I am in favor of retirement. There just isn't any perceptible inclination to be an Apache community here. Without that, further incubation doesn't make much sense.
On Wed, Jan 25, 2017 at 8:50 AM, Chris Mattmann <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi Jia, and community, > > The basic situation we have here is: > > 1. The CMDA podling doesn’t send email to the lists. There are > 0 new threads started by the PPMC in months, and 0 communication other > than report reminders (and late reports), and questions about the podling’s > status: https://lists.apache.org/[email protected] > 2. Communication and work on CMDA are occurring, just not at Apache. > > > Regardless of the account requests (which I had a spreadsheet early on, > here, and asked the team to track where they were with submitting and the > process which > they never updated), the podling has not met the minimum bar for being an > open and transparent > community despite many threads regarding this. In addition, due to my own > limited time > for mentorship and the limited time of other mentors there was difficulty > in actively > monitoring this and overall I believe there was the hope that somehow this > would be > figured out and corrected. > > I am +1 for John, because of this, to start and continue the Retirement > discussion. > > We tried, and this isn’t a repudiation of the project by any means. It’s > simply a > recognition the experiment here at Apache didn’t work out, and it’s the > correct thing to do for both sides. > > Sincerely, > Chris > > > > > On 1/24/17, 8:55 PM, "Jia Zhang" <[email protected]> wrote: > > Dear John: > > Happy New Year! > > I believe there is some miscommunication. > > We have been waiting for permission to commit to repo for a long time, > after quite some applications. None of the members in our team have > received accounts to commit, including myself. My previous student had > permission, but he graduated. We reported. > > As a matter of fact, the CMDA team has developed project website, also > we > have set up various ways to publish our code, in github as well as > dockerhub. > > We hope mentors could give us more advice. > > Thanks a lot. > > Best regards, > Jia > > On Tue, Jan 24, 2017 at 7:01 PM, John D. Ament <[email protected]> > wrote: > > > Dear CMDA Podling, > > > > Last summer, a discussion started to retire the CMDA podling. A > vote was > > started shortly after and it was decided to give more time to see > how the > > podling grows. Unfortunately at this point, public discussions > around the > > podling have ceased. There is still no website, no releases. The > last > > commit to the repo is still November 2015. > > > > At this point, the only path forward I believe is retirement of the > > podling. > > > > John > > > > > >
