With 6 vote in favour, 3 of them being binding, this vote is a success. I will carry over the follow up steps.
Regards, Benoit On 23/07/2021 16:03, btell...@apache.org wrote: > Hello all, > > Following a first email on the topic [1] I would like to call for a > formal vote on Apache James Postage retirement. > > [1] https://www.mail-archive.com/server-dev@james.apache.org/msg70576.html > > Rationnals: this project... > - Have no website page (not deployed) > - Have no README > - Have no formal release, but a tag named "james-2_20120613" dating > from 2012 which is quite old already... > - Their exists some alternatives both for JMETER, and Gatling > performance testing tools. > - Lack of support for recent mail protocols like IMAP and JMAP > - Hard to scale blocking architecture (from what I understood?) > - No development activity since 2013. > - 5 forks in total on github, none of them did extra developments. > - Relies on 3.0-beta5-SNAPSHOT which is quite old but also unreleased. > Proting postage to a released version would likely be already quite of a > fight... > - Affected by CVE-2021-29425 (commons-io)|| > Given the maturity of the project, the presence of alternatives, and the > absence of development, in the absence of mainteners, it could be wise > to consider retiring it. > |Voting rules: - This is a majority vote as stated in [2] for procedural > issues. - The vote starts at Friday 23rd of July 2021, 4pm UTC+7 - The > vote ends at Friday 30th of July 2021, 4pm UTC+7 [2] > https://www.apache.org/foundation/voting.html Following this retirement, > follow up steps are to be taken as described in [3] [3] > https://www.mail-archive.com/server-dev@james.apache.org/msg70585.html | - 1. > Get a formal vote on server-dev mailing list > - 2. Place a RETIRED_PROJECT file marker in the git > - 3. Add a note in the project README > - 4. Retire the ISSUE trackers (Project names POSTAGE) > - 5. Announce it on gene...@james.apache.org and announce@apache > - 6. Add a notice to the Apache website, if present > - 7. Remove releases from downloads.apache.org > - 8. Add notices on the Apache release archives (example > https://archive.apache.org/dist/ant/antidote/ > <https://archive.apache.org/dist/ant/antidote/>) > > Best regards, > > Benoit Tellier > || > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: server-dev-unsubscr...@james.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: server-dev-h...@james.apache.org > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: server-dev-unsubscr...@james.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: server-dev-h...@james.apache.org
