All,
The Jetty project has recently completed our move to Github for our
master repository and
issue tracking. Jetty is still an
Eclipse Foundation project and our IP is audited by the eclipse processes, but the excellent collaboration tools available from GitHub are now fully available to assist with the development of the Jetty project. We have already seen an increase in
community contributions as a result!
Another note is that
Webtide, the company that develops jetty and provides commercial support, shifted to being 100% owned by the
core Jetty committers, allowing us to retain our ongoing commitment of maintaining the Jetty project as a 100% open offering.
I mention these two changes as I call your attention to the new "
Help Wanted" label in the Github Issues area for Jetty. Now why is a commercially supported open source project asking for help from the community?
Not only are our commercial support clients the projects ultimate source of funding, they are our primary source of use-cases, examples and challenges that drive Jetty development and set our priorities. However not every enhancement is going to be sponsored by a commercial client and neither is every user going to take up a commercial support contract.
Short of taking up a commercial support contract, contributing to "
Help Wanted" issues is an ideal way to give back to the community and to help steer the future of the project. Note also that help comes can come in many forms which includes testing, requirements, examples and documentation, so that showing interest and willing in a "
Help Wanted" issue may assist us in making it a priority for our own engineers to complete without commercial support.
Finally, contributions to any open source project appear as great resume fodder and we ourselves are always on the lookout for talent, both from a project perspective and Webtide itself.
