On Tue, Oct 15, 2013 at 12:00 AM, Emmanuel Bourg <ebo...@apache.org> wrote:
> Le 15/10/2013 07:33, Dave Brosius a écrit : > > I couldn't disagree more. Dormant/attic means the project has leprosy. I > > don't know the answer to this, but wondering, has there ever been a > > commit to an attic'ed project? I personally would never think of doing > > that. > > +1 > > I wouldn't use such a strong word, but I agree that putting a component > in the dormant state is the best recipe to repel any contribution. > > I'd prefer a "help wanted" flag on the components still useful but > needing more contributors, and "obsolete" for the components abandoned > because a better alternative exists. > > Let's assume there are no decisions implied and collect the data. I'll admit that my initial email is designed to be trouble making and get attention :) --- Related; here's the output of a 2006 script I've dusted off to show the number of commits and from who to each component in 2013: http://people.apache.org/~bayard/ActivityReport.html Hen
