[Development] New maintainers

Knoll Lars Lars.Knoll at digia.com
Thu Nov 1 14:52:54 CET 2012


On Nov 1, 2012, at 1:53 PM, Frederik Gladhorn <gladhorn at kde.org>
 wrote:

> Torsdag 20. september 2012 15.54.32 skrev Thiago Macieira:
>> On quarta-feira, 19 de setembro de 2012 12.08.14, Knoll Lars wrote:
>>> Hi,
>>> 
>>> I'd like to nominate a couple of new maintainers for some parts of Qt
>>> currently lacking a maintainer.
>> 
>> Oops, I missed the "I'd like to nominate" part.
>> 
>>> For the kernel subdirectory in Qt Widgets, I'd like to nominate Samuel
>>> Roedal. He's been working a lot with the QPA infrastructure and
>>> implemented
>>> most of the QWidget/QWindow split.
>>> 
>>> For accessibility (across all modules) I'd like to nominate Frederik
>>> Gladhorn. He's been working a lot with this area over the last years.
>> 
>> I second the nomination for both. Samuel is one of the most dedicated
>> hackers I know, having taken the time to explain OpenGL concepts to me on
>> several occasions. Frederik has taken one of the least loved yet extremely
>> important areas of Qt and run with it for a while. I'd especially like him
>> to be called a Maintainer for the accessibility so that he can hammer the
>> rest of us when we break it.
>> 
>> As usual, I'd like to hear from both that they are willing to accept the
>> rights and responsibilities that come with a maintainership (cf. my other
>> email, replying to Marc).
> 
> In line with Samuel, I'd like to also confirm that I'm willing to take on 
> maintainership for accessibility.
> 
> I have poked at the whole accessibility code for more than a year now and 
> probably by now touched pretty much everything in there at least once, 
> especially getting it up and running on Linux.
> Together with Jan-Arve and Morten I had the change to go over the APIs have 
> been changed for Qt 5. Many things have become simpler with more features at 
> the same time.
> For application developers almost nothing has changed, but internally we did 
> big cleanups and now have a solution that works on Mac/Win/Linux. There is 
> still a lot of polishing to do, but we have a solid base now.

Which then confirms you as well, since Thiago had already seconded the nomination :)

Congratulations!

Cheers,
Lars




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