Lars Knoll, the creator of the KHTML engine developed for KDE, which formed the basis of the Safari and Chrome browser engines, announced his resignation as CTO of Qt Company and chief maintainer of Qt after 25 years in the ecosystem of this project. According to Lars, after his departure, the project will remain in good hands and will continue to develop in accordance with the same principles. The motive for leaving is the desire to try to do something other than the Qt framework, which he has been doing since his student days.
The new place of work will be a startup created together with one of the founders of Trolltech. Details about the new project are not yet given, it is only mentioned that it is not related to the C ++ language and developer tools. Until the end of June, Lars will continue to work on Qt at the same pace, but then he will switch to a new project and will devote much less time to Qt, but he will not completely leave the community, he will remain available on mailing lists and is ready to advise other developers.
In addition to the position of CTO of Qt Company, Lars also announced his resignation as the leader (chief maintainer, Chief Maintainer) of the Qt project. At the same time, he will continue to maintain the Qt Multimedia module, for the maintenance of which he is ready to devote several hours of his time per week. It is proposed to appoint Volker Hilsheimer as the new leader of Qt, who is engaged in Qt full time, knows all the technical nuances, has connections in the Qt Company, enjoys authority among developers and is a supporter of the development of Qt as an open project. Volker is Director of Research and Development (R&D), Graphics and User Interface at Qt Company.
Source: opennet.ru