[Development] Nominating David Boddie as approver

[Tor Arne Vestbø]

+1!!

> On 5 Aug 2025, at 07:08, Paul Wicking via Development <development at qt-project.org> wrote:
> 
> Hi everyone,
> 
> I would like to nominate David Boddie for approver rights in the Qt project.
> 
> David has extensive experience with Qt: From 2004 to 2008, he wrote technical
> documentation for Trolltech in Oslo, then tried to do the same for Nokia
> until 2011. If he hadn't left Qt before the invention of the approver role, he
> would already be one. Since he left, he's been writing software, often using
> Qt. He rejoined TQtC November last year, as a Senior Software Engineer with the
> Documentation Infrastructure team. Since coming back, his main focus is
> improving QDoc. I fully trust David's judgment in reviewing and approving
> changes, and see him as a valuable addition to the Qt Project.
> 
> Drawing on his extensive experience working with various documentation systems
> and processes, he's offered valuable insight and help to our technical
> writers. David has a spectacular way of dropping very well thought out one-line
> jokes that I find extremely funny in almost any situation, and I thoroughly
> enjoy discussing ideas for solving bugs or adding features with him because of
> the way he adds perspectives that help me rethink.
> 
> His authored changes are here:
> https://codereview.qt-project.org/q/owner:david.boddie%40qt.io
> As reviewer/commenter:
> https://codereview.qt-project.org/q/commentby:david.boddie%40qt.io
> 
> Disclaimer: David and I share the same line manager at The Qt Company, share an
> office, and we frequently share lunch at the office.
> 
> //! Paul
> 
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