That sounds like retirement to me.  The way I've always seen it is that
podlings don't fail, the people behind them simply had a change in
priorities.

Gossip is a great toolkit that I believe people will continue to use.

John


On Thu, Jun 28, 2018, 12:44 PM Josh Elser <els...@apache.org> wrote:

> I've been trying to be patient around this, but I think this month's
> incubator report must be "Gossip is going to exit incubation" (I'm not
> sure what the proper verb is here; I only know that "retire" is wrong)
>
> We've gone through many months where the only traffic I've seen on the
> mailing list are the report reminders.
>
> This doesn't need to be interpreted as "Gossip is a failure at the ASF"
> or anything of the such. It just means "It's not the right time for
> Gossip at the ASF incubator". By all means, we can bring it back into
> incubation if we get some more community traction behind the project.
>
> On 6/27/18 5:41 PM, jmcl...@apache.org wrote:
> > Dear podling,
> >
> > This email was sent by an automated system on behalf of the Apache
> > Incubator PMC. It is an initial reminder to give you plenty of time to
> > prepare your quarterly board report.
> >
> > The board meeting is scheduled for Wed, 18 July 2018, 10:30 am PDT.
> > The report for your podling will form a part of the Incubator PMC
> > report. The Incubator PMC requires your report to be submitted 2 weeks
> > before the board meeting, to allow sufficient time for review and
> > submission (Wed, July 04).
> >
> > Please submit your report with sufficient time to allow the Incubator
> > PMC, and subsequently board members to review and digest. Again, the
> > very latest you should submit your report is 2 weeks prior to the board
> > meeting.
> >
> > Candidate names should not be made public before people are actually
> > elected, so please do not include the names of potential committers or
> > PPMC members in your report.
> >
> > Thanks,
> >
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> >
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> >
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> >
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> > *   A list of the three most important issues to address in the move
> >      towards graduation.
> > *   Any issues that the Incubator PMC or ASF Board might wish/need to be
> >      aware of
> > *   How has the community developed since the last report
> > *   How has the project developed since the last report.
> > *   How does the podling rate their own maturity.
> >
> > This should be appended to the Incubator Wiki page at:
> >
> > https://wiki.apache.org/incubator/July2018
> >
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> >
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