IIUC, Attic is not intended for projects which still have active users and thus might be in need of fixing bugs.
Key items about moving project to Attic: > It is not intended to: > - Rebuild community > - Make bugfixes > - Make releases >Projects whose PMC are unable to muster 3 votes for a release, who have no >active committers or are unable to fulfill their reporting duties to the board >are all good candidates for the Attic. As a D2iQ employee, I can say that if we find a bug critical for our customers, we will be interested in fixing that. Should the project be moved into Attic, the fix will be present only in forks (which might mean our internal forks). I could imagine that other entities and people using Mesos are in a similar position with regards to bugfixes. If this is true, then moving the project to Attic in the near future is not a proper solution to the issue of insufficient bandwidth of the active PMC members/chair. --- A long-term future of the project is a different story, which, in my personal view, will "end" either in moving the project into Attic or in shifting the project direction from what it used to be in the recent few years to something substantially different. IMO, this requires a _separate_ discussion. Damien's questions sound like a good starting point for that discussion, I'll try to answer them from my committer/PMC member perspective when I have enough time. On Thu, 18 Feb 2021 at 12:49, Charles-François Natali <cf.nat...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Thanks Tomek, that's what I suspected. > It would therefore make it much more difficult for anyone to carry on since > it would effectively have to be a fork, etc. > I think it'd be a bit of a shame, but I understand Benjamin's point. > I hope it can be avoided. > > > Cheers, > > > > On Thu, 18 Feb 2021, 11:02 Tomek Janiszewski, <jani...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> 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 >>> >
