Thanks for bringing this up Bikas! I agree with JB - in my opinion, this project must graduate, one way or another.
Maybe we could organize a meeting with any contributors that we can reach and discuss how we can make this happen? Thanks, Renat -----Original Message----- From: Jean-Baptiste Onofre <j...@nanthrax.net> Sent: Thursday, June 3, 2021 9:26 AM To: d...@livy.apache.org Cc: d...@livy.incubator.apache.org; u...@livy.incubator.apache.org Subject: [EXTERNAL] Re: Graduate or retire Hi Bikas, Thanks for bringing this here. I would push for graduation, but only if we see community activity starting from now. Regards JB > Le 3 juin 2021 à 18:22, Bikas Saha <bi...@apache.org> a écrit : > > Hi all, > > Apache Livy is a successful project that has met many of its initial design > goals to provide interactive access to spark jobs. It appears to be widely > used by many organizations and users. However, project development has been > inactive due to lack of demand for new features and relative stability of the > code base. > > At this point there are 2 options for the project given its incubating status > > 1. Graduate - The project has been following the Apache way in its release > process and community. It can graduate as long as there are 3 pmc willing to > continue to manage the project. Also, volunteers are needed to complete the > graduation checklist and help move the project through the graduation process. > * > https://nam06.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fincubator.apache.org%2Fguides%2Fgraduation.html&data=04%7C01%7Crebekbol%40microsoft.com%7C6b6a4d5a20d84e25178708d926ac48ef%7C72f988bf86f141af91ab2d7cd011db47%7C1%7C0%7C637583343689586933%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000&sdata=qWskl1tWyOOrfekmRgmf%2FqZ5VfEhVQmy0gBATV%2FiMck%3D&reserved=0 > 2. Retire - The project will be retired and no longer be supported by the > ASF development process. Its website will be deleted and generally new > releases would not be available. The biggest drawback of this for the user > community is that security patches like the recent CVE release in Feb 21 will > not be made available. That can be a blocker for many organizations. > * > https://nam06.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fincubator.apache.org%2Fguides%2Fretirement.html&data=04%7C01%7Crebekbol%40microsoft.com%7C6b6a4d5a20d84e25178708d926ac48ef%7C72f988bf86f141af91ab2d7cd011db47%7C1%7C0%7C637583343689586933%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000&sdata=Fk%2BDZHPKVn0ZAxJXozWtFaK2lT7zU67JzHjcxqwZ94s%3D&reserved=0 > > What does the community think about this situation and how to proceed? Should > we graduate or retire? > > When supporting graduation, please indicate willingness to drive the > graduation process and subsequently participate in the project pmc. > > Bikas >