That's fantastic news congratulations Brian and Shiro team!!
> On Jun 27, 2016, at 7:03 PM, 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
