Update from GoCD bootstrap steering committee

[Ashwanth Kumar]

Hello everyone,

We wanted to give you an update about how development work on GoCD is likely to operate in the future. As you might remember, ThoughtWorks announced they were no longer going to focus on supporting GoCD as a project. A bootstrap steering committee was set up earlier in the year (see announcement).

As the bootstrap steering committee, we wanted to give you an update about progress towards finding a longer-term vendor-neutral home for GoCD. We would also like to reassure you that there is no intention that development on GoCD will end. The intention is that GoCD will be handed over to the community, who have been more and more involved over the past few years. The committee has been working out how best to achieve this transition. This committee’s sole purpose is to advise ThoughtWorks on what the best option is for GoCD’s future. We have been meeting monthly and talking to industry contacts to explore options. We are now close to putting in place the next steps.

We are planning to recommend transferring the ownership and governance of the GoCD project to an open-source foundation, very likely the Linux Foundation. There is a spectrum of open-source project models all the way from fending for itself on GitHub, to sponsorware, to being part of a foundation. We feel that the foundation option provides the most stable long-term home for GoCD. A move to a foundation does not automatically change how GoCD is developed. GoCD’s longevity and vibrance depends solely on the community, which is all of us. Please consider how you can be more closely involved with the technical and non-technical aspects of the GoCD community.

One aspect of this move we carefully considered was about the cost of the build and test infrastructure, which is the most significant ongoing cost of GoCD. We have applied for cloud credits from AWS to support the infrastructure which builds and distributes GoCD. If this is accepted, this mitigates the immediate need for finding funding. However, apart from a move to a foundation, the funding for infrastructure needs to be planned for.

Based on this, we have some asks from you:

1. A requirement to move to a foundation includes statements of support from organisations and individuals in the community. If your organisation uses GoCD, and are willing to provide a statement of support, please reach out to Aravind SV (ara...@thoughtworks.com) who is helping coordinate this.
   
   

2. If your organisation is willing to help fund part of GoCD’s budget going forward, even if it is a small amount, please let Aravind know about your intention. This will be important for us to continue conversations with the foundations, planning for a sustainable future for GoCD.

In the new year we will issue a press release detailing our plans more fully. Happy holidays!

Regards,

GoCD’s bootstrap steering committee

Members:

• Ashwanth Kumar

• Birgitta Boeckeler

• Ketan Padegaonkar

• Mark Crossfield

• Tomasz Setkowski

[Joel Bodenmann]

Hi,

I am fairly new to GoCD (started using it a couple of weeks ago, first privately and now also in our company). Therefore, I do not have a lot of valuable input for this.

Furthermore, due to the current economical situation we're unable to provide direct funding. However, what can be provided is server power: We're currently sitting on a lot of servers standing still. This is not expected to change in the near or mid-term future and long term would most likely require upgrades anyway. As such, our company would be able to provide computing and storage to the project if that is of any help.

Ready-to-go resources up to:
- 64 CPU cores

- 256GB RAM

- 10TB of storage

- 1gbps/1gbps connectivity (location: Switzerland)

Please let me know if this is of any interest and I'll get in touch via business-email.

Disclaimer: This is of course not a binding offering. We're happy to work something out but at this point I can't make any hard promises.

Best regards,

~ Joel Bodenmann

[Ashwanth Kumar]

Thanks Joel, I'll discuss with other members and connect with you offline to discuss further on this. 

Thanks,

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