Re: [Development] Leaving The Qt Company

2022-05-23 Thread Lars Knoll
Hi Samuel, Thanks! It’s indeed been quite a ride, and I'd like to also thank you for being there and all the work you’ve been doing for the community over the years. Cheers, Lars > On 18 May 2022, at 10:51, Samuel Gaist wrote: > > Hi Lars, > > Thank you for the ride ! > > The road has seen

Re: [Development] Leaving The Qt Company

2022-05-19 Thread Lorn Potter
On 18/5/2022 6:27 PM, Lars Knoll wrote: As some of you might know I got involved rather deeply about a year or two later, when I started the KHTML project to create a new HTML engine for KDE in 1998/1999. That project was later forked by Apple to form the basis for their WebKit project, the

Re: [Development] Leaving The Qt Company

2022-05-18 Thread Alexander Neundorf
Hi Lars, On Mittwoch, 18. Mai 2022 10:27:03 CEST Lars Knoll wrote: > Hi all, > Let’s take the big news first. I’ve resigned from my position at The Qt > Company. More on that and what it means for the Qt Project further below. > But as I’ve spent almost exactly 25 years in the Qt ecosystem, 22

Re: [Development] Leaving The Qt Company

2022-05-18 Thread Tomasz Siekierda
Many thanks for all your fantastic work on and around Qt! And good luck with your new startup :-) On Wed, 18 May 2022 at 10:30, Lars Knoll wrote: > Hi all, > > Let’s take the big news first. I’ve resigned from my position at The Qt > Company. More on that and what it means for the Qt Project

Re: [Development] Leaving The Qt Company

2022-05-18 Thread Shawn Rutledge
I was really surprised to hear that you are leaving, but it’s good that you will still be around. It must have been an amazing experience to start a new web browser in those days. I still think QTextDocument and its related classes and views have relevance, even though today’s browsers left

Re: [Development] Leaving The Qt Company

2022-05-18 Thread Chris Adams
Hi Lars, Best of luck on your new endeavour! It was a pleasure working with you throughout the years. I think you have done a fantastic job ensuring that Qt has moved in a good direction in your capacity as Chief Maintainer. It is no easy task to balance commercial objectives as well as

Re: [Development] Leaving The Qt Company

2022-05-18 Thread Samuel Gaist via Development
Hi Lars, Thank you for the ride ! The road has seen some bumps but your teams and you have managed to keep Qt moving forward in interesting ways through all these years. It has been a pleasure to work with you on some of my contributions. All the best for your new journey ! Samuel > On 18

[Development] Leaving The Qt Company

2022-05-18 Thread Lars Knoll
Hi all, Let’s take the big news first. I’ve resigned from my position at The Qt Company. More on that and what it means for the Qt Project further below. But as I’ve spent almost exactly 25 years in the Qt ecosystem, 22 of those working for the various companies owning Qt, I hope it’s ok if