That's great news!
On 06/28/2016 02:03 AM, Les Hazlewood 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
