2015-05-28 16:31 GMT+02:00 Mike Kienenberger <mkien...@gmail.com>: > On Thu, May 28, 2015 at 10:02 AM, Antonio Petrelli > <antonio.petre...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Please don't complain, but maintain. You can fork it in Github, > participate > > with patches, you can even publish your fork (changing its name). > > I was working for Velocity some years ago, remember that most of us are > not > > paid by anyone to do this work, we are all volunteers. Apache projects > are > > not made "by professionals", although someone invests money on them, but > > it's not always this way. > ... > But when repository branches do not build from source, releases do not > build from source, and no one seems to be around to suggest how it's > supposed to work, the Velocity development team destroys the ability > to attract and maintain new community members, which can only lead to > the project's slow death and migration to the Attic. >
And probably it is the best, but saddest, thing to do. Antonio
