Vlad, Thanks for the clarification. So the threat of shutting down the project (aka moving to attic) as a way to energize the community. One way to do it and I guess works in many cases...
We should also look into more positive ways of encouraging participation and contribution. Hopefully it's not too late for that. Sanjay On Wed, Jan 9, 2019 at 2:01 PM Vlad Rozov <vro...@apache.org> wrote: > Hi Sanjay, long time, no see. > > This is my attempt to mobilize the community and see if we can revive some > activity on the project. Note that the same discussion happened among PMCs > members 2 month ago and there were promises to contribute back to the > project with no new PRs being open. Should you follow the e-mail thread > thoroughly, you would see that the move to the attic was questioned by the > Apache board, so it was not me who initiated the move. I simply made > community aware that Apex is the subject of the move if it continues the > way it was for the last 6-8 months. With the current activity and no > commitment to make new contributions Apex does belong to the attic. > > Thank you, > > Vlad > > > On Jan 9, 2019, at 12:27, Sanjay Pujare <sanjay.puj...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > Hi Vlad > > > > I have been watching this debate from the sidelines and just decided to > > jump in. > > > > As an Apex PMC member you said "... I am responsible for maintaining the > > correct state of the project...". But let's face it, you don't actually > > have to do it just like you didn't have to make contributions, make > > proposals or do all sorts of other things for keeping the project alive > and > > vibrant. Without doing absolutely anything, PMC members will continue to > > remain PMC members which applies to you as well. > > > > So at this stage, you may do nothing, you may start mobilizing for making > > contributions, you may stop being a member of PMC or you may start this > > drive to move the project to the attic. May I know why you chose the last > > option instead of one of the others? It will be good to know your answer > > before discussing the details of people staying away or being > discouraged. > > > > Sanjay > > > > > > > >
