Justin and mentors of Omid and Tephra, As Justin noted in his emails to these podlings this month both are very low activity, struggling to even file their reports, and appear to be candidates for retirement.
The situation here is somewhat special because Phoenix uses one or both of these technologies (they are both transaction managers on top of HBase), so they may have an interest in their continued survival. Tephra briefly discussed this last June[1], though nothing came of it. My conclusion is there is not enough momentum left for these podlings to vote themselves into Phoenix without an external push. So before we push them into retirement I believe we should involve the Phoenix PMC and see if they want to adopt either or both of these, with the knowledge that they will likely be getting minimal contributions from current members of those projects going forward. If others are ok with this I can contact the Phoenix PMC and see if they wish to take any action on this. Alan. 1. https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/87ace080ef8a967b238781979a8d9a0cb9607ac4a195d5937756ec66@%3Cdev.tephra.apache.org%3E
