Open source community
As a community, we take pride in our history, as relatively short as it may be. Our open source project may indeed be relatively young if compared to other Apache projects, but we believe that the successes we have achieved in such a short time stand as a testament to our commitment and dedication to open source.
You can trace our roots to 2015 when the JDBC project was first started. Since then, we introduced the project to the Apache Software Foundation's incubator in 2018 and quickly graduated as an Apache Top-Level Project in 2020.
The following list provides you with an overview of some important dates for our community:
- October 2015: Sharding-JDBC project initiation.
- January 18, 2016: Sharding-JDBC officially open sourced.
- May 10, 2015: Renamed as ShardingSphere.
- November 10, 2018: ShardingSphere project enters the Apache incubator.
- December 21, 2018: The first Apache ShardingSphere (incubating) process and project management...