So, any thoughts about the 1.5.0 release? Any volunteers to step up as the
release manager?

Happy holidays everyone.
  Cos

On Tue, Dec 16, 2014 at 04:25AM, Konstantin Boudnik wrote:
> There was a number of discussions to get 1.5 out of the doors in the last few
> months. And I think it even got to the point where it was literally almost
> ready for it. But then Brett had to take care about other things and the
> momentum was gone again. 
> 
> If there's a champion that can do the release, I as a mentor will be happy to
> help with it from the IPMC standpoint. And even if later we'll decide that no
> more releases are needed - as it might have matured enough or for another
> reason - it will at least have a logical end-point of its life-cycle. 
> 
> So, shall we release it in the next say 2 weeks?
>   Cos
> 
> 
> On Mon, Dec 15, 2014 at 06:00PM, Roman Shaposhnik wrote:
> > If you guys think that the state of the code based is such
> > that you can do a release I can most likely help get you
> > 3 IPMC members to vote on it.
> > 
> > Then we can do one final release and retire the poddling.
> > 
> > Thanks,
> > Roman.
> > 
> > On Mon, Dec 15, 2014 at 11:21 AM, David Akehurst <d...@akehurst.net> wrote:
> > > How.  I'll do it if no one else does!
> > >
> > > Might even clone the code and release it myself anyways.
> > >
> > > On Monday, 15 December 2014, David Akehurst <d...@akehurst.net> wrote:
> > >
> > >> Yes please release 1.5
> > >>
> > >>
> > >>
> > >> On Monday, 15 December 2014, Lars Corneliussen // Zen 
> > >> <m...@lcorneliussen.de
> > >> <javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','m...@lcorneliussen.de');>> wrote:
> > >>
> > >>> Hi Roman,
> > >>>
> > >>> even though it "hurts" I think retiring the project is the right thing 
> > >>> to
> > >>> do.
> > >>> Not because of the quality of NPanday, but just because the (developer!)
> > >>> community is effectively gone.
> > >>>
> > >>> While I'm still using NPanday every day (1.5 snapshot), it is all on the
> > >>> same project and there is no need for further development currently.
> > >>>
> > >>> And just the fact that we haven't been able to release 1.5 for ages 
> > >>> shows
> > >>> the lack of a functioning community.
> > >>>
> > >>> I might invest in releasing 1.5 - but I might also keep saying this the
> > >>> years to come.
> > >>>
> > >>> Although for releasing 1.5 we wouldn't need more than somebody just 
> > >>> doing
> > >>> the release with how 1.5 is now.
> > >>>
> > >>> http://incubator.apache.org/npanday/docs/1.5.0-incubating-SNAPSHOT/developers/releasing.html
> > >>>
> > >>> So if someone volunteers - just go ahead.
> > >>> _
> > >>> Lars
> > >>>
> > >>> -----Ursprüngliche Nachricht-----
> > >>> Von: shaposh...@gmail.com [mailto:shaposh...@gmail.com] Im Auftrag von
> > >>> Roman Shaposhnik
> > >>> Gesendet: Sonntag, 14. Dezember 2014 19:29
> > >>> An: npanday-dev@incubator.apache.org
> > >>> Cc: npanday-us...@incubator.apache.org
> > >>> Betreff: Re: Determining next steps for the NPanday
> > >>>
> > >>> On Sun, Dec 14, 2014 at 2:08 AM, David Akehurst <d...@akehurst.net>
> > >>> wrote:
> > >>> > I would like it to stay
> > >>> > I have done some development for it
> > >>>
> > >>> Please note that retirement doesn't make source code go away -- it will
> > >>> still be available for you to use and hack on.
> > >>>
> > >>> Retirement is ASF's way of telling outside world that even though source
> > >>> is still there and available, the community is gone. Now, as I said, the
> > >>> measure of the community "being there" could be interpreted as *at the 
> > >>> very
> > >>> least* having 3 active participants since all decisions would require 3
> > >>> votes minimum.
> > >>>
> > >>> Not sure if NPanday has that, but would love to be contradicted.
> > >>>
> > >>> Thanks,
> > >>> Roman.
> > >>>
> > >>> P.S. Finally, should 3 active participants show up after the retirement,
> > >>> reviving the project takes very little time.
> > >>> Hence its not like a permanent state of things.
> > >>>
> > >>>

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