Ok. Fair enough.

Imho Karaf-jclouds is probably different as the number of users is very
very thin.

But I understand your points.

I will support of moving to attic anyway. Just wanted to give a chance for
the community to speak up.

The users will find alternatives (maybe forking part of jclouds).

Thanks
Regards
JB

Le sam. 10 déc. 2022 à 11:34, Ignasi Barrera <n...@apache.org> a écrit :

> Even if it is maintenance, now it's not time for just good intentions
> (which are very much appreciated), but time for action, and action is not
> there and my confidence in it happening any time soon is very low.
>
> Let me give you a concrete example:
>
> * In 2019, we voted on moving jcloud-karaf under the Apache Karaf project
> [1] because we were not able to maintain the project properly.
> * The last commit in the transferred project [2] is from 2019 (3 years
> back).
> * That project is still in jclouds 2.2.0, whilst jclouds is in 2.6.0; it's
> still 4 releases behind.
>
> There have been no feature additions, but over 3 years there haven't
> even been maintenance tasks done at all, even just to keep the project up
> to date with upstream jclouds.
>
> Although I appreciate all the good intentions of people volunteering, I
> don't see any action here (as Gaul also requested), and honestly, I think
> repeating the jcloud-karaf story will not do any favor to users. If we
> change the PMC and inactivity continues, jclouds will be even in a worse
> position than it is today: it will keep having an inactive PMC, but
> composed of people that are even less familiar/expert in its codebase.
>
> IMO, if we really care about users, we should see something here beyond the
> much-appreciated good intentions, because we've tried this route in the
> past and it has not worked.
>
>
> [1] https://lists.apache.org/thread/30770j9jwcn14vzczzkbhz37g8q2olc6
> [2] https://github.com/apache/karaf-jclouds
>
>
>
> On Sat, Dec 10, 2022 at 6:58 AM Jean-Baptiste Onofré <j...@nanthrax.net>
> wrote:
>
> > That's a fair comment. As we are mostly talking about "maintenance", I
> > don't wait for any new big features in the short term.
> > As said, the main concern for these guys is about jclouds as an
> > important dependency in their project.
> >
> > I can't speak on their behalf, but I assume Pulsar and Brooklyng guys
> > (at least) want to maintain jclouds alive as dependency.
> >
> > Personally, I prefer to find other approaches (and it's what we do in
> > Apache Sunny and Apache Karaf).
> >
> > Regards
> > JB
> >
> > On Fri, Dec 9, 2022 at 6:55 PM Ignasi Barrera <ignasi.barr...@gmail.com>
> > wrote:
> > >
> > > It's not about me, it's about people volunteering actually stepping up
> > > and starting to take action, and that is not happening.
> > >
> > > You say: 'After some months, we will definitely see if the project is
> > still
> > > alive or not."
> > > It's been 2 months now. In your opinion, how many more months of
> inaction
> > > should we wait, and what's the reasoning behind that number?
> > >
> > > On Fri, Dec 9, 2022 at 6:01 PM Jean-Baptiste Onofré <j...@nanthrax.net>
> > wrote:
> > >
> > > > If you don't want to continue on jclouds (I fully understand this),
> > > > fair enough. But if people still want to maintain it, I don't see any
> > > > issue there.
> > > >
> > > > Is a fork better ? I don't think so. Because, it might happen if we
> > > > retire the project.
> > > >
> > > > As I proposed earlier, if the current PMC members don't want to
> > > > continue on jclouds, but we have potential volunteers to take over, I
> > > > think it's fair to try. Apache is community driven, if we have new
> > > > people in the jclouds community, willing to help, we could be
> > > > "welcoming".
> > > > After some months, we will definitely see if the project is still
> > alive or
> > > > not.
> > > >
> > > > If you absolutely want to retire the project, I'm with you, and then
> > > > pulsar or brooklyn (or another project) will do a fork probably.
> > > >
> > > > Regards
> > > > JB
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > On Fri, Dec 9, 2022 at 3:38 PM Ignasi Barrera <n...@apache.org>
> wrote:
> > > > >
> > > > > I agree with Gaul's comments.
> > > > >
> > > > > If people wants to help, worth to see if it actually happens ;)
> > > > > >
> > > > >
> > > > > It's been 2 months since the proposal of retiring the project and
> to
> > > > date,
> > > > > nothing real happened beyond "I'm in" comments.
> > > > > If at the time of discussing the project retirement, this is all
> the
> > > > energy
> > > > > that is around to maintain it, I don't think it is a setup for
> > success
> > > > and
> > > > > agree with Gaul that we will better serve users by retiring the
> > project.
> > > > >
> > > > >
> > > > >
> > > > > P.S. Geoff, really appreciate your honesty in accounting for your
> > > > bandwidth!
> > > >
> >
>

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