- Sources: primary, discussion
- Summary: The press release is dated 2026-09-01 and states that von Zweigbergk, who began Jujutsu as a side project in late 2019 and later worked on it full time at Google, will lead engineering on the company's version control platforms and will continue as a core maintainer of jj as an open source project under the Apache 2.0 license. The release states jj has more than 30,000 GitHub stars, that before Jujutsu he worked on Fig, the Mercurial client giving Google engineers a distributed workflow over the Piper monorepo, and that he contributed to Git. He is quoted saying Jujutsu improves the part of version control on the laptop while the remote server is still Git, that Git's server side has a ceiling that arrives quickly at scale, and that the storage layer has to change to match the model, work he states a company can support better than an open source project can.
- Why it matters: The stated thesis puts the next work on the server and storage layer, which is the part of a jj workflow that is still Git.
- Follow-up: Track the ERSC Storage private beta, and whether jj's license or maintainership changes beyond his continuing as a core maintainer.
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