> -----Original Message----- > From: Noel J. Bergman [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Friday, June 04, 2004 10:41 AM > To: Jakarta General List > Subject: RE: [Watchdog] Dead? > > > If watchdog is dead, we should move it to the "Graveyard". > > > Noel, you are the incubator guy, any ideas about starting > this process > > - what is involved, any previous threads on the subject. > > First of all, I'm curious to know what you think incubation > has to do with dormant projects. >
You've been involved in formulating a process for the introduction of projects, I'd imagine you have views on the removal of projects. Which you do (below). > Secondly, I'm not one who favors "closing" an open source > project. Ever. I didn't really agree with closing > java.apache.org. Although I do agree with closing that > domain, in retrospect, I'd have moved the content to Jakarta. > In my view, dormant projects should have their scm resources > left in place, and can have their mailing addresses reflected > to a communal list, such as [EMAIL PROTECTED] (or > community@, although I a separate address might be better). > > It isn't as if a dormant project rots and deteriorates. It > isn't costing anything unless there is activity. If there > are users who want to be active, eventually people are going > to have to step up and become stewards. > If a dormant project is revived by a new group, great. If > not, it just sits fallow. "Burying" a project makes it far > less likely that users will be able to organize around it. I > would certainly indicate that a project is currently dormant, > if only to let potential users know that there isn't the kind > of active community that they should expect from an ASF project. > I think that dormancy is a problem which is fixed by discussions like the one we are currently having. If no one had stood up and taken at least minimal responsibility for updating some sort of status, I'm not sure it would have been a good idea to just let Watchdog flounder indefinitely. This doesn't happen very frequently, but when it does, I think it is valuable to have the opportunity to gain consensus to formally mark something as being currently inactive. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
