I am surprised to see this. I was personally planning on using MADLib myself, and this voting seems scandalous.
On Thu, 20 Oct 2022, 18:55 Shane Curcuru, <curc...@apache.org> wrote: > 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 >
