Hi Apache Shiro devs! It has been a while since I've had the chance to speak on the direction of Shiro, and I feel the dev team has done a great job discussing moving forward with 2.0, OAuth support, and other initiatives to ensure Shiro stays healthy and useful for its community.
Most of you have noticed that, with the exception of my board duties, I haven't been active with the project in a while - my professional and personal life have been so busy the last few years and I've focused on some new initiatives - writing a book on Beautiful REST API design, the JJWT project, and other things, and I just haven't had the time for Shiro like I would have liked. As a result, and with the desire to see Shiro remain useful and fresh for thousands of developers for years to come, I believe it is (past) time for me to step down as PMC Chair and nominate someone else to be the Chair that can lead and grow the project well beyond 2020. I still feel I'll be able to contribute towards design goals and answer questions and such, even if I'm not taking on significant work coding, so I'll stay on as a PMC member/committer. It is just more important to me that Shiro is chaired with someone who has good experience with the project and has the desire and passion to see the project continue to succeed. As a result, I'll open a discussion thread per https://www.apache.org/dev/pmc.html#newchair to discuss nominating a new Chair. It has been an incredible journey since 2004 (16 years ago! Wow!) when Jeremy Haile and I created JSecurity, which then eventually became Apache Shiro. I'm grateful to everyone at Apache who helped us along the way, as well those new to the community, for all of the hard work and great results over the years - thank you all! Finally, I'm confident with the great group of devs on this list that Shiro has many more years of benefit to its community. Cheers to the next 16 years! All the best, Les Hazlewood
