-1, still see some great value in this project, Gary’s point is valid.

On Fri, Oct 2, 2020 at 3:42 PM Gary Wong <[email protected]> wrote:

> Thank Craig for this vote call.
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> My vote is -1, my 2 cents, because the JDK 9 and later have deprecated the
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> unsafe feature, that make the core functionalities hardly upgradable. but
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> the JDK14 introduced a hybrid memory supporting feature recently, the new
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> incubator feature looks provided the promising infrastructure for durable
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> object model to migrate upon. I think it could be possible to bring dev.
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> together.
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> Thanks.
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> Gary
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> On Fri, Oct 2, 2020, 3:10 PM Craig Russell <[email protected]> wrote:
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> > Dear members of the Mnemonic Community,
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> >
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> > tl;dr please reply to this message.
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> >
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> > [ ] +1 retire the Mnemonic project
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> > [ ] -1 do not retire the Mnemonic project because...
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> >
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> > I am getting in touch with the Mnemonic community members in regard to
> the
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> > health of the project.
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> >
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> > There appears to be some work being done but almost all of the activity
> in
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> > the last several months is from just one person. The most recent board
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> > report states that one PMC member left in August 2020 but I was unable to
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> > find any evidence of this event.
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> >
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> > As projects mature, they will naturally reach a point where activity
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> > reduces to a level such that the project is no longer sustainable. At
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> > Apache, projects reach this stage when there are not at least 3 active
> PMC
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> > members providing oversight. Projects that reach this stage are usually
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> > placed in the Attic [1] or absorbed by another Apache project willing to
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> > manage its releases.
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> >
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> > On the other hand, if your project has very low activity for good reasons
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> > and has at least three active PMC members willing to perform oversight,
> it
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> > can remain an Apache project so long as the Board is properly informed
> and
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> > the project remains open and welcoming to new contributors.
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> >
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> > There was a ROLL CALL last month to which only one PMC member responded.
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> >
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> > At this time, I am requesting a formal VOTE of the Apache Mnemonic
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> > community. If you feel that this project is still viable, and able to
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> > reconstitute an active PMC with at least three members, please respond to
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> > this message accordingly. If you are a member of the PMC but have moved
> on
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> > or are no longer able to participate, please tell us so that the
> project's
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> > status is clear. Failure to respond will indicate a lack of interest in
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> > oversight.
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> >
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> > Please don't take this message as a criticism of the project or its
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> > current chair. This is an expected event in the timeline of many open
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> > source projects, and sometimes results in a renewed interest from the
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> > development community.
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> >
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> > Best regards,
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> >
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> > Craig
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> > Director, The Apache Software Foundation
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> > [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>
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> >
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> > [1] https://attic.apache.org/ <https://attic.apache.org/>
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> >
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> >
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> >
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