Retiring a project is specific to retiring a community around the project, not necessarily the tech. The source code will still be available publicly [1]. Open source projects need a healthy community to survive. At this point, I do not think that Heron has hardly any community left.
[1]. https://incubator.apache.org/guides/retirement.html On Thu, Jan 5, 2023 at 10:59 AM Ron Wilcom <[email protected]> wrote: > *-1 [X ] Do not retire Heron from the Incubator* > > What does it even mean to 'retire from the incubator'?? Why isn't this > project handed up to Apache open source by now? I assume the libraries/etc > will still be available if its "retired"?? Projects still use Heron - I'm > fine if no more updates but the libraries should remain available. > > Ron W > > > On 2023-01-05 11:50, Josh Fischer wrote: > > I think it's time to retire Heron from the incubator. Activity has been > close to non-existent on the mailing list. Also [1] after sending out a > [DISCUSS] email on the topic, I received zero replies. > > The vote is by lazy consensus and runs for 72 hours. > > +1 [ ] Retire Heron from the Incubator > -1 [ ] Do not retire Heron from the Incubator > > Here is my vote: > +1 [x] Retire Heron from the Incubator > > Josh > > 1. https://lists.apache.org/thread/lxm0ko3bx0y0xzblcnf2wfkw5lk3m00f > >
