On 05/10/2015 19:11, Scott Wilson wrote:
On 5 Oct 2015, at 18:11, Ross Gardler <[email protected]> wrote:
Thanks Scott,
I recommend the board report for this month indicate that there is a discussion
thread underway (this one) and that we will vote and act before the next
reporting session.
Good call.
That gives us a whole quarter to ensure this is the right thing for the project.
For what it is worth I’m +0 on the proposal. There are more than three active
PMC members (from an oversight perspective), but it seems no development is
underway as you say. If there are users out there who want to keep the project
alive now is the time to step up.
I’ve been contacting developers who’ve been mentioning the project in recent
events - not many, but there are a few, and it would be good to give them an
opportunity to get involved. I’m happy to mentor anyone who wants to take an
active role in steering the project.
I'm guessing that Scotts Idea to try to get new engagement into the
project is a good one, hopefully we can find some developers before we
to decide to move wookie into the attic or not.
Ross
From: Scott Wilson [mailto:[email protected]]
Sent: Monday, October 5, 2015 10:00 AM
To: [email protected]
Subject: Move Wookie to the Attic?
In our recent reports to the ASF Board we’ve raised the possibility of Wookie
moving to the Attic[1], given we haven’t been able to grow our community over
the past two years.
I think now is as good a time as any to make that decision, and so I’m
proposing we recommend that the Board moves Wookie to the Attic in our report
this month.
When a project moves to the Attic it means it is no longer being actively
developed at ASF; however the code remains available for anyone using it, and
if anyone wishes to take the code and make use of it outside of ASF (e.g.
creating a fork) they are very welcome to do so.
However, there will be no further official ASF releases unless the project is
“rebooted” by putting it back into the Incubator to build a new community
around it.
There is no urgency in this as we still have enough PMC members to vote on
releases, and none of us are actively withdrawing, so if anyone does object to
the idea of moving Wookie to the Attic please speak up. If anyone in the
community wants to take the project forwards that would be very welcome!
S
[1] http://attic.apache.org/
