Daniel F. Savarese schrieb: > In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, "Andrew C. Oliver" writes: > >> lists. (If you disagree look at the list archive for >> each over the last 6 months and see if you REALLY disagree in more than >> THEORY). >> > > At least for oro, some Linux distributions continue to ship it as part of > their core packages. For example, Fedora Core 4, 5, and 6 all included > it and 7 will include it as well. That's millions of real installations. > It would be negligent to give the impression that Apache will no longer > support the software should maintenance requests be made when there are > in fact committers dedicated to doing the work. No, there haven't been > any bug reports for oro for years and I don't know why it ships with > Linux distributions, but it does and until it doesn't, it's not a > "dead" project. There's no need for project-specific mailing lists > anymore, but I'm -1 on putting up a "closed" page for any project > with a user base that continues to require support and for which we > are able to provide support. Users do need to be directed somewhere > for support and I don't care if that's general@ or some other list > as long as there's an avenue for providing that support.
I strogly agree with Daniel. Even if there are no ongoing activities on
a project, we should never, NEVER call it "dead" or give it any other
attributation with a negative tone. "Dormant" also has negative
implications. "Mature" would be fine.
Best regards
Rainer Klute
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