Hello PMC, As a committer on the XAP Project, I would also vote +1 (non binding of course) for moving the project from incubation to the attic. We have seen little community develop around the project and have been making little/no progress on the code lately.
Thanks for everyones help throughout the process, Bob (Buffone) On Wed, Feb 18, 2009 at 2:37 AM, Robert Burrell Donkin < robertburrelldon...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Tue, Feb 17, 2009 at 2:54 PM, Noel J. Bergman <n...@devtech.com> wrote: > > Robert Burrell Donkin wrote: > >> Noel J. Bergman <n...@devtech.com> wrote: > >> > In August 2008, it was discussed that XAP had been inactive for at > least > > 4 > >> > months. In November 2008, we again saw issues with XAP and discussed > >> > suspension. Having reached, now, February 2009, and still nothing > with > > XAP, > >> > I am raising this as a vote. > > > >> -1 > >> > >> Suspension implies wrongdoing and fault, and that this disciplinary > >> process is temporary > >> > >> IMO XAP should be archived into an Attic > > > > Huh? So when I suspend my laptop, it did something wrong and needs to be > > disciplined? That hasn't been true since I stopped running MS-Windows > > Vista! > > > > The project is dormant, sleeping, idle, hibernating, and can be > mothballed, > > put away in the attic, put on ice. If and when there is further > community > > interest, it can be woken, thawed, taken out of the attic, > recommissioned, > > reactivated, unboxed. > > > > Is your -1 really solely on the word? > > the word is a just a symptom > > if you had asked for a vote on the measures themselves, i would have > been +1 but i don't believe that creating policy on the fly is a good > idea. there is no reason to rush so IMO it should have been used as a > use case for developing and documenting policy. > > disciplinary process is important. something as simple as a choice of > phrase can change the way a particular set of actions is perceived by > the outside world. if writing policy, a reasonable description of the > proposed act would have been 'Suspending Operations' as part of - if > we had some documentation describing and policy controlling - a move > to archive status. > > - robert > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: general-unsubscr...@incubator.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: general-h...@incubator.apache.org > >
