- current contrib/deprecated state maintained in [1] - status explanations pages missing e.g. [2]
- we currently have not process when a module should be marked as deprecated - here is a proposal: - export statistics on module usage (downloads) from maven central statistics - mark modules as deprecated that have both low usage and no committers willing to actively maintain it - there is no "attic" any more, so labeling the module as deprecated is equivalent to attic - this deprecation check should be done roughly once a year for all non-deprecated modules - the "contrib" flag is difficult to understand what it should mean - we propose to rename it - it should be renamed to "experimental" - modules labeled as experimental (or currently "contrib") must never be included in the sling starter - (contrib modules currently includes in starter have to be removed or "un-contribbed") - the meaning of "experimental" is: not indented for production use, use on your own risk, probably not well maintained - our sling download page [3] should reflect the deprecated or contrib status of the modules liste - this page is the one page users detect most easily, and they should know when the module is not part of the "core" stefan [1] https://github.com/apache/sling-aggregator/blob/master/Sling-Repos.csv [2] https://github.com/apache/sling-aggregator/blob/master/docs/status/contrib.md [3] http://sling.apache.org/downloads.cgi
