[QGIS-Developer] How to handle upstream Qt fixes

[Nyall Dawson]

On Fri, 3 Sept 2021 at 19:16, Andreas Neumann <a.neumann at carto.net> wrote:
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> Hi all,
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> Thank you Nyall for raising these questions - and Greg for joining the discussion.
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> Obviously, the questions are not easy and straight-foward to answer. They also depend on what the other OS projects will do about this situation in general.
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> Perhaps we can also ask the KDAB folks what they think about this situation and if they would recommend to continuously work on extending the life span of qt5x.
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> I can mainly comment on the financial aspects: if, after thorough discussion, we think that staying longer with qt5 is the way the project should follow, we can of course continue to invest a bit upstream to fix issues through KDAB. However, the risk is now higher with potential forks and disconnects from the official qt.

Just to clarify -- I'd make sure we require that all fixes land in qt6
first, to ensure that the work isn't a dead-end.

Nyall