Cross-posting here from the development and interest mailing lists:
Hi,
I'm happy to share that we're launching a new community-driven goal-setting process for the Qt Project, and I'd like to invite everyone to participate.
During the planning discussions for this year’s Qt Contributors Summit and KDE Akademy participation we got inspired by the KDE Goals process [1], which we would like to adopt for the Qt Project. Starting today, you can submit a proposal for a Qt Project Goal. Three goals will be selected by the community based on voting, announced at the Contributors Summit in Oslo in October, and kept "in focus" for the following two years.
A goal is a topic you'd like to see the Qt Project focus on as a community - something that cuts across modules, benefits contributors and users broadly, and that you're willing to champion. It could be about features, quality, tooling, contributor experience, platform support, documentation, or anything else that matters to the health and direction of the project.
The overall process is described on the wiki:
https://wiki.qt.io/Category:Goals
where you can also find a link to submit a proposal (Qt Account required).
Each goal needs Champions: the persons who drive the goal forward, recruit contributors, and keep the community updated. Based on KDE’s experience, we suggest that each goal should have two or three Champions. Those don't have to implement everything themselves, but provide the vision and the commitment to see it through.
In the Qt Company, we do set goals, and those don’t get invalidated or replaced by this process. There are hopefully overlaps, and perhaps some surprises as well. In the end, we believe that community-driven goals will be a good way to bring in additional perspectives that make the project richer, and Qt more useful, to more people.
So, start thinking about what you'd like to propose. And if you have questions, a reply to me or this email thread is the right place.
Cheers,
Volker
[1] https://community.kde.org/Goals/Goals_Process
