[Development] New Qt Project website

[Cristián Maureira-Fredes]

On 10/26/26 9:50 AM, Paul Wicking wrote:
> Hi Cristián, all,
> 
> Thanks for the invitation to contribute. Could we use the QtCS discussion to
> identify which contributor problems we should tackle first, and how we’ll judge
> whether we’ve improved things?

Sounds good!, I think it will be a valuable topic for the Goal discussion.

> We already identify newcomers once they upload to Gerrit; I suspect we need to
> look harder at what happens before they get that far. Which barriers need
> clearer explanations, and which need changes to tools or processes?
> 
> There are also questions about recognition: what do rankings reward or overlook,
> and what say should people have in how their public activity is aggregated and
> presented?

As an historical argument here, the goal of that page was to improve this:
https://web.archive.org/web/20170421013515/http://www.macieira.org/blog/qt-stats

> I’ve been exploring these questions by vibe coding Qt Town [0], with a
> first-contribution walkthrough [1], reviewer finder [2], and alphabetical
> contributor directory. The proposed goals prompted the experiment; the
> contributor site and Qt Wiki informed the content. Iterating on this made me
> question how much a more polished website can solve. Much of the information
> already exists. Why do people still struggle to find it, follow it, or get the
> tools and process to work?
> 
> I shared this internally, and one suggestion was to turn the guidance into an AI
> skill. That could be another approach worth trying. The question for any of
> these ideas is the same: does it help someone get past a barrier and contribute?
> 
> I’d welcome concrete examples of those barriers, to better understand which
> problems we need to solve. As I’ll only be able to attend QtCS on Thursday, I
> wanted to share this beforehand.
> 
> Cheers,
> Paul
> 
> [0] - https://qt.town/
> [1] - https://qt.town/get-started.html
> [2] - https://qt.town/reviewers.html
> 
> 
>> On 18 Oct 2026, at 20:34, Cristián Maureira-Fredes via Development <development at qt-project.org> wrote:
>>
>> 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
>>
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