[Development] New Chief Maintainer

[Lars Knoll]

Hi all,

As I’ve said in my other email, I am resigning from my position at The Qt Company to join a small startup in Norway that is working with things unrelated to Qt.

As such, I won’t have too much time to spend with Qt in the future anymore, and will resign from my position as the Chief Maintainer because of that.

Qt obviously needs a new Chief Maintainer to take over from me. I’ve had a couple of discussions with various people over the last few weeks, and I believe I’ve found a great candidate for the job.

I’d like to nominate Volker Hilsheimer as the next Chief Maintainer of Qt.

I believe that the Chief Maintainer should be someone who works full time with Qt. He should know the technology, and needs to have the trust of the other Maintainers. He needs to understand Qt as an Open Source project and have the passion to bring the project forward. I also believe that ideally the person should work for and be well connected within The Qt Company. Volker has all of those aspects, and I couldn’t think of a better person to take care of the Open Governance of Qt going forward.

Cheers,
Lars