Hi Attic team, Recent discussions with ASF members indicate that not all our community members are aware of how to avoid the Attic.
How about adding the below patch to http://attic.apache.org/ to help clarify that? I also discussed this with Rich Bowen who might write a more extensive blog post on the topic, and if that happens we might just link to it from that section later. -Bertrand Index: xdocs/index.xml =================================================================== --- xdocs/index.xml (revision 1888823) +++ xdocs/index.xml (working copy) @@ -78,6 +78,23 @@ are unable to fulfill their reporting duties to the board are all good candidates for the Attic. </p> </section> +<section id="avoiding"> + <title>How to avoid moving to the Attic?</title> + <p> + As long as a project has three active PMC members and fulfills its reporting duties it can be viable from the ASF's point of view, even if its activity is very low. + </p> + <p> + Sometimes, PMC members leaving a project would result in less than three of them remaining, but community members are willing to continue + maintaining the project. In such a case the best, if possible, is to elect a few of them to the PMC to keep it viable. + </p> + <p> + If that does not happen, the ASF's Board of Directors can "reboot" a PMC by re-establishing it with a new or modified roster. As an example, + see the <a href="https://apache.org/foundation/records/minutes/2019/board_minutes_2019_02_20.txt";>Board resolution to reboot the Apache Xalan PMC</a> + in the February 2019 Board minutes. + </p> + +</section> + <section id="process">
