In the spirit of sourceforge.net, the folks at MuleSource.org have launched MuleForge, a collaborative site where Mule community members and MuleSource partners can contribute extensions and applications that build upon the open source provider's popular ESB, Mule. In the spirit of sourceforge.net, the folks at MuleSource have launched MuleForge, a collaborative site where Mule community members and MuleSource partners can contribute extensions and applications that build upon the open source provider’s popular enterprise service bus, Mule.Obviously this is an important step for MuleSource. As with the world of politics, it’s not what you know, but who develops your code. By launching a pretty hefty online toolkit for its partners and community members that automates and supports programming necessities like source code control, issue tracking, documentation, and in-house developer access, MuleSource will kill two rather tasty birds with one stone: fostering project participation (a no brainer) and offloading/augmenting development work that’s not “core” to the Mule ESB itself. Viva la community! Oh, and don’t be surprised to see closed source vendors adopting this same approach very soon. Open Source