Just making a wild guess as to the motivations behind this sudden move, but I thought I should mention that the ASF owns all project trademarks on behalf of our communities and the users they serve. In general, this policy should be assumed to continue even if a project is put into the Attic, both because that's what our users would expect, and because the ASF is always hopeful we can attract community back to our dormant projects.
On 2022/10/20 12:38:38 Rich Bowen wrote: > On 2022/10/17 17:05:56 Ed Espino wrote: ... > Imagine my surprise, then, to discover that not only are you an engineering > manager at VMWare, but that *every single +1 vote* in the vote thread came > from a VMWare employee, and the one dissent came from someone who is not a > VMWare employee. This strikes me as more than simply a coincidence. > > I will also note that your vote tally is not valid, since several of those > voting on that thread - yourself, Himanshu, Venkatesh - are not PMC members, > and thus those votes don't count. > > Whether this project is ready for retirement is really a separate issue, but > this is some seriously irregular stuff going on, and I request that you have > an actual discussion on your user list about your intentions, rather than > trying to rush something through the week before a board meeting without any > notification whatsoever of your user community. And I ask that the PMC chair > speak up, here, and explain the complete contradiction between the board > report, and this motion to retire. Relatedly, I see there has been plenty of code activity on the project, along with a new release just a few months ago. It's unusual for a project to suddenly decide to go into the Attic when there's been recent activity. Similarly, there's typically an open call to discuss a lack of activity and project interest before even starting an Attic vote. And it's highly unusual to have a non-committer who hasn't been active in the project for almost 5 years to show up and ask to close the project down. It's not your place to ask to close the project Ed, it's the place of any of the existing committers here who might want to continue working on it. -- - Shane Curcuru ASF Member
