No - once it's in the attic it's an inactive project. It can either be
restarted at Apache (Incubator being the obvious direction) or forked
externally (with linking from Apache). I guess you could also fork it to
Apache Labs.

Hen


On Sun, Jul 28, 2013 at 12:47 AM, Gregory (Grisha) Trubetskoy <
gri...@apache.org> wrote:

>
> If someone wanted to fix a bug or finish a feature or resolve a Jira issue
> on a project that is currently in the attic (speicifically I'm referring to
> mod_python in this case), what is the ASF policy on that?
>
> Do we have a process by which contributions could still be accepted from
> former committers (or outside, provided that at least one member of the
> former PMC is around to vet), even if perhaps such a project may not see a
> release in any forseable future, or is the only option available is to fork
> the project somewhere outside of ASF (e.g. Github) and do it there?
>
> In this particular case a number of fixes have been made over the years by
> various other parties (distro vendors, etc), and they are not reflected in
> SVN but are rather scattered across the web. Seems like it wouild be of
> general benifit to humanity to have them consolidated if someone would be
> willing to put in the time.
>
> Thank you,
>
> Grisha
>

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