On Sun, 03 Jul 2011 13:51 -0500, "William A. Rowe Jr." <wr...@rowe-clan.net> wrote: > On 6/28/2011 12:49 AM, berndf wrote: > > Hi everyone, > > > > this is a vote to retire the Bluesky podling. > > > > 3.5 years into incubation, the podling has not made progress in terms of > > becoming an Apache project. Dev is still done behind closed doors, and > > developers are changing frequently without notifications on the public > > lists. Mentors are M.I.A. Reports are often late. No Apache release was > > every made. > > > > There were multiple attempts to reboot the podling (Thanks Luciano!) > > without much success. > > > > So now I'm calling a vote to end Incubation for Bluesky. > > The vote is open at least until 2011-07-02 12:00 UTC. > > > > [] +1, retire Bluesky for the time being > > +1 > > I'm sorry that the chief advocates of this code still do not see the > actual flaws in the development methodology. I really believe that the > language barrier is a significant obstacle in discussing code on list > and part of the reason this project still isn't functioning correctly, > even though these advocates have been reminded over and over what must > happen to survive as an ASF project. > > If the advocates wish to run this project in a transparent, collaborative > and open Apache-like way, a Chinese language development discussion list > and more liberal granting of commit access for the students terms could > make a lot of sense. This need not happen at the ASF itself, but could > be replicated anywhere. > > Unfortunately, I don't believe there is any effort to run this in an > ASF-like collaborative way, so this project doesn't belong here. The > issue of creating localized development discussion lists is another > matter that could have been pursued, and may one day happen for one > project or another, but I don't think it would be very fruitful to > further force a round peg in a square hole.
Unfortunately, I concur. +1 Upayavira --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: general-unsubscr...@incubator.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: general-h...@incubator.apache.org
