-- project status --
The last word of discussion some 3 months ago was about infra, the
creation of the lokahi wiki site. It has since been unused. Some
banter on the tail end of ApacheCon EU/07 included ideas about docs
and deployment help, and some ideas about DB backends.
The last commit activity in the same timeframe were the beginnings
of a jackrabbit connector, no other activity for commits@ since then.
There has been no activity on private.
-- commentary --
Of course it was summer, nobody at the ASF expects measurable milestones
etc in the development of open source. Things move at the speed of the
project participants. Heathy/dead project definitions hide the fact
that the code is there for people to use, and there may be either little
to change in the current code (it just works), or things are just clear.
However, there is identified a need to provide a non-proprietary database
backend before the project graduates. There's also an identified need to
add documentation of how to at least deploy and get started using/testing
lokahi.
Once those are done there really isn't a big reason to be in the incubator,
except that the community is very small, which gives the IPMC and the board
concern that it doesn't have enough interest to be maintained or overseen.
The incubator PMC really needs some folks to speak up on this thread of
their intent to remain (return to being) active at this project. It's
amazing how the positive reception ("That's exactly what we we've been
looking for!" or "That's what we were attempting to implement" or simply
"Wow, you mean there actually is one out there???") There's a need, there
is an audience. There's even (good) code. Are there participants?
Bill
