Let's push that conversation for October. There is activity for now and no real issue to rush it.
A lot of people are going in and out for summer time. Le dim. 17 juil. 2022, 08:18, Francois Papon <francois.pa...@openobject.fr> a écrit : > +1 for retiring the main project and finding hosts for sub projects. > > regards, > > François > > On 11/07/2022 18:52, Raymond Augé wrote: > > 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 > > >
