Well put, Joe. (Btw, I was that mentor mentioned previously)
While I'm not always eyes-on with low latency, I do try to be eyes-on eventually. The concerns that Joe has raised saved me the trouble of raising this concern myself in the near future. The issue with this happening to an early-life podling is that there is no one else keep things going. When people move on, the reality is retirement at the ASF. This isn't meant to be a threat or similar, just a hard truth. If there's anything I've come to appreciate more as of late, it's that software truly is the easy part of an ASF project. Cultivating growth in a way that attracts and encourages new participation is extremely difficult and time consuming. Couple this with the fact that software itself is still very difficult leads to people being stretched thin (completely ignoring personal and professional happenings) Again, this isn't meant to be a threat, just a gentle of a push that this is a big warning sign from (some of) your mentors. We're all here to help you succeed, but it's very tough for us to do that when there's only silence. - Josh On Feb 4, 2017 09:10, "Joe Witt" <[email protected]> wrote: > Team, > > We appear to have lost momentum. The last substantive email I see in > the mailing lists is in Dec 2016 from a contributor attempting to > contribute a PR but no reply. The last significant code commit into > the repo was early Nov 2016 and really trailed off in Oct 2016. > > It will be important to either work to rebuild momentum or consider > retirement as outlined here [1]. In our last report it was noted by > one mentor that activity has dropped off. With our incubator report > due next month we should aim to have a more definitive path in play. > > [1] http://incubator.apache.org/guides/retirement.html > > Thanks > Joe >
