Hi, Retire doesn't mean the project no longer exists, it can continue to live on somewhere (e.g GitHub), just not at the ASF. That's OK the ASF is not for everyone and a different way of operating as an open source project may be better for you.
The facts as I see them: You have missed multiple board reports in a row and repeated requests to submit one have been ignored. Your last submitted board report was in November 2017 [1] as far as I can tell, please correct me if I'm mistaken. Anyone can write the board report, even if your PPMC is missing. It is a requirement that the reports are submitted quarterly, if you miss one (which is OK) they need to be submitted in the next month, so by my rough calculations that makes 10 months in a row this project has not reported. There is little to no email on this mailing list and it seems that any activity that is taking place external to the repos hosted at the ASF. Does anyone disagree with the above? Given all this can someone tell me what benefit it will the project gain from continuing to be in the Apache incubator? I'm sorry but I don't see that people are ready to jump in and help out here or they would of done that. I'm also sorry that you don't support the idea of retirement, but if there is no project oversight by the PPMC and activity is happening elsewhere then I can't see how project can continue in the Apache incubator. Currently I can't see how this project could graduate as a TLP Apache project without a lot of work. If any of the mentors of this project disagree with anything I've said above please speak up, as you know this project far better than I. Thanks, Justin V.P. Incubator 1. https://whimsy.apache.org/board/minutes/Milagro.html
