Since it is basically Mina I/O, I can help maintain FTP Server. It is a lot more “friendly” looking than the SSHD project. Just need to get Eclipse to stop giving me Maven errors when loading the project.
On Wed, Apr 18, 2018 at 11:35 AM, Guillaume Nodet <[email protected]> wrote: > 2018-04-18 10:28 GMT+02:00 Emmanuel Lécharny <[email protected]>: > > > 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 >
