Agreed that folks have been pretty busy lately and activity has declined. I want to think through the options and issues that Joe and Josh have raised and will come back with my thoughts early next week.
On Sat, Feb 4, 2017 at 2:30 PM, Josh Elser <[email protected]> wrote: > 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 > > >
