Hi Cameron and others,
Congratulations indeed for the decision and way forward!
Looking at what for instance the Apache Jakarta Project does, adding a
"Retired projects" page seems a good solution. Elegant and clear. See http://jakarta.apache.org/site/retired-projects.html
I have no problem with seeing such a link in the current projects
listing on the OSGeo homepage.
Ciao,
Jeroen
On Jul 28, 2008, at 4:32 PM, Frank Warmerdam wrote:
Cameron Shorter wrote:
End of life for Community Mapbuilder
We, the Mapbuilder Project Steering Committee, have agreed that the
time has come for the Community Mapbuilder <http://communitymapbuilder.org/
> project to gracefully retire. We will release a final, stable 1.5
version of the software, and afterwards there are no planned
enhancements to Mapbuilder. The web pages and code will be kept
alive, a few bugs might be fixed and we will likely continue
answering user queries, but we expect Mapbuilder will gradually
fade away into history.
Cameron,
I think this is an excellent and professional approach - given a
clear heads
up to the community on the status of things. In fact, I've been
just thrilled
by the degree of cooperation achieved between several of the web
mapping client
side projects in recent years. The experience and efforts focused on
improvement and exploitation of OpenLayers by those involved in
Mapbuilder,
ka-map and other projects has helped turn OpenLayers into what I
would argue
is the "best of breed" role it plays now.
As far as OSGeo process, I agree that we (perhaps within the
incubation
committee?) need to work out an end-of-life/retired status for
projects.
There is no problem continuing to host project resources of course,
but at
some point we would want to release the project from "live status"
reporting
and governance requirements and to remove it from the front page so
not too
many new users are guided to it as a promoted project.
If there is no objection, I'll distribute the eol announcement via the
OSGeo announce mechanism.
Best regards,
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