Freecad is looking for new maintainers

[Drew Parsons]

On Sun, 2018-05-27 at 06:55 +0200, Leopold Palomo-Avellaneda wrote:
> 
> > Also, I should mention that FreeCAD 0.17 is Qt5-ready, but is
> > blocked by
> > PySide 2 needing to be packaged. It is also Python 3-ready, but
> > only for
> > Qt4 (until PySide 2 is packaged, that is.) Accordingly, I have been
> > mostly working on PySide 2 packaging, but I've just learned
> > apparently
> > that Raphaël Hertzog may also be working on that so I've reached
> > out to
> > him to try to prevent duplication of work.
> 
> I tried to package PsSide2 and I desisted. It's a nightmare of piece
> of
> software and it will be a problem. I have read #877871 and it's
> promising. So, great!!! I'm very happy that some one with experience
> take care of that!!


Qt upstream is recently giving much love to PySide2, and remarketing it
 officially as Qt for Python.  New release coming soon, following the
release of Qt 5.11.

Being more closely aligned with core Qt5, hopefully that development
will make PySide2 packaging simpler.

Drew