Hi, I think we have to be honest with ourselves.
While we had a good go at Taverna in the Apache Incubator, and lots of great effort over the years, we seem to have ground to a standstill. It looks now almost impossible that we will graduate from the incubator and continue to thrive as a top-level Apache project. I am as guilty as everyone - emails missed, builds not updated, releases not completed. The tasks were not large, but they still demand continued volunteer effort, which sadly we now seem to have not got anymore. I think I speak for all of you when I am grateful for all the time and effort everyone has committed since we moved to Apache Software Foundation in 2014. It is therefore with sadness that I call this vote on retiring Taverna from the Apache Incubator. I don't think there is any shame if we come to this conclusion, this project started 2003-02-24 and the world of bioinformatics and web services has changed significantly since then. For more information about what retirement means, see https://incubator.apache.org/guides/retirement.html In terms of codebase my suggestion is that we move the git repositories to http://github.com/taverna/ with a clear README indication that they are no longer maintained. I think we should invite anyone on this list to join that GitHub organization for a passive curator role, or to delegate if someone later wants to reboot the activity. See also previous discussion from 2019-09: https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/f9db87bf752c1b77773f2f0ac5be9afd34d29a7cff76d66728a0f713%40%3Cdev.taverna.apache.org%3E PLEASE INDICATE YOUR VOTE: [ ] +1 Retire Taverna [ ] 0 Undecided [ ] -1 Do not retire Taverna The vote is open for at least 72 hours for anyone on this list, with a lazy consensus. -- Stian Soiland-Reyes https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9842-9718
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