issue are planned for the project, so more contributors can join us!

6. July 2023

  • General
    • PySide 6.6 will support Python 3.8+
    • Python 3.12 support will be back-ported to 6.5 only, and not 6.2
  • Infra & Releases
    • 6.2.9 commercial lts was released yesterday.
    • 6.5.2 RC wheels to be tested.
    • 5.15 open commercial lts tags are in the pyside/pyside-setup repo.
    • qtpip configuration file being improved and updated
    • ARM CI host configuration continues
  • Bugs & Features
    • Removal of old enums was finished
    • Starting to work with lazy loaders for enums
    • First iteration of the asyncio support for the qt eventloop, tests are being prepared.
    • PYSIDE-2370 cross compilation issue, might be related to host python, provided some options to try.
    • Android issue, we cannot get C++ callbacks to Python. Might be related to a python version incompatibility.
    • Preparing a contribution back to python-to-android
    • Rewriting some enum code
    • Add mediaplayer demo in qtdoc for python (some issues with qml)
    • Add document viewer qtdoc example
    • PYSIDE-2381 QSettings issue
    • pyside6-lupdate issues related to encoding.
    • qtpip works continues

29. June 2023

  • General
    • Next maintenance break in August.
  • Infra & Releases
    • 6.5.2 postponed until next week
    • 6.2.9 Commercial LTS soon to be released (a new qt build)
    • 5.15.15 LTS in the next weeks
    • ARM CI host still in progress
    • Brainstorming some additional matrix testing infra for Python versions
    • Tags for OSS and new LTS public releases (IFW ticket)
  • Bugs & Features
    • Research on scripting continues
    • Designer related features/ QtCreator
    • Memory leak related to REG is solved
    • New icon theme for examples coming
    • Some qdoc examples might be enabled for Python
    • Enum removal is still generating detail discussions
      • Two implementation versions are suggested.
      • The old ones were written in C++ so the startup time is a lot slower
      • Lazy generator is helping a A LOT
    • Android dev build - unity had some complications
    • Async event loop work, last issues were addressed.
      • still some network io features are missing
    • [Research] PySide components for QtDS needs to follow QtDS release cycle rather than Qt.


21. June 2023

  • General
    • PyPI limit increase for PySide6-Addons
    • PySide 6.6 might have support for Python 3.8+ (due to Python 3.7 EOL in a week)
    • Python 3.12b3 is out - test!
    • Qt Contributor Summit
      • General session + maybe another one for specific topics.
  • Infra & Releases
    • 6.2.9 is ready, but waiting for Qt/c++ release
    • 6.5.2 release date is next week.
    • Tags for OSS and new LTS public releases
  • Bugs & Features
    • Android research: extra functionality is there, and working on bluetooth/permission integration with a device (example)
    • PYSIDE-2364 Invalid syntax on a pyi file
    • Continue with the old enum removal.
      • Maybe delayed initialization to improve startup time.
    • AsyncIO eventloop work continues
    • Research for scripting continues
    • 6.6 adaptations
    • Fix Enum issue with clang with invalid hex

15. June 2023

  • General
    • Going to EuroPython
    • Participation in Qt Academy
  • Infra & Releases
    • 6.2.9 LTS to be released
    • NFS issues in the CI, being worked on.
    • ARM host on CI experiencing some issues.
      • Some preliminary wheels were generated in order to test.
      • Might help the Android story, but this needs to be confirmed.
  • Bugs & Features
    • Async research revisited
      • Testing eventloop wrapping
    • Memory leak issue still needs to be fixed (hopefully for 6.5.2)
    • Examples in Qt revamp
    • Translations and fixes for 6.6
    • Discussion about Enums implementation
    • Scripting on C++ research continues
    • PYSIDE-1735 removing old enums continues
    • Android improvements in review
      • Adding more modules
    • QVariant enum change (temporary patch until Qt7)
    • shiboken_generator research to make it publicly available (libclang dependency)

8. June 2023

  • General
    • Python 3.11.4 released, 3.12.0beta2
    • PySide6-addons reaching the 10G limit on PyPI
  • Infra & Releases
    • 6.5.1.1 released due to a regression (introduced by a mem leak fix)
    • Maintenance Tool > wheels
      • Special case for M2M protocols to be tested
    • CI on arm64 continues (Linux and Windows)
  • Bugs & Features
    • Fixed some type-hint related issues PYSIDE-2357/PYSIDE-2331/PYSIDE-2340
    • Scripting research
    • Qt pip tool has updated the configuration file and wheels to continue the work on the new tool
    • QVariant PyEnum issue -> solution for review
    • Android work continues: improving the dependency detection
    • PYSIDE-2335 unraisable is finally checked in (the current solution works, it could be improved but low prio -> xml definitions)
    • PYSIDE-2354 type error due to the usage of Generic (related to 939) - related to cpython issue
    • PYSIDE-1735 old enums removal started
    • Example tunings
    • Bug fixing week

