Hi Roman, Rafa and fellow Stanbolers. I'm Dileepa Jayakody, a committer of Apache Stanbol project since 2014. While I was engaging in the dev list and development of the project for couple of years, due to other engagements, I must admit my contributions have been very low since.
However, I think there is a lot we can do to revive the project. Looking at the Jira tracker[1] I think we can start by fixing the bugs and work towards a new release. Would love to see Stanbol active again, and see the senior developers back on the list :) I will start to engage again as much as possible. Thanks, Dileepa [1] https://issues.apache.org/jira/projects/STANBOL/summary On Thu, Oct 18, 2018 at 1:15 PM Rafa Haro <rh...@apache.org> wrote: > Hi Roman, > > I'm Rafa Haro, current PMC member of Apache Stanbol. I think we have > discussed this situation a couple of times in the past few months. There > were a similar inquiry recently and back then, at least 3 "active" > (including me) PMC members responded with similar answers: we would be > somehow available for bug fixing, attend the mailing lists and so on but, > because of lack of time, further contributions like working on the backlog, > community development....had to be eventually abandoned. I think this > situation is extensible to most of current committers. Within the same > threads, there were Stanbol's users that were interesting in taking the > project out of this "blockage" but the reality is that this situation has > remained the same for months and the activity at the mailing lists is > minimum. So maybe yeah, probably it is a shame and maybe it is time to > archive the project. > > I'm not sure which are the implications of putting the project into the > Attic from the organisation point of view, but in my honest opinion it is > that or, somehow, I don't know exactly how, try to find or extend the > community with new members interested in further improvements and uses > cases around Stanbol that could lead to resurrect the project. > > Warm regards from Seville > > On Thu, Oct 18, 2018 at 3:15 AM Roman Shaposhnik <r...@apache.org> wrote: > > > On Sun, Oct 7, 2018 at 9:47 AM Roman Shaposhnik <r...@apache.org> wrote: > > > > > > Hi! > > > > > > a few months ago Shane Curcuru started this discussion > > > around the level of PMC activity in the project: > > > > > > https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/7f85aecc5180b85d888cf63a8136521739e5e1ee74ae167abd3ab9ff@%3Cdev.stanbol.apache.org%3E > > > > > > at the time it seemed like the consensus was: there's > > > enough folks interested in at least overseeing mechanics > > > of the PMC. However if a few months since it would seem > > > that we're back to where Shane's discussion started. > > > > > > Now, this is, of course, based on my cursory review of mailing > > > list and JIRA activity, but it seems that out of the current 22 PMC > > > members only one or two are active (and I don't mean writing > > > code active, but at least supporting "mechanics" of the PMC): > > > http://people.apache.org/phonebook.html?pmc=stanbol > > > > > > I'm wondering, perhaps, if it would benefit the project to consider > > > expanding the PMC to include the other 4 committers and/or > > > some of the project's active users. > > > > > > Thoughts? > > > > Hi Again! > > > > it seems that there hasn't been much of a feedback on this thread so > > I'm expanding it to users@ as well. > > > > The concern here is that unless the community comes up with at least 3 > > reasonably active PMC > > members to make sure that the project can continue it may be end up > > "archived" into Apache Attic. > > > > Now, these PMC members do NOT have to be existing PMC members, if > > there's enough enthusiastic > > folks in the user community we can definitely look into "rebooting" > > the PMC that way. > > > > If anybody is interested in making sure that Stanbol continues as an > > active Apache project -- please > > reply to this thread. > > > > Thanks, > > Roman. > > >
