On Mon, Nov 26, 2012 at 6:54 AM, Alan Cabrera <l...@toolazydogs.com> wrote:
> > On Nov 25, 2012, at 7:33 PM, Eric Yang wrote: > > > Hi IPMC, > > > > For the past two years, Chukwa has been labelled as non-active project by > > mentors, and has been put on votes for retiring this project by mentor > and > > IPMC. > > In this year's stats, Chukwa has more activities in comparison to Apache > > Wink in both mailing list traffic and resolved jiras. Yet Chukwa has > been > > voted to discontinue by mentors, but Wink is voted to graduate by the > same > > mentor. Here are the number of mails showed up in dev list between Apache > > Chukwa and Apache Wink: > > Since I am the mentor that started the retirement vote on the podling I > will explain my perspective. > > What it comes down to is actual diverse activity. For me, the > overwhelming bulk of the work for Chukwa was being done by one person. > While looking at the raw numbers the two projects seem similar, if you > scrub the threads where we discuss whether or not to retire Chukwa and also > look at who's doing the actual work, it seems to me that the two projects > are not exactly the same. > > I went ahead and did just that. I read a bunch of the threads and the pattern is that one committer does (mostly small) stuff and the few others typically just say "meh...". It should be emphasized that retirement != project-death-sentence. Chukwa might even do much better as a github project where new contributors can be groomed more aggressively than with an apache project.
