Michael, Please if at all possible post a report to this effect, and then hold a community vote on retirement.
--benson On Thu, Jan 10, 2013 at 2:07 PM, Michael Stroucken <mxs+apa...@cmu.edu> wrote: > On 10.01.13 11:11, Craig L Russell wrote: >> >> Hi, >> >> The Tashi report is missing. There doesn't appear to be any activity in >> the project. The last activity was around the previous incubator report. >> >> Anyone around here? > > Hi Craig, > > I just got back from a two week trip. I think Richard may have written a > report in my absence. > > But I feel that the project should be retired. The current state of the > project provides something that works, but other projects in this field have > more mindshare, and their code update and bug fix rate is much higher. > > I don't think association with Apache will provide much mutual future > benefit. Three years ago, when Tashi began incubation, Tashi was one of the > first projects to address the sharing of computing power, and was indeed > groundbreaking. But the project received only negligible promotion from one > of the groups initially sponsoring it, and other endeavours quickly gained > features and mindshare. Tashi still has several advantages over them, but I > as main contributor over the last year have moved on to other primary > challenges, and feel that hosting on Sourceforge or Github would be more > useful for a slow-moving project. Receiving fixes, gaining regular > contributors and making releases should also be easier to effect outside of > Apache. > > Greetings, > Michael. > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: general-unsubscr...@incubator.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: general-h...@incubator.apache.org > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: general-unsubscr...@incubator.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: general-h...@incubator.apache.org
