Dave, Alan, Thanks for your interest. Indeed the project has not been active in the last two years or so, and retirement is clearly a possibility at this point. While I think that technically the project is still valuable, we haven't been able to foster a community around it. Rebooting the project is possible but it requires a large time and energy commitment from the maintainers of the project.
What does everyone else on the list think? Is it time to retire from the incubator? Cheers, -- Gianmarco On Tue, Jun 4, 2019 at 8:46 AM Nicolas Kourtellis <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi all, > > Thank you Alan and Dave for the concerns. > > Indeed in the last couple of years the community has been slow to work on > PRs and move things forward due to several commitments from everyone. > So, I think we (the Samoa team) need to have a long discussion about the > future of the project soon. > > In the meantime, can you tell us what are the options we have available at > this point within the Apache ecosystem? > > Thanks for the advice! > > Nicolas > > On Mon, Jun 3, 2019 at 11:34 PM Alan Gates <[email protected]> wrote: > > > I agree that we need to see activity in the podling very soon or move > > towards retirement. Mentors have brought up concerns before in Sept 2018 > > [1], March 2018 [2], December 2017 [3], March 2017 [4], and December 2016 > > [5]. Should we ask them to report again next month and if we don't see > > strong indications of progress move towards retirement? > > > > Alan. > > > > 1. https://wiki.apache.org/incubator/September2018 > > 2. https://wiki.apache.org/incubator/March2018 > > 3. https://wiki.apache.org/incubator/December2017 > > 4. https://wiki.apache.org/incubator/March2017 > > 5. https://wiki.apache.org/incubator/December2016 > > > > On Mon, Jun 3, 2019 at 12:47 PM Dave Fisher <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > Hi - > > > > > > AFAICT It's been almost two years since the last commits to Master. > There > > > are PRs open that are yet to be merged. There is little discussion on > the > > > dev@ mailing list in the last year. > > > > > > Will the podling reboot? If not then it seems to be time to discuss > > > retirement. > > > > > > Retirement does not mean that SAMOA has to go away. The repository may > be > > > forked and activity moved elsewhere. > > > > > > Regards, > > > Dave > > > > > > > > -- > Nicolas Kourtellis >
