[X] +1 for termination of WSRP4J Dormant inactive projects are confusing. Termination is the right approach
Ate Douma wrote: > Dear Portals PMC and Portals community members, > > The WSRP4J incubator project has been dormant for several years already. > The last commit dates back almost 2 years ago, the last emails send to > the user/dev mailing list even longer than that. > > An important activity blocker for the Portals committers has been the > unclear situation with the possible IP issue. > That issue has finally been addressed sometime last year and no longer > holds a lock on further progress for the project. > > However, although there is known interest in a proper WSRP > implementation within Apache Portals, especially when integrated with > the Jetspeed-2 Portal, it looks like the WSRP4J project itself lost > its momentum, its active committers and its community. > > The facts are: the current WSRP4J code base is now too outdated: based > on also outdated Pluto 1.x and targeting the WSRP v1.0 spec while the > WSRP v2.0 spec is available already for almost 2 years now. > > If a proper WSRP implementation is wished for, it should now implement > the v2.0 spec and should be easy to integrate with (at least) current > Jetspeed-2 Portal. Trying to revive the WSRP4J project or even just > reusing the outdated code-base for that purpose no longer makes sense. > More likely we'll start writing a new WSRP (v2.0) producer from > scratch within the Jetspeed-2 project itself, and a generic WSRP > consumer portlet application at Portals Applications. > > As the Mentors of the WSRP4J project haven't been active in a long > time either, the Portals PMC as Sponsor of WSRP4J has taken over their > responsibilities. > > Therefore I'm asking the Portals PMC to VOTE for proposing the > termination of the WSRP4J podling to the Incubator PMC. > > This Vote is open for the next 72 hours. > > Please cast your vote: > > [ ] +1 for termination of WSRP4J > [ ] 0 for Don't care > [ ] -1 for No, please keep it alive (do provide solid arguments why) > > With kind regards, > > Ate Douma > > > >
