Le 24/04/2017 à 08:50, Pierre Smits a écrit : > I always find it sad to see an open source project reach it end of life.
Darwin wins, at the end :-) There are many projects that reach end of life, and open source projects are no different. The thing is that a project ends for 3 different reasons : - the company behind it pulls the plug (commercial projects) - the project becomes irrelevant (technical reason) - there are not anymore contributor (OSS specific) The only aspect we can address is teh third one, and it's pretty hard to deal with, because there are not that many people who have the drive, time and desire to dedicate a hell lot of private time to a project. Usually, most of the OSS projects are backed by big Cos, up to the point they reach (1) - think about OpenOffice, when IBM decided to cut the costs -. For the ASF, having a business friendly license is a big plus with respect to people being paid to work on an OSS. Ok, now, wink will move to attic, which does not mean it's dead for us. We have options : - switch to something else - keep going with the project, expecting that the parts we are using aren't too buggy - incorporate the parts we are using and maintain it Option (2) is most certainly teh best possible choice atm, then we might want to move to (1). I don't think option (3) is teh right one. My 2cts. -- Emmanuel Lecharny Symas.com directory.apache.org
