Thanks for your feedback Romain, but if you read carefully what I wrote, I exactly suggested doing the adoption process before doing any retirement.
I'm glad you agree with that part. Ray On Mon, Jul 11, 2022 at 1:00 PM Romain Manni-Bucau <rmannibu...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi Raymond, > > Guess before retiring we should find a home for all residents (Geronimo by > itself is not dead and we have several subprojects which should stay > somewhere) so -1 as of today even if I agree with most of what you said and > the high level idea behind. > > My blind guess is that we should at least await october for such a work > since it will be summer holidays then september rush but we should probably > plan to tackle that topic at that time - can be a board report point > thinking out loud. > > Hope it makes sense. > > Romain Manni-Bucau > @rmannibucau <https://twitter.com/rmannibucau> | Blog > <https://rmannibucau.metawerx.net/> | Old Blog > <http://rmannibucau.wordpress.com> | Github > <https://github.com/rmannibucau> | LinkedIn > <https://www.linkedin.com/in/rmannibucau> | Book > <https://www.packtpub.com/application-development/java-ee-8-high-performance> > > > Le lun. 11 juil. 2022 à 18:52, Raymond Augé <raymond.a...@liferay.com> a > écrit : > >> The "Geronimo" project is getting long in the tooth and has very few >> maintainers. It's been teetering on the edge of what could be considered >> active ever since I've been involved (I believe more than 5 years now.) >> >> The project has seen many parts of its portfolio go unmaintained or >> deprecated. We've seen other projects adopt parts (with this project's >> blessing [1]). I would also argue this project seems to have lost its >> identity and is now some sort of mishmash of libraries and utilities with >> barely related aspects which I don't believe is really the model for a good >> Open Source Apache project to bank a future on. >> >> And now, we really should make an effort to settle the issue of >> "Native"-themed mascotry which was raised again most recently here [2]. >> >> PROPOSAL: >> I would like to propose we attempt to find any other ASF projects that >> would be willing to take over interesting parts of the portfolio. After >> that is exhausted, if nothing significant of interest remains the project >> could simply be retired. However, if something significant does remain and >> someone speaks up about wanting to maintain it, they could initiate a new >> ASF project to house the remaining parts and have the new project adopt >> those interesting bits. >> >> Thoughts? >> >> Ray >> >> [1] https://lists.apache.org/thread/sdny91l920o2lnl58sj5wy577k39fhsz >> [2] https://lists.apache.org/thread/bd8s3knj2541275rbdnx2718h0y8qhrj >> >> -- *Raymond Augé* (@rotty3000) Senior Software Architect *Liferay, Inc.* (@Liferay) OSGi Fellow, Java Champion
