> For example, to allow them to use the commercial license in own purposes,
or, something else. ;)

Are there that many people interested in commercial licenses ? I think that
more people are looking to have *fun* and feel welcome contributing,
especially in the OSS world.

Look for instance how contributions are handled in:
* Rust: https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/pull/49173
* Electron: https://github.com/electron/electron/pull/12301
* Dear ImGui: https://github.com/ocornut/imgui/pull/1638
* Python: https://github.com/python/cpython/pull/6142

Overall, it feels much more frictionless to contribute to these kinds of
project - and it does not really matter if this is true in practice it is
or not: most people don't judge with cold, hard scientific facts, for the
better or worse, especially when considering decisions such as "to which
famous open source project should I contribute?".

Another point is that there is no real Qt ecosystem : it's either
contribute to big entities such as Qt itself & KDE or have a small
forgotten library used by a whole 3 people on github / inqlude / qpm, but
there does not seem to be easy "entryway drug" which can easily discourage
newcomers.

Best,
Jean-Michaël





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Jean-Michaël Celerier
http://www.jcelerier.name

On Tue, Mar 20, 2018 at 10:35 AM, Denis Shienkov <[email protected]>
wrote:

> Hi.
>
> Maybe, you can to consider some "yum-yum" for attraction of community
> maintainers?
>
> For example, to allow them to use the commercial license in own purposes,
> or, something else. ;)
>
> 20.03.2018 11:09, Tuukka Turunen пишет:
>
> Hi,
>
> It would be very good to get more contributors and maintainers also from the 
> community and companies who offer Qt services. Lately we have had some 
> community maintainers step down and replaced by people from The Qt Company. 
> This is fine to some degree, but we should also have new persons from the 
> community and ecosystem step up.
>
> Overall the amount of community contributions to Qt is still around the same 
> 30% as it has been. So we have not been getting any better or worse in that 
> regard.
>
> Yours,
>
>       Tuukka
>
> On 19/03/2018, 19.33, "Development on behalf of Sune Vuorela" 
> <[email protected] on behalf of 
> [email protected]> 
> <development-bounces+tuukka.turunen=qt.io@[email protected]>
>  wrote:
>
>     On 2018-03-19, Denis Shienkov <[email protected]> 
> <[email protected]> wrote:
>     > As I can see recently, is is not a good tendence in Qt... Many peoples
>     > leaves from Qt.. What happens? Or I'm mistake? :)
>
>     Let's do some math.
>
>     There is around 160 maintainer positions in Qt (a quick count of <tr> on
>     the maintainers wiki page)
>
>     Many maintainers are a maintainer as part of their job duties. Not many
>     people these days have the same job for more than 5-6 years. If it takes
>     1-2 years to get to a state to become maintainer, that leaves around 4
>     years as a maintainer.
>
>     If we assume that the maintainer is around for 4 years and there is
>     effective 10 months per year, then we should have 4 replacement
>     maintainers each month.
>
>     I'm not sure I see something worrying in numbers alone.
>
>     /Sune
>
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