> > Qian, it might be worth having a more explicit email asking users to chime > in as this email was tailored more for contributors.
Yes, we can have such email, but I think it does not affect whether we should move Mesos to attic or not, since the most important factor is whether we have enough active committers. Quoted from https://attic.apache.org/: When should a project move to the Attic? 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. I am happy to see there are still some companies using Mesos now, but in this mail thread, so far there are just several contributors interested in contributing to Mesos and only one committer Benjamin Mahler (no guaranteed time), I think that's not enough to keep this project going, so we may have to move Mesos to attic. Regards, Qian Zhang On Tue, Mar 21, 2023 at 2:56 AM Benjamin Mahler <bmah...@apache.org> wrote: > Also if you are still a user of mesos, please chime in. > Qian, it might be worth having a more explicit email asking users to chime > in as this email was tailored more for contributors. > > Twitter is still using mesos heavily, we upgraded from a branch based off > of 1.2.x to 1.9.x in 2021, but haven't upgraded to 1.11.x yet. We do have a > lot of patches carried on our branch that have not been upstreamed. I would > like to upstream them to avoid relying on many custom patches and to > get closer to HEAD, but it will take time and quite a bit of work, and it's > not a priority at the moment. > > On the contribution side, at this point if I were to continue contributing, > it would be on a volunteer basis, and I can't guarantee having enough time > to do so. > > On Fri, Mar 17, 2023 at 9:57 PM Qian Zhang <zhq527...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > Hi all, > > > > I'd like to restart the discussion around the future of the Mesos > project. > > As you may already be aware, the Mesos community has been inactive for > the > > last few years, there were only 3 contributors last year, that's > obviously > > not enough to keep the project moving forward. I think we need at least 3 > > active committers/PMC members and some active contributors to keep the > > project alive, or we may have to move it to attic > > <https://attic.apache.org/>. > > > > Call for action: If you are the current committer/PMC member and still > > have the capacity to maintain the project, or if you are willing to > > actively contribute to the project as a contributor, please reply to this > > email, thanks! > > > > > > Regards, > > Qian Zhang > > >
