+1 for retiring the main project and finding hosts for sub projects.
regards,
François
On 11/07/2022 18:52, Raymond Augé wrote:
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
