unsubscribe On Mon, May 28, 2018 at 10:48 AM, Stefan Bodewig <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi all > > it is pretty difficult to write a message like this. I've been one of > Lucene.Net's mentors during Apache incubation and even though I never > contributed anything significant (at least code-wise) I really care for > the project and its community. > > For more than a year Shad has been the only committer who actually > committed to the code base but despite his herculean effort we haven't > been able to attract new contributors. > > Of the project management committee most people seem to be absent by now > and the project has rightfully raised concerns by the board [1][2] > > There really are only two options. > > * we create a credible plan how to get Lucene.Net back into a healthy > state with multiple contributors and a more active PMC and execute on > it > > * we start the process of sending the project to the Apache Attic > http://attic.apache.org/ (which is not a one-way road, projects ca be > re-surrected if a new community emerges). > > We probably should start with trying the first option. We have tried to > find new contributors in the past but haven't been succeful, let's give > it one more try. > > What we need are people who are willing to contribute for more than a > single pull request or two and who are willing to become members of the > developer community here at Apache. If you think this description fits > you, please raise your hand :-) > > Stefan > > [1] https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/c44ef94020271b3823fe356a255d69 > 3a76287c1214743dfc074621de@%3Cdev.lucenenet.apache.org%3E > [2] https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/70a34c2cd3298afe02827c219e2dc2 > b66ae594aabcbaa33265301a44@%3Cdev.lucenenet.apache.org%3E >
