Qt项目的新首席维护人员

New Chief Maintainer for the Qt Project

Qt项目的新首席维护人员

Monday June 20, 2022 by Lars Knoll | Comments

​2022年6月20日星期一Lars Knoll评论

Qt has been released as Open Source since its very first version all the way back in 1994. But development happened in a closed-source fashion inside the companies owning Qt (Trolltech and then Nokia). In 2011, we changed this. We took the big step and turned Qt into a real Open Source project, with a public governance structure consisting of Approvers, Maintainers and one Chief Maintainer.

​自1994年推出第一个版本以来，Qt一直以开源的形式发布。但在拥有Qt（Trolltech和诺基亚）的公司内部，开发是以一种封闭源代码的方式进行的。2011年，我们改变了这一点。我们迈出了一大步，将Qt变成了一个真正的开源项目，拥有一个由批准者、维护者和一个首席维护者组成的公共治理结构。

I had the honour of being the Chief Maintainer for the Qt Project since that time. It's been 11 fantastic years for Qt, where we've seen a huge amount of new features and work flowing into Qt. We've seen a large growth in our user base, and we released 2 major versions, 21 minor versions and countless patch level releases of Qt. 

​从那时起，我有幸成为Qt项目的首席维护人员。对于Qt来说，这已经是11个梦幻般的年头了，我们已经看到了大量的新特性和工作流入了Qt。我们的用户群有了很大的增长，我们发布了2个主要版本、21个次要版本和无数个补丁级别的Qt版本。 

After having spent 22 years in the Qt ecosystem, it was however time for me to move on and try something new. I am leaving the Qt Company, and my new day job will be outside of the Qt ecosystem in a small startup. Because of that, I announced some weeks ago my resignation from the Qt Chief Maintainer position. 

​在Qt生态系统中呆了22年之后，现在是我继续前进并尝试新事物的时候了。我将离开Qt公司，我的新工作将在一家小型初创公司的Qt生态系统之外。因此，几周前我宣布辞去Qt首席维护人员的职位。 

I'd like to take the opportunity to thank you all for trusting me with that role throughout the last years. It's been a great honour to be the Chief Maintainer for the Qt Project. Qt is rather unique in being both a commercial product and one of the largest and most successful Open Source projects out there. 

我想借此机会感谢大家在过去几年里信任我担任这个角色。作为Qt项目的首席维护人员，我感到非常荣幸。Qt是一种非常独特的商业产品，也是最大、最成功的开源项目之一。

As per our governance model, we then started the process of finding a new Chief Maintainer. We had a two week long public nomination period, where contributors could nominate candidates for the position. We did end up with two excellent candidates: Allan Sandfeld Jensen and Volker Hilsheimer. Both have been around in the Qt ecosystem for many years. They have an in-depth knowledge of Qt, understand Open-Source and have many connections into the wider Qt ecosystem.

​根据我们的治理模型，我们开始寻找新的首席维护人员。我们有一个为期两周的公开提名期，投稿人可以提名该职位的候选人。我们最终得到了两位优秀的候选人：艾伦·桑德菲尔德·詹森和沃尔克·希尔希默。这两者都在Qt生态系统中存在多年。他们对Qt有着深入的了解，了解开源，并与更广泛的Qt生态系统有着许多联系。

I'd like to take the opportunity here to thank both candidates for stepping up and their willingness to take over the position as the Chief Maintainer. Having them as candidates also meant that I knew already before the election started that the Qt project will be in very good hands moving forward. You can find more details about the two candidates and the election process in this mailing list thread.

​我想借此机会感谢两位候选人的加入，感谢他们愿意接任首席维护人员的职位。让他们成为候选人也意味着，在选举开始之前，我就知道Qt项目将得到很好的支持。您可以在此邮件列表线程中找到有关这两位候选人和选举过程的更多详细信息。

The election was held online and closed a few days ago. I'm very happy to announce that the Qt Project has elected a new Chief Maintainer. I will be passing this duty on to Volker Hilsheimer, who won the election with 24 to 18 votes.

