Merge pull request #8 from jamezp/foundation

Add a post about moving to a foundation.

Author: jamezp

_posts/2025-02-19-resteasy-to-foundation.md

@@ -0,0 +1,38 @@
+---
+layout:     post
+title:      "RESTEasy in a Foundation"
+subtitle:   ""
+date:       Feb 19, 2025 11:11:11 PDT
+author:     James R. Perkins
+---
+
+As with other projects, like [WildFly](https://www.wildfly.org/news/2025/02/03/WildFly-in-a-Foundation/), RESTEasy has 
+been looking at moving to a vendor-neutral software foundation. Our hope is that by doing this we can further expand our 
+community, improve our openness and transparency, refresh our governance model, and encourage more participation by 
+contributors not affiliated with Red Hat.
+
+As of recently we've moved some projects out of the default RESTEasy repository into their own repository. This gives us 
+the ability to release these projects at different intervals or as needed. Having RESTEasy in a foundation will allow the 
+community to have more participation in these projects.
+
+## Important Considerations
+
+Moving to a foundation is not a trivial task, so it's critical that the choice we make is a net benefit to our community. 
+To help ensure this, there are a number of key factors we're looking at when evaluating what foundation would be the best fit:
+
+* Flexibility to continue to use the current tooling we have around the project. For example, continue usage of our issue tracker.
+* Maintain as much as possible our current release processes.
+* Retain independence in decision-making, particularly on technical matters and not have foundation imposed rules.
+
+## Support and Alignment with Red Hat Values
+
+Red Hat is dedicated to participating in and supporting vendor-neutral collaboration projects, such as the Linux kernel, 
+Kubernetes, and OpenJDK; doing so is part of the company's DNA. Red Hat business leaders are fully supportive of this move.
+
+## Community Feedback
+
+We'd love to hear your thoughts on this. Let us know what you're thinking on the [mailing list](https://lists.jboss.org/archives/list/resteasy-dev@lists.jboss.org/) or the [discussion topic](https://github.com/orgs/resteasy/discussions/4513).
+
+Best regards,
+
+James R. Perkins