@IanPartridge and @Chris_Bailey let the group know that following a review by IBM of its open source priorities, it has been decided that they will not be continuing to work on Swift in 2020. As a result, they are both standing down from the workgroup.
@IanPartridge will work to hand over responsibilities for the Swift Docker images and suggested a potential new owner from the community.
The workgroup thanked @IanPartridge, @Chris_Bailey and the rest of the IBM team for their valuable work over the years in getting Swift on server off the ground, and providing the community with reliable solutions during those early days.
@tanner0101 to test integrating of api-breakage validation into vapor libraries CI
New versions of swift-pm include integration with the tool
@tanner0101 feels the tool may be “too paranoid”, further investigation required.
@johannesweiss followed up with Apple's Foundation team about the new FoundationNetworking code portability across darwin and linux. Foundation team is considering various solutions.
@johannesweiss to start a forum discussion thread about connection-pooling given the progress on async-http-client connection pool implementation. The goal is educational / state-of-nation, not call for action for a generic connection pooling solution.
@tomerd to continue working on this swift-nio governance model.
I'm not a Kitura fan but I will regret @IanPartridge and @Chris_Bailey because they really contributed to the development of server side Swift.
Thanks for all of your work!
I too would love to know what the future of Kitura looks like. Getting code into Kitura was the easiest open source experience of my life. I found David Jones at IBM particularly helpful in this regard.
Thanks to Ian and Chris for their contributions (IBM for sponsorship and all who was involved to the Kitura ecosystem). Sadly this news proofs that we should never rely on huge companies and be always stick with a community driven projects.
You do realise that Swift is completely owned by Apple?
Very sad news, indeed. I also hope Kitura will continue to be maintained; that said, I'm very grateful for the work IBM has put into server-side Swift so far, which goes way beyond just Kitura itself.
You might find your answer in the Code of Conduct that governs this forum. I think "others" includes the people who make decisions at companies, especially those that work at IBM and who participate actively in this forum.
I'm withdrawing my comments, but it is under objection. I guess I'm not free to express an opinion after all. Your wording seems suggestive that you or this forum has an allegiance to IBM. My original comment was clearly directed towards the decision that IBM made not to any developers that participate here. I think it is crazy to think that it would be interpreted as such. Over reaching and overzealous to say the least.
I'm withdrawing my comments, but it is under objection. I guess I'm not free to express an opinion after all. Your wording seems suggestive that you or this forum has an allegiance to IBM. My original comment was clearly directed towards the decision that IBM leadership made not to any IBM developers that participate here. I think it is crazy to think that it would be interpreted as such. Over reaching and overzealous to say the least.
