On Wed, Jun 18, 2014 at 11:46 PM, Alexander Broekhuis <a.broekh...@gmail.com > wrote:
> as the retirement criteria would IMO be too harsh for Celix when we > started. > In a similar vein, Drill currently has about the same number of commits and mail messages as Hive does, but hasn't had a release in a while. They have resolved >300 significant JIRA in the last 30 days alone. I don't know what bonafide change in the community is, but one could argue that just adding committers isn't that. A release is coming there, but I think that the criteria shouldn't need special exceptional arguments. The commit rate and JIRA resolution rates are good distinctive marks that avoid this.