The Attic does not try to grab projects for itself, so I'm not sure that the information belongs on the Attic site.
Seems to me the information belongs upstream, before the Attic is even considered as a destination. On Fri, 16 Apr 2021 at 12:13, Bertrand Delacretaz <[email protected]> wrote: > > 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">
