Manu, Thanks for bringing this difficult topic.
I was struggling with it myself. Here are my thoughts: Our main objectives were to build the community and gain more adoption. Although there was some considerable interest, I think we were not able to build a stable and sizable community around our project. We have identified some "technical" goals to achieve as the next steps. Without a broader community, I think we won't be able to keep a decent development activity and release pace. It doesn't look that the situation (community) would change any time soon, so - with a heavy heart - I must agree that it would be only fair to the Apache community to retire Gearpump. I am hoping we'll continue working on Gearpump in some other "formula" in the future, as it has some strengths and is cool to use and develop ;-) Regards, Karol On Sun, Sep 9, 2018 at 9:38 AM Manu Zhang <owenzhang1...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi all, > > Gearpump has been an Apache incubator since 2016-03-08. Thank you all for > help to incubate Gearpump and keep it move forward. > > The activity around Gearpump has, however, slowed down and the last release > was more than one year ago. There is no sign of a growing community, which > is a requirement to be a Apache TLP. The long period of release process has > made things even harder for such a slim community. > > I don't see a future for Gearpump within Apache so it's better off to > leave. > > What do you think ? > > Thanks, > Manu Zhang >
