Hi,
It's would be great that the user mailing lists still exist. Though I
want to make some contributions to the project recently,
but willing to respect and understand the decision made on the future of
the project.
Regards
Zhihua Deng
Sean Mackrory <mackror...@gmail.com> 于2020年10月17日周六 上午1:54写道：
> Hello,
>
> Good to hear it's been working well for you. However I think you may be in
> the same situation regardless of whether Sentry moves to the attic or not,
> as for the last few months there has been no activity on the project, and
> so far it doesn't sound like anyone will be maintaining it in the future.
> Would you be interested in contributing to & maintaining the project? Is
> there any new development you're interested in? Again, even if the project
> moves to the Attic, user mailing lists still exist, and project forks are
> allowed / linked to by the Attic project, and nothing prevents any
> commercial vendor from providing security updates, etc. on their forks.
>
> On Fri, Oct 9, 2020 at 8:11 PM 邓志华 <dengzhhu...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > Hi Sean,
> >
> > We are now actively using the Apache Sentry in our Hive/SparkSQL. The
> > project has provided
> > a stable and precise control of privileges for nearly 2 years. We hope
> the
> > project to continue to
> > provide such a good authorization service, thank you!
> >
> > Regards
> > Zhihua Deng
> >
> >
> > Sean Mackrory <mackror...@gmail.com> 于2020年10月10日周六 上午12:47写道：
> >
> > > Hi all,
> > >
> > > On June 5th I sent an email soliciting anyone in the community who was
> > > interested in being more involved in the project to make themselves
> > > known, as they are needed by the community. I didn't see a response
> from
> > > anyone. As you can see in the minutes of the ASF board meetings,
> there's
> > > been a significant decrease in community activity:
> > > https://whimsy.apache.org/board/minutes/Sentry.html. In fact there is
> > > virtually none at the moment. It may be time to move the project to the
> > > Apache Attic: https://attic.apache.org/. It's worth noting that, as
> > others
> > > before me have said, this isn't a bad thing and it isn't a final thing
> > > either. If there is renewed interest in the future, the Apache Attic
> > > leadership is supportive of linking to active forks, and there is a
> > process
> > > to revive the project to its current status. This is often a natural
> part
> > > of a project's lifecycle.
> > >
> > > If there is a desire for the project to continue, or if you are
> actively
> > > using or working on things related to Apache Sentry, please speak up! 3
> > > active PMC members are required for the project to continue, and I'm
> more
> > > than happy to be one of those 3 active PMC members to help oversee
> > > the community. We would welcome new contributors too. However I'm no
> > longer
> > > in a position to actively develop the project myself, and that seems to
> > be
> > > true generally. I personally think it's best for everyone if the
> project
> > > moves to the Attic.
> > >
> > > Unless there are objections, I'll start a thread on the public dev list
> > > soon for PMC members to vote on a move to the Apache Attic.
> > >
> >
>
