Gentoo Qt Project

1. Project Description

The Qt project handles the Qt ebuilds available in Gentoo's portage and the qt overlay. It also maintains various Qt packages and libraries that don't have dedicated maintainers.

2. Project Goals

The goal of the Gentoo Qt team is have fully functional, up-to-date ebuilds for the Qt toolkit and various Qt applications. We also maintain eclasses that ease creation and maintainance of ebuilds using Qt.

3. Frequently Asked Questions

For frequently asked questions and their answers, please consult our FAQ.

4. Team meetings

The Qt team has its semi-regular meetings in #gentoo-meetings. For earlier logs and summaries, please see the KDE team page.

Date	Log	Summary
26 January 2013	20130126 Log	20130126 Summary
08 December 2012	20121208 Log	20121208 Summary
16 October 2012	20121016 Log	20121016 Summary
05 September 2012	20120905 Log	20120905 Summary
01 July 2012	20120701 Log	20120701 Summary
03 June 2012	20120603 Log	20120603 Summary
25 March 2012	20120325 Log	20120325 Summary
26 January 2012	20120126 Log	20120126 Summary
07 July 2011	20110707 Log	Summary pending
07 April 2011	20110407 Log	20110407 Summary
18 November 2010	20101118 Log	20101118 Summary
02 September 2010	20100902 Log	20100902 Summary
24 June 2010	20100624 Log	20100624 Summary
27 May 2010	20100527 Log	20100527 Summary
20 May 2010	20100520 Log	20100520 Summary
15 April 2010	20100415 Log	20100415 Summary
18 March 2010	20100318 Log	20100318 Summary
19 February 2010	20100219 Log	20100219 Summary
21 January 2010	20100121 Log	20100121 Summary
17 December 2009	20091217 Log	20091217 Summary

5. Qt overlay

The upstream Qt Project currently provides multiple Qt versions at the same time. Hence we created the qt overlay to make those versions available to our users. We put a great effort in maintaining many flavors of the Qt library. Currently we maintain and test on an almost daily basis the following packages:

Major Version	Flavors	Use Flag	Upstream Repository
4.8.9999	Qt-4.8 branch	None	qt 4.8 master branch
5.9999	Qt-5 branch	None	qt 5 master branch

Important: Due to limited hardware resources we might be unable to test some of the above Qt versions. You may check the list of maintainers here. If you want to help us and test a specific version of Qt please let us know.

You may seek online support on Gentoo Forums. See Section 6 for alternative methods to contact us.

The qt overlay also contains many live ebuilds for Qt-based applications, as well as packages that are being tested for inclusion in portage.

6. Contributing

Bugs, bugs, bugs! If you want to help, consider going through the Qt bug list: http://tiny.cc/qtbugs. Any comment that can help a bug get fixed is always useful!

Those interested in writing ebuilds for Qt4 applications may find this tutorial useful: Qt4-based Ebuild HowTo.

Active contributors usually gain access to the qt overlay to better help us with ebuild maintainance and can, in time, become full-fledged developers :)

To get in contact with the Qt team, drop by #gentoo-qt and chat with us, or send us an email at qt@gentoo.org.

7. Developers

Developer	Nickname	Role
Sergey Popov	pinkbyte	Lead
Markos Chandras	hwoarang	Member ( live ebuilds )
Michael Palimaka	kensington	Member
Davide Pesavento	pesa	Member
Alex Alexander	wired	Member
Ben de Groot	yngwin	Member

All developers can be reached by e-mail using nickname@gentoo.org.

8. Recruitment

We are currently looking for users interested in helping the project with the following jobs:

Developer

Job description: We need Gentoo developers to join our team. We have a wide range of packages, for all kinds of skill levels and interests.
Requirements: Being a Gentoo developer (or wanting to become one) who is interested in working with us on Qt libraries and applications.
Contact: qt@gentoo.org

Proxy maintainer

Job description: We have quite a few packages in our herd, from simple to complicated, that could use a more dedicated pair of eyes to help us with maintenance. If you feel you don't have enough time to become a developer, you can help us out by adopting a package and becoming its maintainer by proxy.
Requirements: Having (or wanting to acquire) basic knowledge of writing and maintaining ebuilds, including usage of our portage tool repoman, as well as git for our overlay. A little time to keep up to date with upstream releases and bug fixes.
Contact: qt@gentoo.org

Documentation editor

Job description: We would like more detailed and up-to-date documentation (Qt FAQ, application user guides, etc.) on the Gentoo wiki.
Requirements: Language skills to write clear documentation. Knowing how to edit the wiki.
Contact: qt@gentoo.org

9. Herds

The Qt project maintains the following herds:

Herd	Members	Description
qt	hwoarang, kensington, pesa, pinkbyte, wired, yngwin	Qt and related packages

Page updated April 27, 2013

Summary: The Qt project manages the Qt ebuilds within Gentoo.

Alex Alexander
Author

Markos Chandras
Editor

Ben de Groot
Editor

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