[Development] New maintainers

[Thiago Macieira]

On quarta-feira, 19 de setembro de 2012 14.39.06, Marc Mutz wrote:
> Hi Lars,
> 
> On Wednesday September 19 2012, Knoll Lars wrote:
> > For the rest of Qt Widgets Marc Mutz has volunteered. I'm really happy to
> > see him step up to this and support the nomination. But as the area is
> > rather large, I would longer term be happier if we have separate
> > maintainers for QGraphicsView+related classes and the remaining widgets
> > and
> > dialogs.
> 
> Thanks for finding more people to share the load. I agree that QGV deserves
> a separate maintainer.

Thank you for stepping up, Marc. You're now finding yourself in a task that is 
hardly easy, but one the Qt Project will thank you very much for.

Understand that, as the overall QtWidgets maintainer, you're now holding the 
responsibility for the entire module, whether there's a sub-maintainer for 
them or not. In that position, you have now the responsibility for ensuring 
the overall quality. With that responsibility, comes the right to overrule any 
change that you feel would detract from the stability. It's really your call 
to make.

On the flip side of the same coin, it does allow you to bless a change if you 
feel it is stable enough. That includes new features in that module, up to and 
including changing the state from Done back up to Maintained. I'm not saying 
you should, at least not until you've had a chance to understand what the 
overall quality of the unit tests. And, of course, the module's direction must 
be aligned with the overall Qt Project's vision -- a subjective matter.

-- 
Thiago Macieira - thiago.macieira (AT) intel.com
  Software Architect - Intel Open Source Technology Center
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