1. Juni 2023

  • General
    • Europython - call for first time speakers (open to anyone)
    • Waiting until API review to move dev to 6.6
    • New Epic/User Stories policy
    • Participating into Qt Academy
  • Infra & Releases
    • 6.5.1 released, a leak fix is causing issues with signal connections.
      • Initially we thought it was purely functools.partial but there are other cases that are not working.
      • Testing alternative solutions, otherwise we revert
      • In any case a 6.5.1.1 will be out soon
    • Need to test the new conf file for the commercial wheel install mechanism
    • 5.15 needs to skip libclang16
    • Testing maintenance tool with a license without Qt for Automation (for wheel check)
    • JIRA release versions are pending.
  • Bugs & Features
    • (External) Designer fonts issues
    • PYSIDE-2347 metaobject tool missing types
    • Scxml events missing connections.
    • Scripting research (check report)
    • Leak research continue
    • Issue with new example state machine to be solved (event handling)
    • PYSIDE-1930 PYSIDE-2239 QVariant Enum issue, the fix is out, but we need some tests.
    • Finish the problem with unraisable exceptions
      • Discussion on special cases with a run function
      • Blocking functions are still an issue, because we cannot break
    • PYSIDE-2354 typing.Generic issue with inheritance in progress
    • PyTest research continues

25. Mai 2023

  • General
    • QtWS - One talk accepted
    • Europython - One talk accepted
  • Infra & Releases
    • 6.5.1 one issue was found, so release will be available once we merge the fix.
    • 5.15.14 to be release soon.
    • CI arm64 experiments continue
    • Asking about M2M wheels on the maintenance tool, for 6.6
    • Solving LTS issues of missing tags on public repo, might take some time.
  • Bugs & Features
    • Evaluating shiboken6_generator to be published on PyPi
    • Few small fixes around the project (release preparation, new features, small bugs, doc issues)
    • QtScrypt experimental work continues
    • Permission API added (motivated by the android support)
    • Improvements for the android deployment.
    • Trying to fix an issue of getting Enums to Ints
    • Delayed exceptions work continues, trying to fix some corner cases still.
    • Starting to explore PEP 658
    • Research on PyTest compatibility
    • [Designer] Fixing some issues, and warnings

18. Mai 2023

  • Infra & Releases
    • 6.5.1 Preparations
    • 5.15.14 Preparations
  • Bugs & Features
    • Fixed PYSIDE-2325 typesystem incomplete
    • Fixed PYSIDE-2328 Segmentation fault/access violation when connecting signal of temporary object
    • Fixed PYSIDE-2329 Signal connections with init kwargs
    • Reverted temporarily the delayed exception patch, in order to not block the 6.5.1 release. This should be discussed at the next meeting

11. Mai 2023

  • General
    • Python Users Berlin meetup talk today
    • Europython, QtWS
    • Qt FF 02.06
    • Android team «ketchup»
    • Example revamp update
      • Quick examples needs to be ported to loadFromModule (Quick3D, QuickLocation, missing)
  • Infra & Releases
  • Bugs & Features
    • Fixing regressions issue related to threads - delayed exceptions
    • https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-2321 event handlers issues
    • https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-1951 virtual method override - still in progress
    • https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-2230 3.12 support
    • nogil research continues - mutex might slow down things, but doing a proper division of the code could help.
    • QML example tutorials - one review pending
    • 2313 longtype issue with numpy
    • examples revamping - loadFromModule
    • Icon library -> icon theme soon available on a new module.
    • PYSIDE-2316 sharedpointer template issues
    • Shiboken refactoring
    • Finally the memory leak is fixed
    • Enhancing android story, detection of modules, finding dependencies, got ideas from the current qt/c++ tool.
    • Build infrastructure, setup.py install has been deprecated since 3.11 - looking into a new build infrastructure.
    • Internal technical talks
      • Shiboken generating bindings
      • Shiboken for documentation generation
      • type hints generation
      • QML integration via decorators

4. Mai 2023

  • General
    • Europython talk by Shyam still under consideration
    • Qt for Android catch up meeting scheduled for 09/05/2023
    • Discussion with kivy developers done on discord. They seem to be onboard with the Qt support.
  • Infra & Releases
  • Bugs & Features
    • Android Deployment Enhancements - Bringing pyside6-android-deploy at the level of androiddeployqt - Ongoing
    • python-for-android PR Enhancements - Ongoing
    • PYSIDE-1951 super().__lt__ global solution ongoing
    • PYSIDE-2206 QML examples/tutorials revamping
    • PYSIDE-2221 Python runs NoGil version of mandelbrot.py 7.7 times faster on a 10-code M1 machine
    • PYSIDE-2288 Fixed Clang 16 support for 6.6/6.5.
    • PYSIDE-2310 Crashing without error reporting in Qt-based threads, debugging
    • PYSIDE-2299 Ongoing, current attempt fixes most tests but leaves some SegFaults, might be a dead-end.

