Guillaume Laforge
2015-03-04 15:39:12 UTC
Hi all,
The Groovy team is happy to announce its intention to join the Apache
Software Foundation (ASF).
Following up the recent announcement from Pivotal to end funding of full
time developers for the Groovy programming language project, the team
thought it would be appropriate to demonstrate to the Groovy community that
the project is here for the long term, regardless of any funding from
particular sponsoring organizations and regardless of any changes to the
team of committers over time.
We had several discussions both online and offline with representatives of
various foundations, in particular with the Eclipse Foundation, the
Software Conservancy foundation and the ASF.
Weâve been very grateful for the time and advice given by everybody, our
users, committers to projects of those foundations, board members, etc.
Those discussions have been very fruitful and enlightening. Those
foundations are all very interesting and could be a great fit for the
project, even if all have their pros and cons, of course. But overall, the
Apache Software Foundation is the one that appears to be the best candidate
considering our constraints and our philosophy.
We will soon start the process of submitting a proposal for incubation. If
the proposal is accepted, the discussions we had on the mailing list
highlighted some grey areas that we are going to deal with during that
incubation process and we will be very happy to work with our mentors to
make sure Groovy remains a major OSS project in the JVM ecosystem.
The Groovy team is happy to announce its intention to join the Apache
Software Foundation (ASF).
Following up the recent announcement from Pivotal to end funding of full
time developers for the Groovy programming language project, the team
thought it would be appropriate to demonstrate to the Groovy community that
the project is here for the long term, regardless of any funding from
particular sponsoring organizations and regardless of any changes to the
team of committers over time.
We had several discussions both online and offline with representatives of
various foundations, in particular with the Eclipse Foundation, the
Software Conservancy foundation and the ASF.
Weâve been very grateful for the time and advice given by everybody, our
users, committers to projects of those foundations, board members, etc.
Those discussions have been very fruitful and enlightening. Those
foundations are all very interesting and could be a great fit for the
project, even if all have their pros and cons, of course. But overall, the
Apache Software Foundation is the one that appears to be the best candidate
considering our constraints and our philosophy.
We will soon start the process of submitting a proposal for incubation. If
the proposal is accepted, the discussions we had on the mailing list
highlighted some grey areas that we are going to deal with during that
incubation process and we will be very happy to work with our mentors to
make sure Groovy remains a major OSS project in the JVM ecosystem.
--
Guillaume Laforge
Groovy Project Manager
Blog: http://glaforge.appspot.com/
Social: @glaforge <http://twitter.com/glaforge> / Google+
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Guillaume Laforge
Groovy Project Manager
Blog: http://glaforge.appspot.com/
Social: @glaforge <http://twitter.com/glaforge> / Google+
<https://plus.google.com/u/0/114130972232398734985/posts>