On Wed, Jul 9, 2014 at 12:23 AM, Roman Shaposhnik <r...@apache.org> wrote: > Again, why would code lose users? Remember we're talking > about a situation of no releases here. Presumably those > users who are comfortable building from the repo would > just keep doing so. And since there was no release, > what else is out there for us to worry about?
IIRC there may be implications for licensing if someone is literally pulling code out of trunk and distributing it. Without a release, the PMC hasn't represented that the artifact is kosher. For release tags, this is true. >> and remove all references to apache in the >> project and doc and website etc etc. All tons of work which being a small >> project they'd probably never get done so it would likely be the death of >> the project. > > I see no reason to do any of that for the project that's > in the attic. This seems consistent. Either there's development and new artifacts in its life after Apache (requiring some work), or there's no development and the existing artifacts are untouched. Besides: if development restarts, reactivating the project from the attic should not be difficult. This shouldn't create problems in practice. >> And for what purpose? To quote one of them from their dev list a couple of >> months ago: "Going to the attic would suck. It's a solid code base, it's >> just one of those things that doesn't necessarily need to change much.". >> The main people in Droids we know and trust, they are ASF members and PMC >> chairs. We in the Incubator should be helping them graduate not looking for >> ways to retire the project. > > The quote feels a little bit misinformed about the attic/ASF > policies. +1 I don't see how the contributors' status has anything to do with the project's viability. Are there aspects about the attic that we haven't considered? Why would that "suck"? -C --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: general-unsubscr...@incubator.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: general-h...@incubator.apache.org
