Thanks for your input. If there are contributions you would like to make, I would suggest making them very soon, because ultimately this is a question of community activity. I (and I'm sure a few other PMC members, I'm sure) would be happy to review your patches, but it sounds like there may not be anyone else who plans to take an active role in development. If there's no activity on the project, we can't really make an argument to keep the project going.
On Mon, Oct 19, 2020 at 7:04 AM 邓志华 <dengzhhu...@gmail.com> wrote: > 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. > > > > > > > > > >
