Did this discussion concluded? What was the conclusion? I would like to see Ripple to have a healthy future and if having it as a sub-project on Cordova ensures it, I would like to help with that. I think we can have one or two people from Red Hat assisting on the maintenance of Ripple. This probably is not enough for a top-level project but may be enough to continue as a sub-project.
Also, I know there are tools (folks from MSFT, I am looking at you) that use ripple, they may also be ultimately interested on the well being of the project. -- Gorkem On Tue, Apr 22, 2014 at 10:30 AM, Brent Lintner <[email protected]> wrote: > Hey All, > > Since becoming an incubator project (being donated graciously by > BlackBerry), Ripple has seen positive contributions. > > However, it is also apparent that the community does not seem large enough > to sustain a project like this as a top level project (let alone an > individual PMC). > > Three of the original contributors/creators of Ripple are now fully > involved in a new technology startup in an unrelated field and therefore we > no longer have the resources to support Ripple in ASF. Also, BlackBerry has > given no resources to help since donating Ripple to the ASF (this might be > due to a change in their internal priorities). > > Given this, I would like to propose: > > 1. We find more community members willing to lead committership of the > project, and see how that goes. > > 2. We also consider the eventuality of folding Ripple into another ASF > project, if possible. If so, it would seem Cordova is a candidate for this, > especially given the project being one of Ripple's main focus and support. > If the community votes for this, we should involve the Cordova community to > gage their interests as well (I've CC'd their mailing list in this email). > > 3. If the above does not work out, I would then suggest we consider the > most unfortunate (put perhaps prudent) eventuality, which is to "fail" > Ripple as an incubator project. "fail" is this case, not being negative. > > And, if it does fail incubation- what does ASF normally do with the > project? > > Does it get donated back to the original party? Does it get moved to an > open source project outside of ASF (under a different license)? > > Any insight would be appreciated! > > -- > Brent Lintner >
