Hi all, My name is Roger Whitcomb and I’m the current PMC Chair for the Apache Pivot project. The Pivot community has been dwindling for a number of years, to where I am essentially the only one working / contributing to it for probably 5 years now. Recently (well 6 months ago), the necessary 3rd (active) PMC member resigned, and so we are left with just two of us who have demonstrated any readiness to respond to votes, etc. So, I have been, in my quarterly Board reports, raising awareness that we’re in trouble because of the lack of sufficient oversight. The responses to my last report were to the effect that I should either contact ComDev to see if there were ideas / suggestions about rebooting or raising interest in the project, OR talk to the Attic folks about moving there. Since I’m still actively working on the project, trying to reboot things still seems good, even though privately I have serious doubts that this could happen. So, why am I contacting you? Well, precisely to get thoughts / ideas / suggestions, if there are any, on how to at least raise interest to the point of recruiting another PMC member for oversight of the project. Secondly, has anyone here been in this position before? If so, what happened? Any thoughts about alternatives? I have thought about retiring the project to the Attic, but then forking to Github (or similar) to continue the work I’m doing. However, that seems like a LOT of work (probably including changing names, changing all the packages, etc, etc.) and I’m not sure of the legal ramifications, since copyright (I assume) would remain with the ASF still. Anyway, I will have a separate conversation with Legal about this, I suppose.
Bottom line: anyone able to give some advice? Thanks in advance, ~Roger Whitcomb Apache Pivot PMC Chair --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@community.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@community.apache.org
