[Development] Proposing changes to Qt Widgets maintainers

[Volker Hilsheimer]

> On 6 Feb 2026, at 16:27, Volker Hilsheimer via Development <development at qt-project.org> wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> 
> In the list of maintainers [1], the Qt Widgets module is today split into several subcomponents. This was appropriate when a significant amount of work was done on that module, but that is today no longer the case.
> 
> [1] https://wiki.qt.io/Maintainers
> 
> After checking with the current maintainers Richard, Jan-Arve, Andreas, and Eskil, we agreed that we should collapse all those subcomponents and only have a single “Qt Widgets” component in this table. Eskil, Andreas, Richard, and Jan-Arve will also step down as maintainers for Qt Widgets; they all have been focusing their attention on other parts of Qt, or on products built with Qt. For Qt Project governance this means that Andreas and Richard are stepping down as a maintainer in the Qt project, at least temporarily.
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> Given who does the heavy lifting these days with fixing bugs, reviewing changes, and generally driving improvements, we also agreed to nominate Christian Ehrlicher and Axel Spoerl as the new co-maintainers of this combined Qt Widgets submodule, joining me to spread the maintenance over three shoulders.
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> 
> Cheers,
> Volker


Thanks for all the warm support to this proposal!

With no objections and 15 workdays passed I have updated our maintainer list at

https://wiki.qt.io/Maintainers

A big Thank You goes to Richard, Andreas, Jan-Arve, and Eskil for many years of developing Widgets! And to Christian and Axel: thanks a lot for your continued work on this module, for actively fixing bugs and reviewing patches, and for stepping up as new co-maintainers!


Cheers,
Volker