Linux Foundation now manages the JavaScript community
In addition to standards, there will be a new Ubuntu Budgie community to enhance the operating system. Developers will also get a chance to use help sites like Ask Ubuntu, Ubuntu Forums or Launchpad.net to easily ask for support on the latest platform.
Moving from just being another Linux distribution to an official Ubuntu flavour was not an easy task for the Budgie team. In fact, this massive task required several software changes, packaging updates, merging updates upstream and testing the results.
The official Ubuntu Budgie release will be available with the 17.04 release. There are also plans to add Budgiedesktop 11.
GitLab surveyed 362 startup and enterprise CTOs, developers and DevOps professionals who used its repository platform between July 6 and July 27, 2016. The Linux Foundation has announced the transition of the original JQuery Foundation into the JS Foundation to support a vast variety of JavaScript projects. This new collaboration will help the JavaScript community under the new mentorship programme. In addition to the Linux Foundation, the JS Foundation has founding members such as IBM, Ripple, Samsung, Sense Tecnic Systems, SitePen and the University of Westminster, among others. The objective of the new group is to ‘drive broad adoption’ as well as support the ongoing development of JavaScript solutions and ‘facilitate collaboration’ within the developer community.
“The JS Foundation aims to support a vast array of technologies that complement projects throughout the entire JavaScript ecosystem,” said Kris Borchers, executive director, JS Foundation, in a statement. “We welcome any projects, organisations or developers looking to help bolster the JavaScript community and inspire the next wave of growth for application development,” he added.
The JS Foundation is not only set to focus on mentoring projects on the client side but also on the server side. Target areas of the JavaScript-centric group will revolve around application libraries, mobile application testing frameworks, JavaScript engines and ecosystem technologies.
The list of the initial projects under the JS Foundation Mentorship includes the Appium testing automation framework, the JerryScript JavaScript engine, the Mocha testing framework, Moment.js date library and the Node-RED programming environment. These initiatives will now operate in a community-driven environment.
The Linux Foundation is set to develop an open and technical governance model that includes a technical advisory committee and a governing board with representatives from member organisations. The group will work with standards bodies like W3C, WHATWG and ECMA TC39. Additionally, the Node.js Foundation will work closely with the group to select various open source projects.