Qt Opens Source Code Repositories

sobral writes "Following the announcement of the LGPL license model, since yesterday the Qt source code repositories are open to the public together with their roadmap. The contribution model is online and will enable developers from the community to submit patches through a single click process, avoiding the previous hassle of sending in signed paperwork. The code is hosted at qt.gitorious.org and an instant benefit of this launch is that Qt Software has been working together with Gitorious maintainers for the last four months to improve Gitorious and all these new features are already submitted upstream."

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Qt GTK

[Anonymous Coward]

I hope Gnome switches to Qt one day, its so much nicer than GTK.

TGI Git

[iluvcapra]

I have to say, I'm glad of this trend lately for open source projects to primarily publish their source through Git, and particularly through these very able Git hosting sites like gitorious and github. If you've worked with CVS and SVN open-source projects most of your career, the experience is simply incomparable. With the way Git works, and particularly with the implementations the hosting companies provide, it's very easy to fork a project, make the changes you want, and always have the power to commit to a remote repository that not only keeps track of all your commits but ALSO how all your commits relate back to the original forked project...

Instead of downloading someone's tarball and (maybe) emailing them a diff (or just posting your own duplicate of their source with your little changes), it's like you're making a shadow copy of a projects source, where you have all the control but no information is duplicated or lost.

Re:TGI Git

[ultrabot]

have to say, I'm glad of this trend lately for open source projects to primarily publish their source through Git, and particularly through these very able Git hosting sites like gitorious and github. If you've worked with CVS and SVN open-source projects most of your career, the experience is simply incomparable.

However, if you've worked with mercurial before, the experience is comparable - but not really favorably for Git.

It seems Git is this shiny thing every trend chaser is picking it up right now, but it has the overall feel of not really being ready yet. I'm glad it's having some serious competition right now, so it won't be the "obvious" choice like svn was for the previous generation. It's a mixed blessing - I'd really want us to have one obvious DVCS choice, but on the other hand I don't want it to be git as it is right now. And Git doesn't seem to be getting better fast enough, since the current users are familiar with its quirks and don't really mind that much.