Lars Knoll (Lars Knoll), the creator developed for the KDE engine khtml , which formed the basis of the engineer engineer and Chrome and the project manager Qt Project, announced about the departure from the post of QT technical director Company after 25 years of work in the QT ecosystem. According to Lars, after his departure, the project will remain in reliable hands and continue to develop in accordance with the same principles. As a leaving motive, the desire to try to do something else is called, in addition to the QT framework, which he has been engaged since student times.
The new place of work will be a startup created with one of the founder of TrollTech. Details about the new project are not yet given, it is mentioned only that it is not related to C ++ and tools for developers. 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 the QT noticeably less time, but will not completely leave the project, will remain available in the community and ready to consult other developers.
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In addition to the post of technical director of QT Company, Lars also announced the departure from the post of leader (chief accompanying, Chief Maintainer) of the QT project. At the same time, he will remain accompanying the QT Multimedia module, which is ready to allocate several hours a week of his time. To the post of new leader Qt it is proposed to prescribe Volker Hilsheimer folk, which is engaged in Qt full time, knows all technical nuances, has connections in QT Company, enjoys authority among developers and is a supporter of QT development as an open project.