Requesting New Repositories

This page describes the process for creating new repositories on our Gerrit server.

Please send an email addressed to the development@qt-project.org mailing list. Please include the following information:

• Name and description of the project
• Responsible persons
• Desired repository name (please try to follow existing patterns)
  • All projects which are meant to ultimately end up in the qt distribution should start out in the qt/ namespace.
  • The playground/ namespace is for projects which don't fit any other category.
  • qt-labs/ is a semi-private namespace for employees of The Qt Company. Repositories here can be created without consulting the external community, but using it just as a shortcut is discouraged (migration to the qt/ namespace requires community consultation).
• If migrating from an existing repository, the URL of it, or explicitly say that you are not importing existing history
  • If you import verbatim history, it must comply with Qt's Commit Policy to a reasonable degree. Otherwise, you need to reshape or squash the history, and preferably submit it through the usual code review process.

Oswald Buddenhagen (ossi|tt) and Frederik Gladhorn (fregl) are the server admins who will ultimately execute the request, but please don't try to bypass the process.

Execution Details (for Admins)

• Mirroring to code.qt.io is automatic
• A mirror on github needs to be created manually, and gerrit's replication configuration may need to be adjusted
• Some TQtC sites maintain local mirrors which require manual action
• Repos in the qt/ namespace should be added to the qt5 super repo without much delay (typically without configuring them to be part of the default checkout yet).