I agree with people’s analysis in this thread. The project is continuing at a modest activity level, seems to have reasonable adoption and ongoing development, but there are not enough active members to form a sustainable PMC with 3 or more active members.
So, I agree that retirement from the incubator is the right decision. “Retirement” is a misleading term: the project has the ingredients to continue for many years as a successful project on GitHub. Like Bertrand, I think it likely that you can regaining control of the Baremaps trademark. > The main challenges we faced during incubation were the > rewriting of GPL dependencies and a slow release process. I’m sorry to hear that. These are well-known and common pitfalls for Incubator projects, though typically they diminish after a couple of releases. Presuming you have solved all of the licensing issues, Baremaps is in a state where it could be used by ASF and other Apache-licensed projects. > The values of the ASF are probably more important than ever > to build sustainable open source software and healthy communities. I agree. In my opinion, the most important values are a governance model based on a several individuals acting in the best interests of the project (not their employers), communication and decision making in an open forum, and a low bar to new contributors. I have seen those values replicated in projects outside of the ASF and I am sure you can carry them on in Baremaps. Next steps are to get a formal sign-off from trademarks@ and hold a formal vote on this list. Julian --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected]
