Observe: Earlier than beginning this week’s intro, I need to emphasise that I’m not an neutral observer of at present’s information. I’d have coated this announcement it doesn’t matter what the open-source challenge was, however I’m straight concerned in the whole lot introduced at present, and my bias is unavoidable. All the things I write right here is all the time my opinion, however I hope you’ll agree that that is vastly necessary information, no matter my involvement!
You could have already seen the most recent put up on the official Swift weblog, the place Apple introduced their assist for the Swift Package deal Index. They introduced each public and monetary assist for the challenge and requested us to jot down up the historical past and a behind-the-scenes have a look at what we’ve constructed during the last three years.
Crucial a part of this announcement is the general public assist of a non-Apple open-source challenge. This can be a huge deal, and the Swift staff deserve a lot credit score for making it occur. Thanks to everybody from Apple who supported this, particularly Ted Kremenek and Tom Doron, who’ve been a pleasure to work with at each stage. Sure, that is vastly necessary for our challenge, but it surely additionally feels important for Apple. The group has been asking for extra exterior assist, and if this isn’t what we’ve been asking for, I don’t know what’s.
The extra monetary assist that this brings can also be crucial to the challenge. Our sponsorship earlier than at present was (and nonetheless is!) vastly appreciated. Nonetheless, the time this challenge calls for of us means we confronted some troublesome choices about its future. Including Apple’s monetary assist on prime of our current group, company, and infrastructure assist ensures the provision and stability of this challenge. We’re right here to remain. It doesn’t imply our funding is full, however we are able to relaxation a lot simpler at evening.
I’d additionally prefer to thank everybody locally who supported our web site in any option to get us so far. Whether or not via our current sponsorship programme, creating and submitting open-source packages, or visiting the location to assist discover your app’s dependencies. We’d not be right here with out you. Thanks all.
We additionally wrote up this information on the Swift bundle Index weblog and up to date the supporters web page with that iconic emblem.
Dave Verwer 