[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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