RE: [RESULT] [VOTE] Move geode to the attic
Thank you. Thanks also for the note that we could start over. Though I think that open source community shall look to satisfy use cases for distributed "hash map on steroids" with Apache Kafka or gRPC and other open source projects. Geode shall go back to commercial Gemfire again. Like China and India Railways (amazing)... and international banks... shall use Gemfire. Smaller business use other open source products. Unless Geode / Gemfire was priced on a like AWS pay-as-you-go model. I guess thats where this is all going. Thanks for open sourcing in the first place. It was a lot of fun to have to work really hard to make it work in FX broking. Cheers... -Original Message- From: Dan Smith Sent: 03 November 2022 22:22 To: u...@geode.apache.org; dev@geode.apache.org Subject: Re: [RESULT] [VOTE] Move geode to the attic For the one contributor who offered to help with the project, thanks Rupert! However, it didn't seem to me like we had raised enough support at this point to continue having a working PMC even with your help. We do appreciate the offer. I think if you are serious about taking over the project, there are options to raise a community and reboot the project within the apache foundation, so this doesn't have to be the end of the line. -Dan From: Dan Smith Sent: Thursday, November 3, 2022 3:15 PM To: u...@geode.apache.org ; dev@geode.apache.org Subject: [RESULT] [VOTE] Move geode to the attic This vote is now closed, thanks to everyone who voted. The vote has passed with 4 binding PMC members voting to move the project to the attic. I think the next step is that I will add an item to the agenda for the next Apache board meeting for the board to consider. I'll also put the details in our board report and share out a draft. Results: Binding PMC members -- +1 - Xiaojian, Anthony, Mark, Dan Committers and Users - +1 - Ernie, Donal, Ali, Ajay -1 - Rupert, Pieter
[DRAFT] Geode Board Report for November 9th
In addition to the resolution to terminate the geode project, I think we should file a board report for this quarter with some more details. Here is a draft, let me know what you think. ## Description: The mission of Apache Geode is the creation and maintenance of software related to a data management platform that provides real-time, consistent access to data-intensive applications throughout widely distributed cloud architectures. ## Issues: The Geode project has voted to enter the attic, and there is a corresponding board resolution on the agenda. The two organizations sponsoring contributors have disengaged from the community, leaving the project without a critical mass to carry on. We tried to recruit some additional contributors and PMC members, but it looks like the PMC will not be able to muster a quorum of 3 members going forward. All but one of the existing PMC members are either inactive or will be leaving the project shortly. ## Membership Data: Apache Geode was founded 2016-11-15 (6 years ago) There are currently 116 committers and 35 PMC members in this project. The Committer-to-PMC ratio is roughly 8:3. Community changes, past quarter: - No new PMC members. Last addition was Alexander Murmann on 2020-03-26. - Jakov Varenina was added as committer on 2022-10-10 - 19 PMC members have left since last quarter ## Project Activity: 1.15.1 was released on 2022-10-10. There have been no commits since October 10th. ## Community Health: With the exit of the two corporate sponsors there do not seem to be many active members left. We attempted to nominate three new PMC members but they declined. There was an offer to help with the project from one user in response to the attic vote, but even adding that user to the PMC would not have reached quorum for the project.
Re: [DRAFT] Geode Board Report for November 9th
Do you want to add the results of the PMC roll call? > On Nov 4, 2022, at 11:42 AM, Dan Smith wrote: > > !! External Email > > In addition to the resolution to terminate the geode project, I think we > should file a board report for this quarter with some more details. Here is a > draft, let me know what you think. > > ## Description: > The mission of Apache Geode is the creation and maintenance of software > related > to a data management platform that provides real-time, consistent access to > data-intensive applications throughout widely distributed cloud architectures. > > ## Issues: > The Geode project has voted to enter the attic, and there is a corresponding > board resolution on the agenda. > > The two organizations sponsoring contributors have disengaged from the > community, leaving the project without a critical mass to carry on. We tried > to recruit some additional contributors and PMC members, but it looks like the > PMC will not be able to muster a quorum of 3 members going forward. All but > one of the existing PMC members are either inactive or will be leaving the > project shortly. > > ## Membership Data: > Apache Geode was founded 2016-11-15 (6 years ago) > There are currently 116 committers and 35 PMC members in this project. > The Committer-to-PMC ratio is roughly 8:3. > > Community changes, past quarter: > - No new PMC members. Last addition was Alexander Murmann on 2020-03-26. > - Jakov Varenina was added as committer on 2022-10-10 > - 19 PMC members have left since last quarter > > ## Project Activity: > 1.15.1 was released on 2022-10-10. > > There have been no commits since October 10th. > > ## Community Health: > With the exit of the two corporate sponsors there do not seem to be many > active members left. We attempted to nominate three new PMC members but they > declined. There was an offer to help with the project from one user in > response to the attic vote, but even adding that user to the PMC would not > have reached quorum for the project. > > !! External Email: This email originated from outside of the organization. Do > not click links or open attachments unless you recognize the sender.
Re: [DRAFT] Geode Board Report for November 9th
Let’s put this statement in context. It’s not _that_ unusual for some projects to have no commits for a month. But is it is very indicative of the state of the Geode community given its history of being one of the more active ASF projects. As noted in the last board report, project activity declined precipitously starting early this summer and is now pretty much stopped altogether. https://medium.com/indeed-engineering/whats-up-asf-using-imhotep-to-understand-project-activity-cdac94e1a68b https://github.com/apache/geode/graphs/commit-activity Anthony On Nov 4, 2022, at 11:42 AM, Dan Smith mailto:dasm...@vmware.com.INVALID>> wrote: There have been no commits since October 10th.
