<story><title>FindBugs project in its current form  is dead</title><url>https://mailman.cs.umd.edu/pipermail/findbugs-discuss/2016-November/004321.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>billpugh</author><text>FindBugs isn’t dead (although my participation had been in hibernation for a while).&lt;p&gt;I’ve been juggling far too many projects, but I’m now working to move FindBugs back into the active rotation.&lt;p&gt;I also want announce I&amp;#x27;ll be working with GrammaTech as part of the Swamp Project, and they will be helping with rebooting the FindBugs project. This has been in the works for a long time (almost a year), and although I’ve known that GrammaTech was likely to win an award, this hasn’t been official and something I could talk about until recently. Was hoping to have something a little more concrete to talk about as far as that goes; but I don’t yet have the information I wanted to share.&lt;p&gt;Thanks to all the FindBugs fans and supporters who lobbied for me to return to active maintenance of FindBugs. Give me a week to get up to speed on current project needs.&lt;p&gt;Bill Pugh</text></comment>
<story><title>FindBugs project in its current form  is dead</title><url>https://mailman.cs.umd.edu/pipermail/findbugs-discuss/2016-November/004321.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>mkobit</author><text>Further on in the email chain, it looks like there is momentum for hard forking under another project named &amp;#x27;SpotBugs&amp;#x27; [1, 2]. I hope to see the project live on as it has been useful. Other tools like Google&amp;#x27;s Error Prone and IntelliJ&amp;#x27;s inspection toolset are awesome, and FindBugs is complimentary to them.&lt;p&gt;[1] &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;mailman.cs.umd.edu&amp;#x2F;pipermail&amp;#x2F;findbugs-discuss&amp;#x2F;2016-November&amp;#x2F;004330.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;mailman.cs.umd.edu&amp;#x2F;pipermail&amp;#x2F;findbugs-discuss&amp;#x2F;2016-N...&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;[2] &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;github.com&amp;#x2F;spotbugs&amp;#x2F;spotbugs&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;github.com&amp;#x2F;spotbugs&amp;#x2F;spotbugs&lt;/a&gt;</text></comment>