Have there been any developments in regard to setting up a Bootstrap Steering Committee?
Thanks, Paul On Monday, 18 November 2019 10:12:19 UTC, Aravind SV wrote: > > Hi everyone, > > In 2014, after more than 5 years as a proprietary product, ThoughtWorks > open sourced GoCD <https://www.gocd.org/> and continued to provide paid > commercial support + paid plugins geared towards larger organizations. > During this time, GoCD changed massively including in areas such as config > as code, dynamic elastic agents, external artifacts support and Kubernetes > support, while continuing to improve on its core strengths of powerful > pipeline modeling and visualization. > > Five years later, the time has now come for GoCD to become a fully open > source project. The commercial support offering by ThoughtWorks is being > ended and all existing proprietary plugins created by ThoughtWorks will be > open sourced in 2020. This is an exciting change as the commercial plugins > will be available to use for free beginning in Q2 2020 (estimated). > > With this change, ThoughWorks will also be reducing its investment into > the development effort on GoCD in 2020 and beyond. However in 2020, > ThoughtWorks will continue to build and support the GoCD community, > including providing infrastructure for releases through build.gocd.org, > supporting and monitoring the google groups and gitter channel and > providing open source project governance. > > We believe that GoCD has played a significant role in changing the way > software is delivered and look back with immense pride at what has been > achieved with GoCD so far. In order for GoCD and the community to continue > to thrive beyond 2020, we are planning to set up a bootstrap steering > committee consisting of members from the GoCD community as well as members > from the ThoughtWorks GoCD team to decide the way forward. We still need to > work out membership and details of how the bootstrap committee will run but > expect to get back to you on how that will work in the next few weeks. In > the meantime check out the FAQ below for our initial thoughts. > > As always, happy to answer questions about this change or about GoCD. > Please reply here or contact us on [email protected] <javascript:> > if you have any unanswered questions. > > Thank you, > > Aravind SV (on behalf of the GoCD team) > > > FAQ: > > > - > > Who will do GoCD releases? > > In 2020 the GoCD team will continue to provide releases. Beyond 2020 > this will be the responsibility of the GoCD community. > > > > - > > What happens to GoCD after 2020? What kind of governance will be in > place for GoCD? > > In 2021 ThoughtWorks will no longer formally staff GoCD developers. In > order for the community to continue to thrive beyond 2020 we are looking > for external community members to support the project. > > Based on conversations with members of the open source community, a > strong recommendation has been to set up a bootstrap steering committee to > help decide the way forward. We are planning to set up such a committee > consisting of members from the GoCD community as well as some members from > the GoCD team. The initial thought around such a committee is that it will > be time-boxed and responsible for making decisions about the way forward. > Once those decisions are made, the committee will likely be dissolved. > These ideas can be modified based on the feedback from the community. > > > > - > > What happens to GoCD’s build infrastructure? > > In 2020 ThoughtWorks will continue to provide this infrastructure. > Beyond 2020 this is currently unknown. > > > > - > > Have you considered making GoCD part of a foundation? > > Yes. We have considered it. We felt that the decision should not be > taken only by us, but by including the wider community. This will be a > decision for the bootstrap steering committee. > > > > - > > When will the proprietary plugins be open sourced? > > Estimated to be in Q2 2020. Among other things, there are licensing > considerations that can make this a little challenging. > > > > - > > Should I migrate from GoCD? Will you help? > > You should assess your needs and select the best tool for you. GoCD > will be actively supported in 2020 and available as an open source project > for use in the future. ThoughtWorks will not be providing alternative > tools > recommendations or migration support. Different tools in this space offer > different levels of modeling capabilities and features. > > > > - > > What is happening to ThoughtWorks’ commercial GoCD offering? > > ThoughtWorks will no longer take any new orders for commercial support > or plugins. If you are an existing paying customer we should already have > reached out to you to explain that we will honor your existing agreement > and you will be supported for the remainder of your contract term. > > > > - > > I want to try the proprietary plugins now. Where can I get them? > > If you are a paying customer please contact [email protected] > <javascript:> and we will help you get access to the plugins you have > purchased. > > If you have not purchased GoCD’s commercial offering from ThoughtWorks > you will need to wait until the plugins are open sourced in Q2 2020. We > will update this community when this change is made. > > > > - > > I have purchased support. This is the first I’m hearing about this > change. > > We are so sorry. We believe we reached out to all paying customers via > phone and email earlier to talk directly with you about this change. > Please > contact [email protected] <javascript:> and we will talk you > through how these changes impact you. > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "go-cd" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/go-cd/b8f3e464-f564-4d7f-8bb1-05171bb6c69e%40googlegroups.com.
