Hi Gary, Gary Gregory wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 15, 2013 at 2:15 AM, Phil Steitz <phil.ste...@gmail.com> > wrote: >> On 10/14/13 10:59 PM, Paul Libbrecht wrote: >>> Le 15 oct. 2013 à 07:33, Dave Brosius <dbros...@apache.org> a écrit : >>>> I couldn't disagree more. Dormant/attic means the project has leprosy. >>>> I don't know the answer to this, but wondering, has there ever been a >>>> commit to an attic'ed project? I personally would never think of doing >>>> that. >>> As probably the only person that "supports"' Jelly, a dormant to be for >>> sure, I find the word leprosy outrageous. >>> >>> I am happy to stay on list, I even read posts regularly, but I cannot >>> find time or motivation to fix bugs or do new releases. I respond to any >>> Jelly question I find. >>> >>> Jelly has gone 1.0 and is in use here and there. >>> I would expect users to be interested to make it advance to come to jira >>> and suggest fixes; I am happy to negotiate them and apply them, and >>> maybe, if things get excited, there might be a release one day. >>> >>> However, moving it to a place where you would never commit would sign >>> its death. >> >> The proposal is not to move it anywhere, just designate it as >> dormant so people know no one is currently working on it. > > We could avoid labeling a project with any words by simply listing the > last release date. Each project in turn could have a section in its > overview with a history of releases. This would help users make up > their mind. Based on a release date only, vfs is dormant. Therefore I like Hen's approach, since every committer (or even interested user) has now the possibility to make his interest/commitment explicit. Actually we could repeat the this challenge on a yearly base (again with an empty file). A dormant label can get away in an instance if enough people show interest. It would be even better without a dormant section in svn (with Git it is gone anyway). Currently it takes more effort to awake a component. Just because a component is "dormant" does not mean that its maturity has gone. - Jörg --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@commons.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@commons.apache.org
