I am a researcher at Tampere University (Finland) and we are conducting a study investigating if the development velocity is faster with projects using SonarCloud than with projects not using it. Specifically, we are investigating projects from the Apache Software Foundation (ASF).
We are aware that Sonar and ASF started collaboration around 2019-2020. We assume this means that the Apache projects with issues in Apache SonarCloud started using Sonar around that time. However, when looking online, were not able to find proper mentions about the collaboration.
Would anyone be able to share any information about the collaboration between ASF and Sonar? I would appreciate anything related to the topic: official statement, blog post, tweet, mention in one of ASF’s projects internal discussion etc. I am especially interested on a rough estimation for the date when the Sonarcloud for Apache was created or some other date when the Apache projects could have started to use Sonarcloud.
Thanks