选举是在网上举行的，几天前就结束了。我很高兴地宣布，Qt项目选出了一位新的首席维护人员。我将把这一职责移交给沃尔克·希尔希默，他以24票对18票赢得了选举。

I'll let Volker to introduce himself with his own words:

我让沃尔克用自己的话来介绍自己：

“I'm honoured to have received the majority of votes, and I'm looking forward to represent and support the community and our fantastic maintainers in the future. 

“我很荣幸获得了大多数选票，我期待着在未来代表和支持社区和我们出色的维护人员。

My history with Qt starts in the late 1990s when I was putting a few dialogs together with some Qt 1.x version as a student assistant in Rostock, Germany. I had done the same thing with MFC for other student projects previously, and immediately got hooked with Qt. One of the early Qt slogans was "Software that makes sense", and that's exactly how it felt! When looking for an internship opportunity I was happy to discover that Trolltech in Oslo was looking for someone doing support. I quickly became responsible for the Trolltech support organisation, maintained the Windows port of Qt, and developed ActiveQt as well as several Qt Solutions.

​我的Qt历史始于20世纪90年代末，当时我在德国罗斯托克担任学生助理，正在参与一些Qt 1.0的对话框。之前，我在MFC上为其他学生项目做了同样的事情，并立即迷上了Qt。Qt早期的口号之一是“有意义的软件”，这正是它的感受！在寻找实习机会时，我很高兴地发现，奥斯陆的Trolltech正在寻找一位提供支持的人。我很快就成为了Trolltech支持组织的负责人，维护了Qt的Windows移植，开发了ActiveQt以及一些Qt解决方案。

I left Qt, which had become a true Open Source project under Nokia, in 2011. While working with configuration management, continuous delivery, and DevOps culture in different roles I didn’t get to use Qt or C++ a lot. Nevertheless, being part of a failing startup, and having responsibility for a team building and operating systems for 200 million users have been useful experiences.

2011年，我离开了Qt，它已经成为诺基亚旗下真正的开源项目。在不同角色中使用配置管理、连续交付和DevOps文化时，我并没有经常使用Qt或C++。尽管如此，作为一家失败的初创公司的一部分，并负责为2亿用户建立团队和操作系统，都是有益的经验。

Since October 2018 I have been back in the Qt community, and with The Qt Company in Oslo. Today I’m leading the Graphics & UI teams in Oslo and Oulu, and have been co-maintainer for Qt Widgets for a while. Recently, I’ve been working on the port of Qt TextToSpeech to Qt 6, and made some quality-of-life improvements for Android developers in our JNI APIs.

自2018年10月以来，我回到了Qt社区，并在奥斯陆的Qt公司工作。今天，我领导奥斯陆和奥鲁的图形和UI团队，并曾是Qt Widgets的共同维护者。最近，我一直在开发Qt TextToSpeech到Qt 6的移植，并在我们的JNI API中为Android开发人员改进了一些开发体验。

I thoroughly enjoy working on and with Qt, and I want that future generations of developers also have fun when they build software with it, and when they contribute to it. The main responsibility as Chief Maintainer is to set the overall vision and direction for the project. Under Lars' solid and steady leadership the project has made a lot of good decisions, responding to both challenges and opportunities. With Qt 6, the project is in great shape, and in an excellent position to make it easier for a growing number of developers to write better software, for any platform. For the coming months I'm looking forward to work with maintainers and contributors, and with users and partners of Qt, to establish and formulate the vision and direction for Qt for the coming years.”

我非常喜欢使用Qt，我希望未来的开发人员在使用Qt构建软件以及为Qt做出贡献时也能玩得开心。作为首席维护人员，其主要职责是为项目设定总体愿景和方向。在Lars坚实而稳定的领导下，该项目做出了许多良好的决策，应对了挑战和机遇。有了Qt 6，该项目状态良好，能够让越来越多的开发人员更容易为任何平台编写更好的软件。在接下来的几个月里，我期待着与Qt的维护人员和贡献者、用户和合作伙伴合作，为Qt未来几年制定愿景和方向。”

With that, what remains for me is to congratulate Volker and welcome him as our new Chief Maintainer. Congratulations, Volker! 

有鉴于此，我要向沃尔克表示祝贺，并欢迎他成为我们的新首席维护人员。恭喜你，沃尔克！