Announcing the Ecosystem Steering Group

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Fellow Swift enthusiasts,

As Swift continues to grow into new domains, developers rely on dependable libraries, powerful tools, and clear guidance. To support this, I am excited to introduce a new steering group within the Swift project: the Swift Ecosystem Steering Group—dedicated to strengthening the developer experience, tooling, and package ecosystem for Swift.

This group will guide the evolution of widely used packages—such as swift-foundation—and help foster a more cohesive, productive development experience.

The group’s charter, outlining its scope and responsibilities, is now available on Swift.org

Inaugural Members

The inaugural members bring deep experience across libraries, tools, IDEs, and infrastructure. One of their first priorities is to connect with community maintainers of essential packages and tools. This outreach may lead to new workgroups, broader collaboration, and refinement of the steering group‘s membership.

  • David Cummings (@daveyc123) is a manager at Apple whose team contributes to several areas of the Swift ecosystem including Swift Package Manager, Swift Build and vscode-swift. David is passionate about developer tools and in the past has contributed to several open source projects including Eclipse and Bazel.
  • Franz Busch (@FranzBusch) is an engineer at Apple dedicated to making Swift a top choice for server-side development. A member of the Swift Server Workgroup for the past two years, he has contributed to foundational libraries like swift-nio, swift-async-algorithms, and swift-service-lifecycle, and has contributed to the Swift Package Manager.
  • Mikaela Caron (@mikaelacaron) is an independent iOS engineer who shares knowledge through social media, public app development, and speaking engagements. She co-hosts Swift over Coffee and organizes iOSDevHappyHour.
  • Mishal Shah (@mishal_shah) serves as the Swift Core Team representative to the group. He coordinates Swift toolchain releases and leads infrastructure efforts for Swift, Clang, and LLDB at Apple. He is also a member of several Swift workgroups.
  • Tim Condon (@0xTim) is a member of the Vapor Core Team and founder of Broken Hands. A long-time advocate for Swift on the server, he has served on the Swift Server Workgroup for four years. He speaks at conferences, consults, and maintains packages including webauthn-swift, OAuth libraries, and other security tools.
  • Tina Liu (@itingliu) is a member of Apple’s Foundation team and chairs the Swift Foundation Workgroup.

We are excited to see the impact this group will have and look forward to working with the Swift community to grow a vibrant and accessible ecosystem!

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Will this also encompass libraries like swift-system or swift-numerics? It's not clear to me what the criteria is for what libraries are considered under this new steering group?

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Those projects today are not part of the Swift project but are separate projects with their own identity, so this steering group currently does not oversee them.

However, the core team is refining the scope and principles of the swiftlang GitHub organization and the Swift project to establish a clear understanding of which packages and projects could naturally fit within the umbrella of the Swift project itself, and provide a path for proposing whether or not specific existing projects can be incorporated into the Swift project.

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Can we expect to see some improvements to SPM Registry support? On the tooling side, at least?

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Is TSPL, the book, dead?

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Congrats to all of those who are involved! I’m looking forward to this group’s efforts!

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