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/ > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > >
