I, sadly, agree that it is time to move this project to the Attic. While I hoped to work on this as a side project, I have not been able to carve out time for it. While I do think this project has a lot of potential, without some type of sponsorship in time and resources I don't see it moving forward. Thank you Roy for stepping up as the chair as well as the rest of the River team for contributing to this project over the years. It has been great watching the discussions in these threads.
On a personal note, seeing this project move into the Attic while sad, it will hopefully be cathartic. My father, Peter C. Marks, was one of the original developers at Sun who worked on Jini. I remember him being very excited about the potential for the technology and he enjoyed demoing it. I even remember accompanying him to Amsterdam to demo it at a conference when I was younger. I have some of the original Jini books sitting in my office right now that have been signed by some of the original team members. I had hoped to see the project keep going, maybe with it moving into the Attic River can move forward in a different way. On Mon, Feb 7, 2022 at 6:41 PM Roy T. Fielding <field...@gbiv.com> wrote: > Hello everyone, > > It's that time of year when I try to figure out what I am doing and > what I am not, and try to cut back on the stuff that seems unlikely > to succeed. I suspect the same is true of others. > > I had hoped that more new people at River would result in more activity, > but that hasn't occurred over the past 9 months and doesn't seem likely > in the future. Aside from ASF echoes and Infra-driven website replacement, > there has been nothing to report about River the entire time that I have > been the chair pro tem, and there hasn't been any chatter by users either. > > Please feel free to let me know if I am missing something. > > If not, I'd like us to accept the reality of this situation and move the > River project to the Attic. The code will still be available there, and > folks are welcome to copy it under the license, move it to Github, or > otherwise seek to re-mold it into a collaborative project wherever is > most convenient for them. > > Cheers, > > ....Roy > > -- Jeremy R. Easton-Marks "être fort pour être utile"
