<peanutgallery> "Napping" immediately came to mind when reading Jim's note <g>
I agree wrt "dormant"; although it is exactly what we're talking about, it insinuates something negative. "Ripe" is hilarious. How about something along the lines of "holding" or "at rest"? </peanutgallery> - Sally >________________________________ > From: "[email protected]" <[email protected]> >To: [email protected] >Cc: Ingie <[email protected]>; [email protected] >Sent: Thursday, 19 September 2013, 11:07 >Subject: Re: [DISCUSS] Retirement into the Attic > > >I like this idea, especially the relaxing of the reporting schedule. > >But I worry about the connotation of "dormant". Perhaps "mature", >"sustaining", "stable", "steady-state", "lasting"? > >"Ripe"? ^_^ > >--k > >On 2013.Sep.19, at 7.16a, Jim Jagielski <[email protected]> wrote: > >> This is a good point. Sometimes projects are just done, and >> retiring them to the Attic does portray a project that >> is no longer relevant or used or useful. Nor will people >> pick up and start using projects in the Attic. >> >> Maybe we need some other classification of project, like >> 'Dormant'. These would be projects that could obtain the >> required 3 developers and votes, but basically are >> just done; their reporting could be every 6 months, etc... >> >> Thoughts? >> >> On Sep 19, 2013, at 3:39 AM, Ingie <[email protected]> wrote: >> >>> Dear Chris, >>> >>> I use Click for several apps for years. I started with 2.3.0 and now I >>> use.... hm..... 2.3.0 ;) >>> >>> There are number of reasons that makes this project different. >>> >>> 1. Not so many bugfixes as usual. Because it's JUST WORKS. Apps based on >>> Click are very stable. >>> 2. Lack of activity in discussions, no documentation updates, no new >>> examples. Because it's REALLY SIMPLE. Look at Cheat Sheet pdf. It's the >>> only documentation I read years ago. And that's enough. >>> 3. No releases. Because it's PERFECT. It's minimal stateless framework for >>> developers who needs minimal stateless framework. >>> >>> From the other side. >>> It's really no difference for me, for example, is the project retired or >>> not. (Sorry) Because framework is perfect and just works. Next project I >>> will start I will use Click. I will not go to Apache site for newest >>> version. I will not use Wicket, for example. I already have one, that fits >>> my needs. So, I think Attic is not the place for Click. Attic is the place >>> for projects with no future. Click is the project with no further >>> development. Maybe it's different things. For the first 2-5 years. >>> >>> >>> Kind regards, >>> Mikhail Peresypkin >>> >>> Среда, 18 сентября 2013, 11:00 -07:00 от Chris Mattmann >>> <[email protected]>: >>> Dear Apache Click PMC, >>> >>> Based on your board report for September 2013, I'm >>> starting a thread here on the dev list for retirement >>> of Apache Click. >>> >>> If you have any opinions, for or against retirement, >>> please make them known. If discussion doesn't really >>> urge against retirement in the next week I'll call >>> an official [VOTE] thread with resolution to retire >>> the project to the Attic. >>> >>> Thank you for your attention to this matter. >>> >>> Cheers, >>> Chris >>> (on behalf of the Apache Board) >>> >>> >>> >> > > >
