I’m happy to announce that the Qt Project officially went live today.Starting today, development of Qt will be governed as a true opensource project.
We now have
qt-project.org– a website where all development of Qt will be centered, providing thesame infrastructure and processes for everybody that wants tocontribute to Qt.
Now that we are here, what next?If you are interested in participating and becoming part of the QtProject community, the first place to look is at the projects website at
qt-project.org. This page gives a good overview on how to get started, and how you can become part of the community and contribute to Qt.
If you have already been working with Qt, you most likely have an account in
Jira, our bugtracking tool. This account is required to get access to the central place where all development happens:
codereview.qt-project.org.
Our Gerrit server at
codereview.qt-project.orgwill function as the central place where patches get pushed to, andthere the patches are then reviewed and tested. Everybody that has aJira account can push patches to codereview as a Contributor.
Patches can be reviewed by anyone, and finally accepted or rejected by Approvers and
Maintainers.You will also notice that we already have some non Nokians as Approversand Maintainers. I’d like to especially mention that Thiago, themaintainer for QtCore (the one library everybody is using), is notworking for
Nokia. This is the most tangible evidence of what opengovernance means. I expect and hope to see even more non Nokiansbecoming Approvers and Maintainers in the future.
For details on how to contribute, please head over to
www.qt-project.org.
For now we have only a few mailing lists available at
lists.qt-project.org,but I expect this to change and to see more specialized lists as wemove forward. The most important list is the general development mailinglist
development@qt-project.org. Note that the development mailing list is also a member of the
announcement mailing list, so you will automatically get those as well.
We are continuing to use Jira for tracking bugs and requirements. The current installation at
bugreports.qt.nokia.com will be moved over the next few weeks to the Qt Project as well.
True opennessThe Qt project is a true open source project. We are inviting everybody to participate and help making Qt a better product.
All development will happen in one central location, with access foreveryone at the same time. No more separate code flow for “Nokians vsothers”, and no more time delays! What you see is what we see.Discussions, decisions and roadmapping will all happen in the community,by the community, for the community. Anyone can be a Contributor, andeven an Approver or Maintainer if they show enough merit.
Talk with us about Open Governance at Qt Developer DaysSessions regarding the Qt Project and open governance will behappening at Qt Developer Days, and I’ll also be talking about it duringmy keynote. If you are coming to the event, you will have anopportunity to learn more and get involved in the discussion. If you areconsidering coming to Dev Days, this discussion is one of many goodreasons to get yourself there!
Conclusions and thanksI am extremely happy to see that this move has now finally happened.I’d like to take the opportunity to thank all the people that havehelped making this happen. There are many people that have contributed,but a few should be specifically mentioned : Thiago Macieira for drivingthe initial work on open governance, Marius Storm-Olsen for taking overmuch of that work, Cristy Hamley for handling all of the legal issues,and Olivia Puntanen for managing the project. Thank you all.
I am very much looking forward to starting a new chapter in thedevelopment of Qt, and excited to work with all of you towards making Qtan even better product.
原文见：
http://labs.qt.nokia.com/2011/10/21/the-qt-project-is-live/
