Moving to attic is making project read only https://attic.apache.org/ https://attic.apache.org/projects/aurora.html
czw., 18 lut 2021, 11:56 użytkownik Charles-François Natali < cf.nat...@gmail.com> napisał: > I'm not familiar with the attic but would it still allow to actually > develop, make commits to the repository etc? > > > On Thu, 18 Feb 2021, 08:27 Benjamin Bannier, <bbann...@apache.org> wrote: > > > Hi Vinod, > > > > > I would like to start a discussion around the future of the Mesos > > project. > > > > > > As you are probably aware, the number of active committers and > > contributors > > > to the project have declined significantly over time. As of today, > > there's > > > no active development of any features or a public release planned. On > the > > > flip side, I do know there are a few companies who are still actively > > using > > > Mesos. > > > > Thanks for starting this discussion Vinod. Looking at Slack, mailing > > lists, JIRA and reviewboard/github the project has wound down a lot in > > the last 12+ months. > > > > > Given that, we need to assess if there's interest in the community to > > keep > > > this project moving forward. Specifically, we need some active > committers > > > and PMC members who are going to manage the project. Ideally, these > would > > > be people who are using Mesos in some capacity and can make code > > > contributions. > > > > While I have seen a few non-committer folks contribute patches in the > > last months, I feel it might be too late to bootstrap an active > > community at this point. > > > > Apache Mesos is still mentioned prominently in the docs of a number of > > other projects which gives off the impression of an active and > > maintained project. In reality almost nobody is working on issues or > > available to help users, and basing a new project on Apache Mesos these > > days is probably not a good idea. I honestly do not see that to change > > should new people step up and IMO the most honest way forward would be > > to move the project to the attic to clearly communicate that the project > > has moved into another phase; this wouldn't preclude folks from using or > > further developing Apache Mesos, but would give a clear signal to users. > > > > > If there is no active interest, we will likely need to figure out steps > > for > > > retiring the project. > > > > > > *Call for action: If you are interested in becoming a committer/PMC > > member > > > (including PMC chair) and actively maintain the project, please reply > to > > > this email.* > > > > Like I wrote above, I would be in favor of a vote to move Apache Mesos > > to the attic. > > > > > > Cheers, > > > > Benjamin > > >
