On Thursday 24 January 2013 13:57:46 Jordi Pujol wrote: > Hi all, > > First of all, I'm not a native english speaker/writer so, my apologies > if it seems I'm ranting ( I can state I'm not ). It's only something > stumblin in my mind that I want to share with you. > > Today I've read an email in this list that links to this page : > > http://sprogram.com.ua/en/articles/qt-connect-to-oracle-as-sysdba > > This code seems to me a good candidate to add to Qt's Dabatase module. A > simple and effective way to achieve its goal. > > Some time ago I did a similar request ( to merge some lines of code to > enable SQLite extension load ) and only Thiago kindly answered me with > another question. No other answer. :-( > > I'm having a huge workload and didn't have the time to contrib it to Qt > 5.1 ( I have another little contribution for widgets, even being OK, > that could not be accepted in time for Qt 5.0, and I don't know if I > have to resubmit it or it will be cherry-picked in a near future, but > that's another war... ). > > I accept that my contribution are quite small, but a lot of little > contributions make a bigger one ! And the initial gap to contribute > makes many of us think twice before spending the time to push our > changes to Qt project. > > I suspect that I'm not the only one in this situation : people that uses > Qt and have good knowledge of it and with good ideas/modifications that > can benefit all the project. And we want to contribute it ! > > My question to the community is : it's worth the effort to contribute, > if you're a "little one" like me ? I have serious doubts... > > I have to spend a lot of time to remember how the submit process goes. > Yes, if you contribute once or twice in a year you forgot the > not-so-simple commands for gerrit ;-) > > It's possible to, simplify that process ? I have no problem to sign a > disclaimer like "I wrote that code, but I give all the rights to i.e. > digia/Kdab/<write_here_your_company>" and then send my patches to > someone in that company that evaluates them and pushes it to gerrit in > behalf of me. > > I have No need for glory, I only want Qt become better and contribute > with my 2 cents. It's possible to simply cede my code to someone that > takes care of submit ?
Please start a new thread when you start a new topic ... But yes, +1 Frank _______________________________________________ Interest mailing list [email protected] http://lists.qt-project.org/mailman/listinfo/interest
