2018-04-18 10:28 GMT+02:00 Emmanuel Lécharny <elecha...@gmail.com>: > Hi guys, > > I'd like to ask your opinion about what we should do with the FtpServer > project. > > There is little activity around it, and in the last 3 years, I was the > only one committig patches and code to the source base. > > OTOH, I know this project is being used, as we have bug reports > periodically. > > At this point, I'd like to know what you think we should o about it : > > o move it to attic >
I think the attic does not bring much to the community. It should already be pretty obvious that it's not actively developped. The attic is imho interesting for a whole project, because the PMC is not capable of overseeing the project anymore. For a subproject, it does not bring anything > o keep going and trying to find new committers > Definitely, if people are interested in contributing, we should invite them as committers with a very low entry-bar. > o having some existing committers more actively taking care of the code > base > > Ideally speaking, the third solution is the best, the second is ok too, > but requires some people to step in. > > I don't have any time to investigate bug reports that are related to the > FTP functionality (I pretty much know nothing about FTP), but I can > spend time applying patches, fixing obvious bugs, or cutting releases. > Same here... > So, what's your opinion ? I'm not actively tracking JIRA issues. I wonder if there would be a better way of applying patches. Maybe github PR could be automatically validated (i.e. run a full build on CI) and could be made more visible somehow ? That way, if we know they build passes, a quick check could be sufficient to merge the PR. > > Many thanks ! > > PS: if any user is interested in participating in the project, we can > easily vote them in as committer : this is an open source project, those > who want to be part of it are very welcome. > > -- > Emmanuel Lecharny > > Symas.com > directory.apache.org > > -- ------------------------ Guillaume Nodet
