[Development] New Qt Project website
Cristián Maureira-Fredes
Cristian.Maureira-Fredes at qt.io
Sun Oct 18 20:34:08 CEST 2026
Hello everyone,
tl;dr: replaced the hacky dashboard-based website, for a proper
framework (astrojs) for the qt project website.
After the discussions on the Qt Project goals that will be settled
during Qt CS, I submitted a couple of ideas, and among them there was a
simple one around the Qt Project website (released back in 2021
https://www.qt.io/blog/a-new-face-for-the-qt-project )
You can read all the details on
https://qt-project.atlassian.net/browse/QTCS-41 but in a nutshell: the
old version looked very bad because I was misusing a dashboard framework
to show content like a normal website,
which didn't make much sense.
The motivation back then was to avoid using a real web framework,
due to the work of migrating the dashboard, but I have been spending a
few weekends since a year or so in order to move forward and have a
proper website, without weird hacks nor forcing a solution to do things
they are not designed to.
The QUIPs integration was also very unsafe, since I was loading HTML
that was generated from the quips repo...
but at least now the version is safer and doesn't do strange
workarounds to display simple content.
I would appreciate some help on this topic, since I have been working
alone even from the old version, I believe a proper website is crucial
for us to present the Qt Project to new people and get new contributors.
If this is something you have ideas, and more importantly, time and
desire to work on this, let's chat during the Qt Contributor summit,
or maybe let me know by replying to this email.
If JIRA is your thing, you can file new reports with issues,
or features requests on:
https://qt-project.atlassian.net/browse/QTWEBSITE
(component 'qt-project.org')
Have a great week ahead,
Cheers
--
Dr. Cristián Maureira-Fredes
Principal R&D Manager
The Qt Company GmbH
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