Indeed, retirement is not the death of a project, but rather one way to exit the Incubator. There is no shame in it. The ASF isn’t the best fit for every project.
-Taylor > On Sep 20, 2018, at 7:49 PM, Lukasz Cwik <[email protected]> wrote: > > Thanks for info, I wasn't aware of what retiring meant, I assumed > (incorrectly) that retiring = death of a project. > >> On Thu, Sep 20, 2018 at 4:45 PM Manu Zhang <[email protected]> wrote: >> Hi Luke, >> >> (On behalf of Gearpump runner) >> >> Getting retired (from Apache) doesn't mean the end of Gearpump as a project >> but to make it easier to commit and release for, honestly speaking, a small >> community. >> I've been maintaining Gearpump runner and will strive for better integration >> here. >> I agree we should revisit this question if the runner is too much of a >> burden. >> >> Thanks, >> Manu Zhang >> >>> On Fri, Sep 21, 2018 at 6:34 AM Lukasz Cwik <[email protected]> wrote: >>> Datatorrent the largest contributor to the Apex project has closed shop[1], >>> the project hasn't retired but development has significantly slowed down. >>> The Gearpump project has voted to retire[2]. >>> >>> Do people know if these runners are being used? >>> Do people spend enough time on supporting/updating code in these areas or >>> looking at test flakes that warrant supporting them still? >>> Are there other runners in a similar situation as to Apex or Gearpump? >>> Should we revisit this question once we have a larger integration that we >>> want to do like SplittableDoFn or portability? >>> >>> 1: >>> https://www.datanami.com/2018/05/08/datatorrent-stream-processing-startup-folds/ >>> 2: >>> https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/03fc0421bb425f79d623863335bc2b81e4b6c77a169f508aadce7785@%3Cdev.gearpump.apache.org%3E
