On Sun, 13 Apr 2025 at 16:29, sharanf <sha...@apache.org> wrote: > > Hi Sebb > > See some responses inline. > > On 4/13/25 15:56, sebb wrote: > > On Sun, 13 Apr 2025 at 14:23, Sharan <sha...@apache.org> wrote: > >> Hi All > >> > >> We've been struggling to get any real progress or work started on the > >> project so am making a final appeal to anyone is willing to come onboard > >> as a potential committer or PMC member to help develop the project. It's > >> been a while since we had any community activity. I've tried to keep > >> things moving by responding to queries and questions but I'm not a > >> developer so cannot answer any technical or code related questions. This > >> means that we don't have any way to help or mentor any potential new > >> code contributors. > >> > >> From my side - I am taking a break from ASF activities for while due to > >> personal reasons and so won't be able to continue oversight of Kibble > >> as needed by the board so it be good to find others willing to take > >> over, review where are, plan and then help move the project forward. > >> > >> If we can't sustainably keep Kibble going then we need to seriously > >> think about starting a vote to take the project to the attic. It's an > >> unfortunate situation but it's where we are. > >> > >> Please respond if you are willing to help keep Kibble alive. > > I have looked at it a couple of times, but cannot fathom where > > development is supposed to be happening. > > The most recent changes have been to Kibble-1, but that repo says that > > it is obsolete. > > Thanks for looking! > > What happened was that we cleared down the repo and moved everything to > Kibble-1 in preparation for starting the rewrite for the Kibble repo but > then nothing was really started. All the communication we put out there > said the Kibble-1 repo was no longer being developed and then things > went quiet - so to try and some activity off I suggested that rather > than starting from scratch - perhaps we could do a release of the code > we have running as the demo while rethink our approach for what to do next. > > We got a few contributions to Kibble-1 from Georg who had done a test > install and thought that we might be able to move forward with the > Kibble-1 codebase with some fixes. > > So the working codebase is in Kibble-1. > > > > > Also, this email is just going to the developer list, which does not > > have a large subscription. > > > > Maybe consider an email to some ASF Python projects? > > Also dev@community, since I believe reporter.a.o make use of Kibble? > > I did reach out to the ASF Tooling team to see if Kibble could be > interesting for them to take over as it does can provide project wide > statistics (It probably needs a bit of a tidy up to pickup any > incubating or new projects) > > An SVN repo of an earlier version of Kibble was used to create some of > the stats for the reporter.a.o tool - so I don't think it's looking at > the Kibble-1 repo (unless the SVN repo has been moved). The thing I'm > not sure about is whether the reporter tool uses the same DB as Kibble > does to pull the data from as the Kibble scanners run everyday so the > data would be there already to read if needed.
The reporter tool uses https://demo.kibble.apache.org/api/ to get its data. AFAIK, it does not collect any data itself. > If I get a chance I will try and post something to the comdev list. > > Thanks > > Sharan > > > > >> Thanks > >> Sharan > >> > >> > >> > >> > >>
