It might be possible to enable GitHub discussions (like Airflow did for
example) to have a plattform for Q&A and user community, which isn't
the traditional ASF way of doing. Of course, dev discussion still need
to be on the list ;)


Am Freitag, dem 03.02.2023 um 15:41 +0200 schrieb Mykyta Piddubskiy:
> It's so sad that Storm probably will be moved to the attic. Honestly,
> we have been using this great system on our prod for a few years but
> I face similar problems people mentioned here as well. It looks like
> the community is either non-active or very low, starting from
> searching for any info about Storm beyond hello world to
> discussions\articles, etc. One big problem for me like for a user is
> the fact that it's really hard to find some people and maybe sites
> for discussions. When I face a few bugs with a storm and saw that
> some users faced it as well, I investigate it a bit on my own and
> then wanted to describe it somewhere like StackOverflow, etc to
> better understand the issue and maybe even help to fix it since its
> hard to fix something along in such a big project but almost nobody
> responded. I wanted to open a Jira bug and maybe discuss it there but
> it's closed for registration for random users. Even tried here in
> "lists.apache.org" but the same result. So maybe community really
> swiftly decreases over time which is sad.
> 
> ср, 1 февр. 2023 г. в 15:09, Richard Zowalla <[email protected]>:
> > Hi Aaron,
> > 
> > I am CC the users@ list as they weren't contained in the initial
> > proposal. Perhaps, there are people or institutions in the wild,
> > who
> > want to volunteer or give it a try (still at the ASF level). 
> > 
> > Of course it shouldn't prevent a VOTE for moving to the attic, but
> > an
> > additional try to get some more attention (if needed).
> > 
> > Gruß
> > Richard
> > 
> > 
> > Am Dienstag, dem 31.01.2023 um 08:00 -0600 schrieb Aaron Niskode-
> > Dossett:
> > > Thank you to those who responded. Given that the low number of
> > > responses I
> > > am going to start a vote on moving to the attic tomorrow.
> > > 
> > > One other note: A vote to move to the attic would not mean the
> > end of
> > > Storm, the project can be forked by anyone who wants to continue
> > the
> > > work
> > > (just as it can be forked today), it would just be outside of the
> > > ASF.
> > > 
> > > On Thu, Jan 26, 2023 at 3:12 AM Richard Zowalla <[email protected]>
> > > wrote:
> > > 
> > > > Hi all,
> > > > 
> > > > I also experienced, that dev@ activity is quite low. I did
> > provide
> > > > some
> > > > PRs and asked questions a few months ago and didn't get any
> > > > feedback,
> > > > although the PRs got merged in the end. I think, that we need
> > some
> > > > sort
> > > > of community rebuilding / revival, if we want to maintain Storm
> > in
> > > > a
> > > > sustainable way (like it is done for TomEE or OpenNLP).
> > > > 
> > > > Nevertheless, as I am also a committer on StormCrawler, which
> > > > relies on
> > > > Storm (obviously) _and_ is used in our research work, I am also
> > > > happy
> > > > to jump in as a volunteer, if some ppl are needed.
> > > > 
> > > > Gruß
> > > > Richard
> > > > 
> > > > 
> > > > Am Mittwoch, dem 25.01.2023 um 22:00 +0000 schrieb Bipin
> > Prasad:
> > > > > I am volunteering to take on the role of PMC chairFor Storm.
> > Not
> > > > > quite sure about the process.
> > > > > Thanks—Bipin Prasad
> > > > > 
> > > > > 
> > > > > Sent from Yahoo Mail for iPhone
> > > > > 
> > > > > 
> > > > > On Wednesday, January 25, 2023, 4:50 PM, Aaron Niskode-
> > Dossett <
> > > > > [email protected]> wrote:
> > > > > 
> > > > > Hello Storm developer community,
> > > > > 
> > > > > In the past year or so this project has slowed down and the
> > > > > Project
> > > > > Management Committee [PMC] has almost no active members.  The
> > PMC
> > > > > chair
> > > > > resigned in 2022 with due notice and noone has since
> > volunteered
> > > > > to
> > > > > assume
> > > > > those duties.  I myself am an inactive PMC member.
> > > > > 
> > > > > This suggests to me that it's time to consider moving this
> > > > > project to
> > > > > the
> > > > > Attic [1].  I would view this as the natural culmination of a
> > > > > very
> > > > > successful Apache project and not as a mark of failure. 
> > There
> > > > > are
> > > > > many,
> > > > > many successful and influential projects in the attic.
> > > > > 
> > > > > The alternative to moving to the attic would be to
> > reconstitute
> > > > > the
> > > > > PMC
> > > > > with *new members* of the development community willing to
> > take
> > > > > on
> > > > > the
> > > > > responsibilities of the project and reporting to the Apache
> > > > > Software
> > > > > Foundation board.
> > > > > 
> > > > > So, please respond to this thread if you are interested in
> > that
> > > > > role.
> > > > > Please also respond if you believe moving to the attic is
> > > > > appropriate.  A
> > > > > vote on moving to the attic may be held on this list in the
> > > > > future.
> > > > > 
> > > > > Thanks you for your time,
> > > > > Aaron
> > > > > 
> > > > > [1] https://attic.apache.org/
> > > > > 
> > > > > 
> > > > > 
> > 

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