Hi all,
Apache Livy is a successful project that has met many of its initial design
goals to provide interactive access to spark jobs. It appears to be widely used
by many organizations and users. However, project development has been inactive
due to lack of demand for new features and relative stability of the code base.
At this point there are 2 options for the project given its incubating status
1. Graduate - The project has been following the Apache way in its release
process and community. It can graduate as long as there are 3 pmc willing to
continue to manage the project. Also, volunteers are needed to complete the
graduation checklist and help move the project through the graduation process.
* https://incubator.apache.org/guides/graduation.html
2. Retire - The project will be retired and no longer be supported by the
ASF development process. Its website will be deleted and generally new releases
would not be available. The biggest drawback of this for the user community is
that security patches like the recent CVE release in Feb 21 will not be made
available. That can be a blocker for many organizations.
* https://incubator.apache.org/guides/retirement.html
What does the community think about this situation and how to proceed? Should
we graduate or retire?
When supporting graduation, please indicate willingness to drive the graduation
process and subsequently participate in the project pmc.
Bikas