27. April 2023

  • General
    • Planning collaboration with other projects like Kivy, towards a better mobile support.
    • QtWS talks submitted
    • PyConES, PyConPT, PyConAPAC
    • Qt for Android catching up meeting
    • Bug fixing week
  • Infra & Releases
    • 5.15.8 wrong source code was published PYSIDE-2297
  • Bugs & Features
  • PYSIDE-1951 super() and `__lt__` operator issue related to our wrapper.
  • asyncio work continues
  • enhancements for python-for-android to improve the android stories
  • pyside6-android-deploy polished as well
  • 2299 memory leak might have special cases related to the callback
  • clang16 is giving some issues in Qt
  • Icon examples libraries for the python examples research
  • Snippet translator improvements

20. April 2023

  • Bugs & Features
    • Work on support for clang 16, which changes behavior quite a bit
    • Fixed PYSIDE-2284 issue with NoneType
    • Fixed PYSIDE-2285 Type hints / Tuples
    • Fixed PYSIDE-2298 and others, fixed some missing 6.5 API
    • Added new tools - pyside6-qmlsc (commercial only) and pyside6-qmlcachegen
    • Simplified tool adding process
    • PySide6 to Android Deployment blog published 🤞
    • PYSIDE-1564 Final approach was implemented with a new super() class. But This approach was not helpful. Issue finally closed.
    • PYSIDE-1951 A solution was finally found and implemented. Trying to improve.
    • PYSIDE-2304 Issue resolved, Cooperative Multiple Inheritance explained with a custom example, customer is happy
    • PYSIDE-2299 Cause for memory leak has been found, but fix will not be trivial (might require extensive refactoring in worst case).
    • Debugging QtAsyncIoEventLoop, partly functional but still early.

13. April 2023

  • General
    • SF 24.04 -> 16.05 ooo
    • CM 19.04 -> 27.04 ooo
    • QtCreator beta now includes an extra option to create virtual environments
  • Infra & Releases
  • Bugs & Features
    • Type hints PYSIDE-2284 issue with NoneType
    • 2283 Platform dependencies into our docs
    • Clang16 improvements to be compatible
    • Research on the missing DLL issue on Windows
    • Research on a memory leak possible related to Signal instances.
    • asyncio debugging with a self-made event loop
    • Improving the python-for-android changes to prepare a patch
    • Technical Preview blog post for Android in the making
    • PYSIDE-2294 multiple inheritance issue for a corner case with positional arguments
      • Researching a new approach that could improve things further

6. April 2023

  • General
    • New Python releases 3.11.3, 3.10.11
  • Infra & Releases
    • 6.5.0 released
    • 6.2.8 commercial LTS to go out soon
    • Review Maitenance Tool integration
    • qtpip server configuration still in progress
  • Bugs & Features
    • Android: preparing post, tests, and general improvements.
    • PYSIDE-2266 venv issue with the deployment tool.
    • Documentation was released for 6.5.0 and many things were polished.
    • Async: continue working on the event loop wrapper implementation.
    • Research on memory leak that pyqtgraph found
    • Brushing up tutorials: expenses
    • Adding new examples: simplebrowser, screen capture
    • Documentation: found some issues with qdoc (from the move of examples to auto tests)
    • PYSIDE-2278 type hinting issue was fixed
    • Improvements to the documentation
    • Cleaning imports from examples
    • Add isort to the development guide
    • Exploring other projects where Python can shine

30. March 2023

  • General
  • Infra & Releases
    • 6.5 to be released next week
    • including requirements.txt along the commercial bundle
      • research if possible retroactively
    • qtpip research continues
  • Bugs & Features
    • Features that needs to be in before 6.5
      • deployment tool nuitka patch
      • android tool
      • tutorial of thew new quick styled app
    • Improving enums to avoid using the old implementation
    • Deployment tool and android research continues
    • Async research on asyncio and trio proper integration
    • Refactoring
    • Shiboken examples are not displayed on the docs
    • Updating the new image of the project
    • Re-porting multimedia examples, simplebrowser
    • Initial support for permission API
    • small fixes on metaobjectdump


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

2022

2021

2020

2019

2018

Retrieved from "https://wiki-qt-io-staging.herokuapp.com/index.php?title=Qt_for_Python_Development_Notes&oldid=40717"