Hydra's Next Chapter
In 2019, while working at Facebook, I started Hydra to make it easier to build and configure complex applications. Today, I am happy to share that Hydra has moved from Meta stewardship to an independent home under the Hydra Ecosystem GitHub organization.
After I left Facebook at the end of 2021, the team maintaining Hydra gradually dispersed and development slowed. Adoption continued, however, and people kept building remarkable things around the project.
In recent months, I have returned to actively maintaining Hydra and OmegaConf. The number of open issues and pull requests has fallen substantially, maintenance is active again, and completing Hydra 1.4 is the next major priority.
The move gives Hydra an independent home for future decisions about releases, governance, infrastructure, security, and community processes. OmegaConf will also move from my GitHub account into the Hydra Ecosystem organization, giving both projects a shared long-term home.
I am grateful to everyone at Meta who helped make this unusual transfer possible, and to Hydra's maintainers, contributors, and users for sustaining the project over the years.