We are grateful to the cd Foundation for providing us fertile ground to grow as a vendor-neutral, "upstream" open source project. As the project and the world has evolved, we feel that the CNCF is the right home for the long term. Not only does Shipwright have a transitive dependency on Kubernetes, but many of the build tools we provide as sample build strategies have joined the CNCF. These include Cloud-Native Buildpacks [2] and ko [3].

We will apply to the CNCF as a "Sandbox" project [4]. Our hope is that TAG-App-Delivery will provide technical oversight for the project [5] and provide future collaboration opportunities with other projects.

Sincerely,

Adam Kaplan 

[1] https://github.com/shipwright-io/community/issues/170#issuecomment-1753022287

[2] https://buildpacks.io/

[3] https://ko.build/

[4] https://github.com/cncf/sandbox

[5] https://tag-app-delivery.cncf.io/
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