The Future of Groovy & Grails Sponsorship

Today, Pivotal announced that they will be ending sponsorship of the Groovy and Grails projects. The result is that from the 31st of March both projects will be required to find new funding.

Guillaume (Groovy project lead) has written in-depth on the announcement and the successes and achievements of the Groovy team over the last 11 years. There is really so much more to come from the team, including the potential to improve dramatically the development experience on Android.

The Groovy team at Pivotal are a small but immensely talented to group, who have enabled the creation of some of the significant innovations in the Java ecosystem of the last 10 years. Frameworks like Ratpack and Grails, build tools like Gradle and testing framework like Spock to name just a few. To get in touch regarding sponsorship of Groovy you can email sponsorship@groovy-lang.org

For Grails, over the last 7 years with Pivotal we have delivered a framework that has made thousands of developers more productive. With innovative technologies such as GORM helping drive forward productivity in the data space, and the plugin system inspiring developers to create over 1100 unique plugins.

Grails continues to be immensely popular with an active community and 800k downloads in 2014. Groovy and Grails together have an extremely strong command, with many user groups and popular annual conferences.

Over the last 6 months we have been hard at work in delivering Grails 3.0, the next major iteration of the framework, which will go GA prior to the 31st of March. After that, Grails too will be looking for a new sponsor. There is so much potential to unlock with Grails 3.0 in terms of building out support for new profiles targeting Netty, Hadoop and Asynchronous programming models.

Regardless, of what happens in terms of sponsorship, both the Groovy and the Grails communities will continue to innovate and move forward as Open Source projects. However, if your organization would like to give back to the community by sponsoring the Grails development team to accelerate the development of the framework please contact the same address: sponsorship@groovy-lang.org