diff --git a/_posts/2024-10-03-plan-to-move-debezium-to-foundation.adoc b/_posts/2024-10-03-plan-to-move-debezium-to-foundation.adoc new file mode 100644 index 00000000000..e278b0a8e5b --- /dev/null +++ b/_posts/2024-10-03-plan-to-move-debezium-to-foundation.adoc @@ -0,0 +1,61 @@ +--- +layout: post +title: Moving Debezium to a Foundation +date: 2024-10-03 +tags: [ announcement ] +author: ccranfor +--- + +== tl;dr + +We are considering moving Debezium to a Software Foundation to expand our community, become more open and transparent in our roadmap and decisions, and encourage multi-vendor participation and execution. + +++++++ + +== Introduction + +Since its inception in late 2015, Debezium has strived to be the leading open-source platform for Change Data Capture. +A project that started focusing on two connectors has now grown into a portfolio of connectors for nearly a dozen different database vendors. + +Over the past several years, there has been rapid growth in multiple areas. +We’ve introduced sink connectors to our portfolio to improve the user experience and offer solutions for full end-to-end Change Data Capture pipelines. +We have introduced supplementary components such as the Debezium Operator and Debezium Server, providing alternative deployment options rather than just Kafka Connect as the only runtime. + +But beyond that, the team has grown in other ways, too. +Not only have we had the pleasure of expanding our committer team, but we’ve also enlisted nearly a half-dozen volunteers from the community who help contribute, maintain, and lead our community-led connector portfolio for Google Spanner, Vitess, Informix, and Cassandra. + +The project’s overall success would not have been possible without the passion, dedication, and collaboration of our volunteers, contributors, committers, and the extraordinary and vibrant user community. + +== Why move to a Foundation? + +For Debezium to remain the leading open-source platform for Change Data Capture, we must consider long-term goals to enable the project to adapt to a fast-paced, highly innovative landscape. + +Our goals are simple: + +* Continue to grow our community +* Increase the adoption and awareness of Debezium +* Embrace transparency in our roadmap and decision-making +* Encourage multi-vendor participation and execution + +We believe that moving Debezium to a Foundation will help drive these goals more organically, benefiting everyone involved. + +== Support and Alignment with Red Hat Values + +Red Hat is dedicated to fostering a vendor-neutral culture for collaboration on Debezium, like other projects such as the Linux kernel, Kubernetes, OpenJDK, and Quarkus. + +== Community Feedback + +So far, all preliminary discussions about this change have been positive. +But we want to make sure that we make a decision that provides a net benefit, so we’ve created a set of criteria to evaluate foundations, which includes: + +* Remain visible, relevant, and recognizable in a foundation’s portfolio. +* Maintain our current release processes without extra processes or steps. +* Make independent, self-informed decisions rather than those imposed. +* License flexibility to continue using a wide array of third-party libraries. +* Flexibility to create sub-projects or use the Debezium brand, focusing on new areas of interest or proofs of concepts that could expand the project’s portfolio. + +We invite you, the broader Debezium community, to get involved in the conversation. +You can share your concerns and constructive feedback on our https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/debezium[mailing list] or https://debezium.zulipchat.com/login/#narrow/stream/302529-community-general/topic/Move20Debezium20to20a20Foundation[zulip chat]. +This is crucial for us to decide the best home for Debezium. + +Let’s guarantee that Debezium continues to grow, thrive, and remain the leader in Change Data Capture together! \ No newline at end of file