Hi All, I'm writing this to the dev@ list because it most likely concerns everyone observing the list as well as the PMC. Also I think that any views/opinions from folks other than the PMC would be very helpful in us obtaining consensus about what to do with Apache Any23.
Basically, the board report (which I've pasted below) was rejected and I suspect that we need to decide what we are doing before the board will accept a report from us. I've now initiated a [DISCUSS] thread over on [email protected] which can be monitored here [0]. Basically the thread is an attempt to keep Any23 alive. I am positive that we will get reasonable feedback as the Tika community is not only vibrant but also pretty diverse. As we now know, the alternative is the attic. I suppose we can wait and see what the script is. Thanks for now Lewis [0] http://www.mail-archive.com/dev%40tika.apache.org/ ========================= [BEGINNING OF REPORT] Hi Board@, Having missed last months report, this months report is rather peculiar in the sense that we are at crossroad within the very few (active) members of the community as to where to take the project. Progress has been very very slow. There have been a couple of new users of the software but the community, for all intent and means, has been unable to help them on mailing list. It is therefore sad that new users questions have gone virtually unanswered... which is a real pity. This email I suppose serves to act as a direct line of communicating the current community position within Apache Any23. This is not the first time that the attic has been mentioned. It is also important to say that we intend to approach the Apache Tika community in an attempt to invoke motivation behind merging some/all of the Any23 codebase into Apache Tika as there are numerous areas which one could define as being of common interest to both projects. I am kicking off this discussion on [email protected] after I close this thread. If a formal report in the usual structure is required then I will be more than happy to post it here, however in all honesty there is literally zilch to report. Thanks [END OF REPORT] ============================ -- *Lewis*
