Hi,

Materials related to contributing to Qt and Qt Project are still there, not 
been removed, see: https://www.qt.io/contribute-to-qt, 
https://wiki.qt.io/Qt_Contribution_Guidelines, 
https://wiki.qt.io/Qt_Project_Open_Governance, and 
https://wiki.qt.io/The_Qt_Governance_Model - just to mention a few pages about 
the Qt Project and contributing to Qt.

At the time of unification qt-project.org was mainly a site for developers 
using Qt, built in a way that it was really laborsome to maintain. Content was 
carried over to more modern systems for everything that was seen relevant - 
including all contribution related items (which already back then were in the 
wiki part of the system). Because the majority of people visiting 
www.qt-project.org were developers of Qt applications, it redirects to the 
current developer page. 

Things can always be improved, and constructive feedback is always welcome. But 
to claim the The Qt Company has removed everything related to the Qt Project is 
not justified in my opinion. Could these be more visible, probably. If you have 
suggestions, these can be done e.g. via: 
https://bugreports.qt.io/projects/QTWEBSITE. 

Yours,

        Tuukka

On 01/11/2018, 11.02, "Development on behalf of Olivier Goffart" 
<development-bounces+tuukka.turunen=qt...@qt-project.org on behalf of 
oliv...@woboq.com> wrote:

    On 01.11.18 08:49, Tuukka Turunen wrote:
    > 
    > Hi Christian,
    > 
    > What comes to the mistake with the mailing list archive, we of course fix 
it. Meanwhile, use the workaround described by Andy: " It is there, but you 
have to go to http://lists.qt-project.org for now, it is being moved to a new 
server so at some point the https address will be back, but until then you need 
to use the http address."
    > 
    > What comes to the Qt Project, it is how Qt is developed - all the work 
done for Qt by The Qt Company is via the Qt Project. The website where this is 
best visible is: https://codereview.qt-project.org, also the mailing lists are 
with qt-project.org domain.
    > 
    > The reasons for not having a separate site for open-source Qt and 
commercial Qt are described quite well in this blog post from, 2014: 
http://blog.qt.io/blog/2014/08/06/defragmenting-qt-and-uniting-our-ecosystem/
    > 
    > The hosting foundation for Qt Project (a non-profit organization 
registered in Norway) is currently inoperable, costs of running the web 
servers, download systems etc of the Qt Project are paid directly by The Qt 
Company.
    
    That blog you link said it would merge the contents of qt-project.org with 
the 
    contents of digia. In practice, it just removed, or hide, all the contents 
from 
    qt-project, and replaced it by The Qt Company marketing.
    
    At the time, qt-project.org contained useful information for and from 
    developers *of* Qt. The contribution model was explained, the blog links 
was 
    linking to planet qt, an aggregation of contributors blog.
    
    https://web.archive.org/web/20140806181527/http://qt-project.org:80/
    
    Today, qt-project.org redirects to https://www.qt.io/developers/ which is 
use a 
    page for developer *using* Qt. It contains only Qt Company links, The "Qt" 
blog 
    is just "The Qt Company" blog. It does not really mention that there are 
    contributors to Qt other than the Qt company.
    
    
    
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