Hi Riyafa,
As you have seen, there were no replies to this thread for 2.5 months.
It does seem that there is not enough interest to make the project
viable at this point in time.
However,
(a) the VOTE on moving the project to the attic could show a different
result and
(b) the software does not disappear when the project is moved to the
Attic - the project could be forked outside of the ASF or revived within
the ASF (this happened e.g. for XML Beans [5]).
I will start the VOTE today.
Till
[5] https://attic.apache.org/projects/xmlbeans.html
On 15 Dec 2019, at 4:23, Riyafa Abdul Hameed wrote:
Hi,
I just noticed this mail and would very much regret to see VXQuery
being
moved to attic. Am I mistaken in thinking that by moving this project
to
attic that we are saying that the project has reached its end of life?
I
think there would be much use cases where VXQuery can be useful in.
Could
it be that the project lacks sufficient publicity among software
developers? Is there a way we can change it if possible?
Thanks,
Riyafa
On Mon, 30 Sep 2019 at 09:28, Till Westmann <[email protected]> wrote:
Hi VXQuery Developers,
Apache VXQuery has not seen a lot of activity recently. The last
release
was in
May of 2016 [1], the last commit in July of 2018 [2], and the last
message on
the dev list was in January of this year [3].
It also seems that there are no active committers anymore and that
the
project
is thus a candidate for the Apache Attic [4].
Before starting a vote on the dissolution of the PMC and moving the
project to
the Attic I’d like to start a discussion here to find out
a) if there still is interest among the 30+ subscribers of this list
helping to
maintain Apache VXQuery and
b) if there are ideas that could make VXQuery more interesting again.
Thank you for your contributions,
Till
[1] https://reporter.apache.org/wizard/statistics?vxquery
[2]
https://github.com/apache/vxquery/commit/5d1175d2cb04a54ba751295f2ac67daec38bf723
[3]
https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/32bdfd59fd827971c91f78ee6015c90ef3a12624ba54f83037635d0a@%3Cdev.vxquery.apache.org%3E
[4] https://attic.apache.org
