Hm, how do you consider a project "dormant"? Is Velocity "dormant"?
What I want to avoid is, that mature projects which are exactly where the committers want them to have and the "one release a year, just bug fixes" are put in the same bucket as projects that might be dormant or dead. Once a project is in that state, FUD is inevitable. We should make the effort to distinguish between stable projects/code and dormant/dead code. Best regards Henning On Sat, 2006-07-29 at 13:25 -0400, Henri Yandell wrote: > > On Sat, 29 Jul 2006, Oliver Zeigermann wrote: > > > Hi, folks! > > > > Recently, worries about the state of the Slide project came up in > > private lists. It seems to be more or less unsupported and no > > community seems to exist any more. Most posts to the lists remain > > unanswered. > > > > Additionally, I have heard voices who consider Slide redundant now > > that Jackrabbit is a TLP. > > > > While this is not the thread to find out what has happened to the > > Slide project, we should think about what to do about it. > > > > If there is no one who feels responsible for the project or is willing > > to take responsibility we might put it into a dormant/unmaintained > > mode. This might give possible new users a warning. > > If new people came up who are ready to take the responsibility we > > might revive it. > > > > Additions? Opinions? Other voices? Am I completely wrong? > > Looking at mail-archives; > > Emails on the user list are 10% of what they were at the lists peak about > 20 months ago. 40 odd so far this month, a dozen threads. > > Emails on the dev list are down to around 5% of what they were at its peak > (20 months ago too). 30 emails this month. 4 threads from contributors, > not committers and a bunch of automated wiki/issues/commit ones. > > How about creating a Dormant section on the LHS under Subprojects and > kicking off a vote to put ORO, Regexp, Slide, Alexandria (I know, it's > dead but simpler to put under Dormant for the moment), and ECS into it? > > The Incubator are going to be putting Agila into dormancy I think - so we > can simply delete that link. > > Hen > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > -- Dipl.-Inf. (Univ.) Henning P. Schmiedehausen INTERMETA GmbH [EMAIL PROTECTED] +49 9131 50 654 0 http://www.intermeta.de/ RedHat Certified Engineer -- Jakarta Turbine Development Linux, Java, perl, Solaris -- Consulting, Training, Engineering Social behaviour: Bavarians can be extremely egalitarian and folksy. -- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bavaria Most Franconians do not like to be called Bavarians. -- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Franconia --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]