I'm fine to wait three months, though I think coming back to the mentors in a month and reporting on how the reinvigoration efforts are going would be good. I would not set a new release as the criteria to hit in three months, as going from near zero activity to a release in three months will be challenging. If in three months we see multiple contributors, activity on the mailing list, and contributions/PRs being reviewed and integrated I'd say the podling is starting to grow again.
Alan. On Tue, Jun 4, 2019 at 11:34 PM Albert Bifet <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi, > > Can we wait three months to decide if we retire it from the incubator? > If there is no new release, we should retire it from the incubator. > I'll try to ask internally for some help for doing a new release. > > Cheers, > > Albert > > > On Wed, Jun 5, 2019 at 12:47 AM Gianmarco De Francisci Morales > <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > 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 > > > >
