[Interest] Future of Qt [was: Future of Qt3d]

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Hi Tuukka,

thank you for answering here. But isn't there something missing in your 
email?

What I have read about this:

--> KDAB  says, they "have temporarily withdrawn our contributions until 
senior management at The Qt Company makes it clear that they genuinely 
wish to treat the Qt Project as an Open Governance project and that 
external contributions are welcomed and valued."

--> You say that KDAB contributed much work and that you: "[...] hope to 
have KDAB back contributing", but you also state, that they are not 
exactly much-needed: "Everything continues just as before."

What you **don't** say is, that you "genuinely wish to treat the Qt 
Project as an Open Governance project and that external contributions 
are welcomed and valued."

There must be a reason not to write this sentence. There is probably 
much more to this and some serious stuff going on behind the scenes. Not 
all of it might be conveyable publicly, I understand that, but I want to 
second Christians appeal to at least clarify the outline of the apparent 
conflict from your side.

For example:
- In your eyes: is Qt currently still being treated as an Open 
Governance project by the Qt company?
- If yes: will it continue to be treated this way or are there plans to 
change that?
Sorry if my questions seem uninformed - they actually are.

Thanks to all of you guys for working together on this wonderful 
software eco system. Please don't let good collaboration deteriorate by 
lack of communication.

Best Regards,
Sebastian



Am 07.11.2017 um 12:57 schrieb Tuukka Turunen:
> Hi Christian,
>
> KDAB is a valuable contributor to the Qt project. The biggest one, if not counting The Qt Company. According to Qt project statistics, KDAB’s contributions are about 15% or all commits to Qt: http://www.macieira.org/~thiago/qt-stats/current/qt-all.employer.relative.png
>
> We all of course hope to have KDAB back contributing, but there is no need to be worried about the future of Qt. Everything continues just as before. Also Qt 3D continues to be a fully supported module of Qt.
>
> Yours,
>
> 	Tuukka
>
> On 02/11/2017, 23.22, "Interest on behalf of Christian Gagneraud" <interest-bounces+tuukka.turunen=qt.io at qt-project.org on behalf of chgans at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>      On 3/11/2017 5:39 AM, Pierre Chicoine wrote:
>      > Does anyone know the future of Qt3d? After Sean posted his problem with
>      > management of Qt, we've heard nothing.
>      
>      It's not just Qt3d, KDAB is a big contributor and there are many other
>      contributors involved.
>      It would be really nice to have a quick status about this issue.
>      I do think that the lack of transparency is not good for Qt's own
>      reputation (The Qt Project and the Qt Company).
>      
>      Chris
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