[Development] Stepping down as QDoc maintainer

Shawn Rutledge Shawn.Rutledge at qt.io
Thu Dec 12 15:44:24 CET 2019


> On 11 Dec 2019, at 15:52, Martin Smith <Martin.Smith at qt.io> wrote:
> 
> I will now formally step down as QDoc maintainer. After 25 years using Qt (Qt license 0 at METIS), the last 13 of those years maintaining QDoc, first at Trolltech, then Nokia, then Digia, and now at The Qt Comany, I am about to become the first guy to retire from Trolltech, et al, because of old age (70 on Jan 14). 
> 
> Topi Reiniö wants very much to take over the maintainer role, and I think he is the best person to guide QDoc through its next phase of development, which will be significant. 
> 
> I expect to continue contributing, but I have been working on the outline for a science fiction novel for those same 25 years, and now I won't have an excuse for not writing it.
> 
> Thanks for an interesting job as both software engineer and technical writer.

Thanks for all the good work.

I’d like to read your book some day.

+1 for the nomination of Topi.



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