(Please accept my apologies for missing the board report last month)
The Attic is currently experiencing a lack of volunteer time. We have
twoprojects in the pipeline (stdcxx and ESME) who’s archival process looksstuck
– and actually even never started for stdcxx. I guess it’s timefor the Attic
PMC to do an open enrollment and see if we can secure morehelping hands.
On a somewhat unrelated note, I think the board should actively be awareof the
following tidbits, which don’t apply directly to the Attic but maywell have
impact one way or another:
1. Two projects (XMLBeans and DDLUtils) have theoretically moved to theAttic.
However, both archival processes have been stopped as the communitydecided to
try and revive them. Work hasn't been started on the Attic side,waiting to see
what happens. XML beans is currently beginning an incubationprocess.
2. Axis is expected to start moving inactive projects to the Attic. Noconcrete
follow-up yet as of today and we hope that when they do, theycome with
volunteers ready to help out.
3. A long thread on [email protected] and board@ happened in September,moving
quickly from retirement of Click into a general discussion on creatinga new
category of "finished" projects with no real community but still
notattic-worthy. I assume there is no action for the Attic at this point
intime, but the thread may well be revived in the near future.
-- Gianugo Rabellino
