Sustainability for the development of the Saros distributed pair programming plugin

Saros是Eclipse IDE的一个开源插件，自2006年以来一直在柏林自由大学开发。它为分布式结对编程（DPP）提供了最强大的支持，可从任何工具，开源或商业。许多行业从业者已经将其用于实际的开发工作，这为研究有趣的DPP实践提供了机会。我们现在的目标是将Saros开发从大学转移到真正的开源社区，以使其长期可持续发展，并确保Saros提供的研究机会不会消失，也不会为我们大学以外的研究人员提供。此外，我们还希望将Saros用于第二个重要的IDE IntelliJ IDEA，因为如果DPP仅在Eclipse上可用，许多潜在的研究合作伙伴公司将不会使用DPP，从而限制了DPP观察设置的广度。

Saros is an open-source plug-in for the Eclipse IDE that is being developed at Freie Universität Berlin since 2006. It provides the strongest support for distributed pair programming (DPP) available from any tool, open-source or commercial. Many industrial practitioners already use it for actual development work, which provides opportunities for researching the interesting DPP practice.Our goal is now to move Saros development from the university to a true open-source community in order to make it sustainable in the long term and ensure the research opportunities provided by Saros do not disappear, also for researchers outside our university. Furthermore, we want to make Saros available for the second important IDE, IntelliJ IDEA, as well, because many potential research partner companies will not use DPP if it is available on Eclipse only, thus restricting the breadth of DPP observation settings.