Hi Raymond, Guess before retiring we should find a home for all residents (Geronimo by itself is not dead and we have several subprojects which should stay somewhere) so -1 as of today even if I agree with most of what you said and the high level idea behind.
My blind guess is that we should at least await october for such a work since it will be summer holidays then september rush but we should probably plan to tackle that topic at that time - can be a board report point thinking out loud. Hope it makes sense. Romain Manni-Bucau @rmannibucau <https://twitter.com/rmannibucau> | Blog <https://rmannibucau.metawerx.net/> | Old Blog <http://rmannibucau.wordpress.com> | Github <https://github.com/rmannibucau> | LinkedIn <https://www.linkedin.com/in/rmannibucau> | Book <https://www.packtpub.com/application-development/java-ee-8-high-performance> Le lun. 11 juil. 2022 à 18:52, Raymond Augé <[email protected]> a écrit : > The "Geronimo" project is getting long in the tooth and has very few > maintainers. It's been teetering on the edge of what could be considered > active ever since I've been involved (I believe more than 5 years now.) > > The project has seen many parts of its portfolio go unmaintained or > deprecated. We've seen other projects adopt parts (with this project's > blessing [1]). I would also argue this project seems to have lost its > identity and is now some sort of mishmash of libraries and utilities with > barely related aspects which I don't believe is really the model for a good > Open Source Apache project to bank a future on. > > And now, we really should make an effort to settle the issue of > "Native"-themed mascotry which was raised again most recently here [2]. > > PROPOSAL: > I would like to propose we attempt to find any other ASF projects that > would be willing to take over interesting parts of the portfolio. After > that is exhausted, if nothing significant of interest remains the project > could simply be retired. However, if something significant does remain and > someone speaks up about wanting to maintain it, they could initiate a new > ASF project to house the remaining parts and have the new project adopt > those interesting bits. > > Thoughts? > > Ray > > [1] https://lists.apache.org/thread/sdny91l920o2lnl58sj5wy577k39fhsz > [2] https://lists.apache.org/thread/bd8s3knj2541275rbdnx2718h0y8qhrj > >
