[+1] Learned a lot with you. Thanks

On Thu, 6 Feb, 2020, 12:52 am Serban Mardaloescu, <
[email protected]> wrote:

>   [ -1] Do not retire Taverna
>
> În lun., 3 feb. 2020 la 16:08, Stian Soiland-Reyes <[email protected]> a
> scris:
>
> > Hi,
> >
> > I think we have to be honest with ourselves.
> >
> > While we had a good go at Taverna in the Apache Incubator, and lots of
> > great effort over the years, we seem to have ground to a standstill.
> >
> > It looks now almost impossible that we will graduate from the incubator
> > and continue to thrive as a top-level Apache project.
> >
> > I am as guilty as everyone - emails missed, builds not updated, releases
> > not completed. The tasks were not large, but they still demand continued
> > volunteer effort, which sadly we now seem to have not got anymore.
> >
> >
> > I think I speak for all of you when I am grateful for all the time
> > and effort everyone has committed since we moved to Apache Software
> > Foundation in 2014.
> >
> >
> > It is therefore with sadness that I call this vote on retiring
> > Taverna from the Apache Incubator.
> >
> >
> > I don't think there is any shame if we come to this conclusion,
> > this project started 2003-02-24 and the world of bioinformatics and web
> > services has changed significantly since then.
> >
> >
> > For more information about what retirement means, see
> > https://incubator.apache.org/guides/retirement.html
> >
> > In terms of codebase my suggestion is that we move the git repositories
> > to http://github.com/taverna/ with a clear README indication that
> > they are no longer maintained.
> >
> > I think we should invite anyone on this list to join that GitHub
> > organization for a passive curator role, or to delegate if someone
> > later wants to reboot the activity.
> >
> >
> > See also previous discussion from 2019-09:
> >
> >
> https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/f9db87bf752c1b77773f2f0ac5be9afd34d29a7cff76d66728a0f713%40%3Cdev.taverna.apache.org%3E
> >
> >
> >
> > PLEASE INDICATE YOUR VOTE:
> >
> > [ ] +1 Retire Taverna
> > [ ]  0 Undecided
> > [ ] -1 Do not retire Taverna
> >
> > The vote is open for at least 72 hours for anyone on this list, with a
> > lazy consensus.
> >
> > --
> > Stian Soiland-Reyes
> > https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9842-9718
> >
> >
>

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