Codehaus, which has become a cult place for many Java developers, for a long time served as an Open-Source hosting project with an active and devoted community of support. Inspired by his heritage and trying to continue the case, the recently created non -profit organization Commonhaus Foundation takes on an ambitious mission – to offer an innovative approach to managing open libraries and frameworks.
comonhaus foundation positions itself as an independent and neutral space that provides open projects with a safe harbor for development and prosperity. Based on the principles of transparency, inclusiveness and commitment to the community, the fund seeks to create a favorable environment where developers can focus on innovation without worrying about commercial interests or corporate influence.
The Fund was founded by Erin Schnebel, the leading engineer of Red Hat, Ken Finnigan, the Opentelemetry observation engineer, and Cezar Savedra, the senior manager of technical marketing in Gitlab, who occupied the posts of the chairman, secretary and the treasurer.
The basic principles of Commonhaus include continuity planning, minimal management and financial support of participating projects. The projects joining the fund at the start include ORM Hibernate, the JSON Jackson processing library, the OpenRewrite refractoring tool, the Java Jreleaser launcher and the Mongodb driver for Java Morphia.
Since the launch of the fund, several other projects have expressed interest in joining, including Easymock, Objenesis and SDKman!. Although all these projects are related to Java, Commonhaus is open for projects in any languages and technologies that share his vision of a sustainable and cooperative Open-Source of the future. “I started with Java, because this is the ecosystem that I know best,” said Schnebel. “But our doors are open for projects from all languages and technologies.”
Unlike other funds, such as Apache and Eclipse, Commonhaus supports a wider range of licenses approved by OSI, and allows projects to maintain their brands, infrastructure and management methods. This makes him more suitable for mature projects with established management.
The Salaranta Tattoo, the creator and manager of the Jackson project, noted: “Although Jackson components are widely used in the Java ecosystem, our main team remains compact and the processes are minimal. We are looking for a fund that would correspond to our preferences, and Commonhaus turned out to be just like that place “.
The start of Commonhaus occurs in difficult times for Open-Source. Despite numerous positive points, the model is faced with problems. The recent hack XZ emphasized the shortcomings of the supply chain and the problem of burnout the only developers who are often forced to perform the entire amount of work.