[QGIS-Developer] [Qgis-psc] QGIS QT6 meeting minutes

[Alessandro Pasotti]

Thank you for the update.

I'm going to formalize the QT6 plan in the next PSC meeting tomorrow
and then I'll organize another meeting, probably during the hackfest
considering that there are Easter holidays in the middle.



On Mon, Apr 3, 2023 at 5:19 PM Julien Cabieces via QGIS-Developer
<qgis-developer at lists.osgeo.org> wrote:
>
>
> Hi,
>
> I just wanted to advertise that I'm working on builing python binding
> for QGIS with Qt6/PyQt6 . It's here : https://github.com/troopa81/QGIS/tree/build_qt6_ci_pyqt
>
> This is still draft, there is a lot of hacky stuff and commented code
> but I managed to build bindings for all modules and run
> sucessfully some tests (not all).
>
> I hope I could propose a WIP PR by the end of the week so we could
> discuss about this.
>
> Regards,
> Julien
>
>
> > On Wed, 15 Mar 2023 at 18:45, Julien Cabieces via QGIS-PSC
> > <qgis-psc at lists.osgeo.org> wrote:
> >>
> >>
> >> Hi,
> >>
> >> Thank you for the meeting minutes!
> >>
> >> I'm already planning to continue the effort in
> >> porting/fixing code for Qt6 in the next months using Oslandia own
> >> funding, so I'm candidate to join the working group.
> >>
> >> > ND: major missing bit: python support. Bulk of the tests are thus not running
> >> > Packaging issues - Sandro Mani looking into python stuff for fedora
> >> > (QVariant issues)
> >>
> >> Is there a reason why we are switching from ubuntu for Qt5 builds to
> >> fedora for Qt6 builds ? Because there is already PyQt6 packages in ubuntu:22.10.
> >
> > Initially Fedora was the *only* platform offering qt6 binaries, so all
> > the CI setup was done using that. But now that Ubuntu/etc have caught
> > up I still think it's a good idea to leave the CI with Fedora so that
> > we get a better spread of testing environments. (Fedora generally has
> > much more recent gdal/geos/proj/etc so by running CI on this
> > environment we're more likely to catch issues/test differences across
> > a wider range of library versions)
> >
> > Nyall
> >
> >
> >>
> >> Regards,
> >> Julien
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> > Hi,
> >> >
> >> > Here is some feedback about the QGIS QT6 status meeting we had yesterday.
> >> >
> >> > First I'd like to thank all the attendees, it was great to see the
> >> > excitement and the interest in moving forward with this project.
> >> >
> >> > If I may summarize the outcome, we decided that the best way to move
> >> > forward is to create a working group with all the interested
> >> > developers and allocate a budget (20K is the proposed budget) in order
> >> > to find a solution to the main blockers, it is very hard to estimate
> >> > the effort in advance but we thought that with that budget we will be
> >> > able to move forward.
> >> >
> >> > Any QGIS core developer with experience in the main areas involved and
> >> > willing to dedicate some time to this effort is eligible and warmly
> >> > invited to participate in the working group.
> >> >
> >> > Here is the link to the minutes:
> >> >
> >> > https://docs.google.com/document/d/1Un4Jyz9PO8t2vmEBkUKa187SytM2gsQn-jB6mSqXcvU/
> >> >
> >> > This proposal will be discussed at the next PSC meeting.
> >>
> >>
> >> --
> >>
> >> Julien Cabieces
> >> Senior Developer at Oslandia
> >> julien.cabieces at oslandia.com
> >> 09.72.52.52.76
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>
> --
>
> Julien Cabieces
> Senior Developer at Oslandia
> julien.cabieces at oslandia.com
> 09.72.52.52.76
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