| 1 Nov 2025 |
 niklaskorz | you're the closest thing we had to an libxml2 maintainer all year | 14:17:39 |
 dramforever | sounds like it's about time you add yourself as maintainer | 14:55:15 |
|  Gaétan Lepage changed their profile picture. | 22:53:08 |
| Gaétan Lepage changed their profile picture. | 22:54:09 |
| 2 Nov 2025 |
 K900 | Probably going to catch it anyway | 07:44:42 |
| K900 | But Qt 5 update incoming for -next | 07:44:48 |
 emily | 5? | 07:45:50 |
| K900 | Yes | 07:48:52 |
| K900 | 5 | 07:48:53 |
| emily | did they start maintaining WebEngine again | 07:54:20 |
| K900 | Uhh | 08:03:32 |
| K900 | /me looks around | 08:03:37 |
| K900 | Nope | 08:03:54 |
|  connor (burnt/out) (UTC-8) changed their display name from connor (burnt/out) (UTC-7) to connor (burnt/out) (UTC-8). | 08:13:03 |
 aloisw | Probably just related to the 1 year delay of non-webengine stuff? | 09:38:59 |
| K900 | Correct | 09:43:14 |
| emily | what delay is that? | 09:48:22 |
| emily | they're maintaining it for paying customers and releasing the versions a year later or something? | 09:48:33 |
| aloisw | Yeah, pretty much that. They are allowed to delay the open source release by at most 1 year after commercial, and fully exploit that time frame for LTS releases. | 09:49:08 |
| emily | is that because of their agreement with KDE or something? | 09:53:01 |
| emily | (as in "allowed") | 09:53:07 |
| aloisw | I don't remember the details, but basically I think the contract allows KDE to fork Qt under a permissive license if they fail to release any Qt version as open source with at most 1 year delay. | 09:54:50 |
| emily | right | 09:56:21 |
| emily | I just wasn't sure what was binding them there | 09:56:28 |
| emily | https://kde.org/community/whatiskde/kdefreeqtfoundation/ I knew about this but didn't recall the exact details of the contract. | 09:56:47 |
| emily | haha, Qt are contractually prohibited from dropping X11 support | 09:57:12 |
| emily | I guess they're going to have to amend that at some point?? | 09:57:20 |
| aloisw |
The Foundation has the right to update to supported successor platforms (e.g. from X11 to Wayland) without additional negotiations with Qt Group.
| 09:57:37 |
| emily | whoops | 09:57:49 |
| emily | I didn't get enough sleep | 09:57:52 |
