Mea culpa, so let's write it for october on my side ;) 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 19:03, Raymond Augé <raymond.a...@liferay.com> a écrit : > 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 >
