We (East River Source Control) don't run Jujutsu, it does not "belong" to us -- it is a community project! Nothing has or is changed. Most of the contributors have nothing to do with us/Google/whoever. We get tons of great contributions from highly experienced and talented individuals. It's healthy, check it out: https://github.com/jj-vcs/jj/commits/main/

Most of the maintainer stuff is also overhyped in a way (OSS maintainer-heads know this). The maintainer group is largely structured to just keep things moving; not really a privilege but a responsibility -- making sure things get merged, doing technical reviews, ensure builds are unstuck, and hitting the green approval button. Our own community members also do code review, find bugs, triage things, answer questions, design features, help get users unstuck, etc. We are very much not alone, and I have great confidence in the constitution and strength of the community itself as someone who has been around the block a few times.

This is going to sound silly and "guy approves of himself" adjacent, but I've been doing OSS maintainer stuff for like 2 decades at this point, and jj is truly a gem as a project. It is vibrant, and the community is generally speaking insanely talented (huge number of git powerusers), and we have a weird dogfood advantage where people use the tool to contribute right back to it. Martin did an awesome job setting the tone of the project just through his behavior before many of us joined years ago. He's a naturally good project lead.

As I said elsewhere: I work for ERSC and I am a Jujutsu maintainer. This is just me speaking candidly on my own behalf.

It's in the post, but Martin will be continuing to work on jj itself as well as on our products, just as he did at Google, working on the open source jj but also their internal source control team.

As a side note, jj has rules around company representation in maintainership, and so when this initially happened a few months back, ERSC actually became over-represented in the maintainers group, as we also employ several other maintainers. The project decided to add more maintainers to keep the balance, rather than ask folks to step down.

We very much want to properly support the upstream project, and we want to make sure that it continues to be awesome for everyone, not just our customers.

The article says this:

> von Zweigbergk will continue to be a core maintainer of JJ as an open source project under the Apache 2.0 license.

Isn't ERSC aiming to be for jj what GitHub was for git? In which case, this would be great news for jj.