Sorry, I've been busy with work, and everything else has fallen off of my plate.
I don't have time to be involved for the foreseeable future. Walter On Sun, Feb 26, 2017 at 9:33 PM, Josh Elser <[email protected]> wrote: > Just wanted to clarify: the Attic is not the right phrasing for podlings. > Pirk would just retire from incubation. The following doc sums this up. > > https://incubator.apache.org/guides/retirement.html > > Ellison Anne, I appreciate your candor in this situation. I am also rather > surprised at the radio silence from those who were previously active in > Pirk. Tracy, Christopher, Walter, and Jacob: comments or opinions? > > I would also be curious in hearing what Suneel and Tim have to say (with > the previous DISCUSS in mind). > > > Ellison Anne Williams wrote: > >> Hi Guys, >> >> As per the recent discussion on the mailing list, it seems that it may be >> best to put Pirk in the attic for a while. For varying reasons, the >> previous active contributors don't seem to be able to devote serious >> cycles >> to Pirk right now and the Pirk community has not been growing. I have >> drafted the podling report below as such - please let me know if think >> otherwise. The podling report is due on Wednesday, March 1. >> >> Thanks- >> >> Ellison Anne >> >> PirkPirk is a framework for scalable Private Information Retrieval >> (PIR).Pirk has been incubating since 2016-06-17. The initial code for >> Pirk wasgranted on 2016-07-11.Three most important issues to address >> in the move towards graduation: 1. Grow the community to establish >> diversity of background and expertise. 2. Establish a formal release >> process and schedule, allowing for dependable release cycles in a >> manner consistent with the Apache development process. 3. Add to >> and improve the Pirk user documentation and examples both on the >> website and in the codebaseAny issues that the Incubator PMC (IPMC) or >> ASF Board wish/need to beaware of? Yes. The Pirk community >> participation and growth has stalled over the last few months. >> Recently, there has been discussion on the mailing list about retiring >> Pirk (putting it in the attic) for right now.How has the community >> developed since the last report? The Pirk community has not developed >> since the last report - there have been no new contributors or >> committers added.How has the project developed since the last report? >> The Pirk project has stalled - the existing community has not been >> active nor has the community grown.Date of last release: October 9, >> 2016When were the last committers or PMC members elected? Pirk >> elected two new committers (Tim Ellison and Suneel Marthi, both >> mentors) on August 18, 2016. >> >>
