Thank you Nick for your answers and comments. I'm going to share thiswith the Amaya discussion list, and we will see if something could be done.
For what I know, Amaya was first an INRIA project, integrating after W3C supports. > I see you use the word "resurrect" there. Sorry for that term. It may be not a good one. You are right. I did not want to hurt anyone. It was more a sort of image, saying: could Apache help Amaya project, which *was* a web-editor software, according to the fact it is not developed any more. > a viable developer community around the project. Does Amaya have that? I'm afraid "not yet". A couple of individual developers from the Amaya discussion list tried to improve some parts of the software during 2012 and 2013. In 2013, when I proposed to the Amaya discussion list to discuss how we could relaunch the project, a dozen of people expressed their motivation to help if a project to relaunch would be seriously done. Freely, Antoine 2014-07-30 14:38 GMT+02:00 Nick Kew <n...@apache.org>: > On Wed, 30 Jul 2014 10:20:44 +0200 > Antoine Chevrier <1antoinechevri...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > Some of us like to use one of great WYSIWYG web editor: AMAYA software > > <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amaya_%28web_editor%29>. > > The development and the maintaining of this software project, hold at the > > beginning by INRIA, and adopted by W3C, has been stopped, because of the > > retirement of people who drove this project. > > I remember Amaya: it was an interesting experiment. > Wasn't it a W3C project that was briefly funded in the mid-1990s, > but that struggled to maintain momentum when funding dried up? > I guess much may have happened since I looked. > > > An AMAYA discussion list exist on W3C mailing list > > <http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-amaya/>. Appeal to continue > this > > project and technical proposals, appear regularly across this list. > > I see you use the word "resurrect" there. > Apache is not in the business of necrophilia! > > > Our question is this: do you think the Apache Foundation could propose to > > the MAYA mailing list, to open a process to see if AMAYA project could > > enter into the Apache incubator project list, and how could this happen. > > Apache doesn't propose anything. Developers/Communities (having discussed > it amongst themselves) present a proposal to Apache in accordance with the > incubator guidelines[1]. If you want to submit a proposal, you should > start > by reading the guidelines and other incubator documents. > > Note that a prerequisite for incubation is that there should be a > viable developer community around the project. Does Amaya have that? > > [1] http://incubator.apache.org/guides/proposal.html > > -- > Nick Kew >
