[Development] Stepping down as maintainer

[Jean-Michaël Celerier]

> For example, to allow them to use the commercial license in own purposes,
or, something else. ;)

Are there that many people interested in commercial licenses ? I think that
more people are looking to have *fun* and feel welcome contributing,
especially in the OSS world.

Look for instance how contributions are handled in:
* Rust: https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/pull/49173
* Electron: https://github.com/electron/electron/pull/12301
* Dear ImGui: https://github.com/ocornut/imgui/pull/1638
* Python: https://github.com/python/cpython/pull/6142

Overall, it feels much more frictionless to contribute to these kinds of
project - and it does not really matter if this is true in practice it is
or not: most people don't judge with cold, hard scientific facts, for the
better or worse, especially when considering decisions such as "to which
famous open source project should I contribute?".

Another point is that there is no real Qt ecosystem : it's either
contribute to big entities such as Qt itself & KDE or have a small
forgotten library used by a whole 3 people on github / inqlude / qpm, but
there does not seem to be easy "entryway drug" which can easily discourage
newcomers.

Best,
Jean-Michaël





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Jean-Michaël Celerier
http://www.jcelerier.name

On Tue, Mar 20, 2018 at 10:35 AM, Denis Shienkov <denis.shienkov at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Hi.
>
> Maybe, you can to consider some "yum-yum" for attraction of community
> maintainers?
>
> For example, to allow them to use the commercial license in own purposes,
> or, something else. ;)
>
> 20.03.2018 11:09, Tuukka Turunen пишет:
>
> Hi,
>
> It would be very good to get more contributors and maintainers also from the community and companies who offer Qt services. Lately we have had some community maintainers step down and replaced by people from The Qt Company. This is fine to some degree, but we should also have new persons from the community and ecosystem step up.
>
> Overall the amount of community contributions to Qt is still around the same 30% as it has been. So we have not been getting any better or worse in that regard.
>
> Yours,
>
> 	Tuukka
>
> On 19/03/2018, 19.33, "Development on behalf of Sune Vuorela" <development-bounces+tuukka.turunen=qt.io at qt-project.org on behalf of nospam at vuorela.dk> <development-bounces+tuukka.turunen=qt.io at qt-project.orgonbehalfofnospam@vuorela.dk> wrote:
>
>     On 2018-03-19, Denis Shienkov <denis.shienkov at gmail.com> <denis.shienkov at gmail.com> wrote:
>     > As I can see recently, is is not a good tendence in Qt... Many peoples
>     > leaves from Qt.. What happens? Or I'm mistake? :)
>
>     Let's do some math.
>
>     There is around 160 maintainer positions in Qt (a quick count of <tr> on
>     the maintainers wiki page)
>
>     Many maintainers are a maintainer as part of their job duties. Not many
>     people these days have the same job for more than 5-6 years. If it takes
>     1-2 years to get to a state to become maintainer, that leaves around 4
>     years as a maintainer.
>
>     If we assume that the maintainer is around for 4 years and there is
>     effective 10 months per year, then we should have 4 replacement
>     maintainers each month.
>
>     I'm not sure I see something worrying in numbers alone.
>
>     /Sune
>
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