Great news Les! And welcome Brian! Luis
On Tue, Jun 28, 2016 at 2:03 AM, Les Hazlewood <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi Apache Shiro Community! > > I know it has been a while since we last had a public community > announcement, and things have been very quiet due to Shiro's mostly-stable > status (with some minor exceptions the last few months). That said, you > may have noticed a whole bunch of Shiro activity recently - Shiro JIRA > emails, confluence activity, etc., and this is due to some new very > exciting news. > > I'm proud to announce that Brian Demers, a long-time existing Shiro team > member and committer, has decided to join us here at Stormpath in a full > time position. With this role, Stormpath will be investing in the Shiro > project and its community with a full time resource! > > Until now, Shiro has been fostered and supported with much love by the > Apache Shiro dev team over the years, but only as part-time engineers. We > have always had full-time day jobs and couldn't dedicate 100% of our time > to it. But at least now in Brian's case, he gets to spend all of his work > time on it too (and I'm jealous! :) ). > > What is Brian going to be doing? > ------------------------------------------- > > One of Brian's first projects as a Stormpath employee will be to help > clean up the existing Shiro JIRA backlog, specifically issues with patches > that have been sitting for a while, and get a 1.3 release out. If there > is a particular issue or patch you have been working around for a while > please let the dev team know. > > Beyond that, Brian will be working towards the Shiro 2.0 release, as well > as supporting the community with educational content and upgrading the > Shiro website. > > What does this mean for the Apache Shiro project? > -------------------------------------------------------------------- > > For all intents and purposes, it means more help, better support and > getting Apache 2.0 out the door faster. Like all Apache projects, Shiro > will *always* be run "The Apache Way" - it is a meritocracy and each Apache > Shiro committee member will continue to manage Apache Shiro the same way we > have since project inception. Stormpath just sees Shiro as a complementary > technology that helps Stormpath customers, so it was a natural fit for us > to hire someone to help with Shiro full-time. It is no different than, > say, the many IBM employees that are full-time employees dedicated to other > Apache projects (e.g. like Tomcat). > > Additionally, Stormpath has no plans to make a 'commercial' version of > Shiro - so don't worry about that. All Shiro work will be 100% open and > contributed back to the community under the Apache 2.0 license (again, as > we've always done). > > So, in summary, there is *no* change to Shiro, its team, its management, > or its community other than getting dedicated, full-time help! :) > > Please join me in welcoming Brian to Stormpath and thank him for stepping > up to the challenge! > > Thanks, > > > -- > Les > -- Luis Arias +33 6 14 20 87 93 instagram: @kaaloo "Think like a fundamentalist but code like a hacker" - @headinthebox
