All,

The Jetty project has recently completed our move to Github for our master
repository <https://github.com/eclipse/jetty.project> and issue tracking
<https://github.com/eclipse/jetty.project/issues>.  Jetty is still an Eclipse
Foundation <https://www.eclipse.org/jetty/> 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
<https://github.com/eclipse/jetty.project/pulls?utf8=%E2%9C%93&q=is%3Apr+>
as a result!

Another note is that Webtide <https://webtide.com/>, the company that
develops jetty and provides commercial support, shifted to being 100% owned
by the core Jetty committers
<https://github.com/eclipse/jetty.project/graphs/contributors>, 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
<https://github.com/eclipse/jetty.project/issues?q=is%3Aopen+is%3Aissue+label%3A%22Help+Wanted%22>"
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
<https://github.com/eclipse/jetty.project/issues?q=is%3Aopen+is%3Aissue+label%3A%22Help+Wanted%22>"
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
<https://github.com/eclipse/jetty.project/issues?q=is%3Aopen+is%3Aissue+label%3A%22Help+Wanted%22>"
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.

Keep those PRs coming!

-- 
Greg Wilkins <[email protected]> CTO http://webtide.com
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