The thread has been open for almost two weeks now, and as far I can see the
consensus is pretty much there. I will start a new thread to [VOTE] on the
proposed board resolution to move the project to the Attic.

Thanks
  Cos

On Tue, Mar 15, 2016 at 12:33PM, Konstantin Boudnik wrote:
> Hello.
> 
> I want to start the discussion about the near future of the project. Here's my
> line of thinking. The MapReduce paradigm is clearly dying out and is getting
> replaced more and more either by new MapReduce-like platforms (think Spark) or
> by direct streaming processing and in-memory systems, completely going around
> the batch.
> 
> MRUnit is definitely a good project to help developers to deal with MR
> realities before the code hits the cluster. But evidently there isn't much
> activity going on as dev@ list traffic (literally <10 JIRA messages/month) [1]
> and line of releases indicate. According to reporter.apache.org the last
> release had happened on May 2012, but I found some email evidence that 1.1.0
> was out in June 2014 [2](?)
> 
> Hence, is it a time perhaps to move MRUnit to attic [3]? There's no shame in
> it. If anything, it is a part of the natural cycle of any software project.
> And most important, the code base will not go anywhere and can be resurrected
> any time if there's a community to work on it.
> 
> Thoughts?
>   Cos
> 
> 1. https://mail-archives.apache.org/mod_mbox/mrunit-dev/
> 2. http://is.gd/mgFXsC
> 3. http://attic.apache.org/
> 


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