I agree it is time. Well said Jeremy! Thanks for sharing. I have fond memories of Jini conferences in Chicago and Brussels (even if all I remember is the Delirium Cafe).
Dan Rollo > On Feb 9, 2022, at 10:03 AM, Jeremy R. Easton-Marks > <j.r.eastonma...@gmail.com> wrote: > > I, sadly, agree that it is time to move this project to the Attic. While I > hoped to work on this as a side project, I have not been able to carve out > time for it. While I do think this project has a lot of potential, without > some type of sponsorship in time and resources I don't see it moving > forward. Thank you Roy for stepping up as the chair as well as the rest of > the River team for contributing to this project over the years. It has been > great watching the discussions in these threads. > > On a personal note, seeing this project move into the Attic while sad, it > will hopefully be cathartic. My father, Peter C. Marks, was one of the > original developers at Sun who worked on Jini. I remember him being very > excited about the potential for the technology and he enjoyed demoing it. I > even remember accompanying him to Amsterdam to demo it at a conference when > I was younger. I have some of the original Jini books sitting in my office > right now that have been signed by some of the original team members. > > I had hoped to see the project keep going, maybe with it moving into the > Attic River can move forward in a different way. > > On Mon, Feb 7, 2022 at 6:41 PM Roy T. Fielding <field...@gbiv.com> wrote: > >> Hello everyone, >> >> It's that time of year when I try to figure out what I am doing and >> what I am not, and try to cut back on the stuff that seems unlikely >> to succeed. I suspect the same is true of others. >> >> I had hoped that more new people at River would result in more activity, >> but that hasn't occurred over the past 9 months and doesn't seem likely >> in the future. Aside from ASF echoes and Infra-driven website replacement, >> there has been nothing to report about River the entire time that I have >> been the chair pro tem, and there hasn't been any chatter by users either. >> >> Please feel free to let me know if I am missing something. >> >> If not, I'd like us to accept the reality of this situation and move the >> River project to the Attic. The code will still be available there, and >> folks are welcome to copy it under the license, move it to Github, or >> otherwise seek to re-mold it into a collaborative project wherever is >> most convenient for them. >> >> Cheers, >> >> ....Roy >> >> > > -- > Jeremy R. Easton-Marks > > "être fort pour être utile"
