[Development] Widgets maintainers

Jake Petroules Jake.Petroules at qt.io
Fri Jul 7 20:09:37 CEST 2017


A big +1 to Gabriel for styles maintenance. The poor man has been doing a great job keeping his sanity while suffering through all those QMacStyle fixes lately... :)

> On Jul 7, 2017, at 4:03 AM, Frederik Gladhorn <frederik.gladhorn at qt.io> wrote:
> 
> Hello all, hello Marc,
> 
> First of all, thank you very much for taking care of the widgets module and 
> working to get bugs under control.
> 
> We've been talking inside The Qt Company about the widgets module a lot 
> lately, since we do see it as a very important part of Qt, which doesn't 
> receive as much marketing and highlighting as it deserves. For traditional 
> UIs, widgets are certainly a viable and good building block.
> 
> While we don't anticipate huge changes in the module, we will keep on updating 
> the styles where it makes sense and take bugs serious. Since it's also a big 
> chunk of a module, we'd like to propse a team of maintainers, to make it 
> easier on everyone.
> 
> Our proposal is:
> Richard Gustavsen as overall maintainer
> Gabriel de Dietrich for styles
> Jan-Arve Sæther for layouts
> Eskil Abrahamsen-Blomfeldt for all text related things
> Andreas Aardal Hanssen for graphicsview
> 
> Item Views is open and would fall to Richard for now, but if someone is 
> interested in helping out more with it, that's certainly appreciated.
> 
> Cheers,
> Frederik
> 
> 
> On fredag 7. juli 2017 12.20.19 CEST Marc Mutz wrote:
>> Hi all,
>> 
>> KDAB is handing back widgets maintenance, which means that I'm stepping
>> down as widgets maintainer. The focus of KDAB contributions to Qt is
>> clearly elsewhere these days (Qt3D, Core, tooling), and the module
>> deserves more focus than it has seen lately.
>> 
>> To this end, Lars has assembled a team(!) of proposed widgets
>> (sub)maintainers that we as KDAB and I personally fully support as
>> successors.
>> 
>> In Lars' absence, I'll leave it to Frederik to introduce them to you in
>> detail (as if introduction was needed...).
>> 
>> Thanks,
>> Marc
>> 
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