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
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