On Sun Feb 08 2015 at 7:48:11 AM John D. Ament <johndam...@apache.org> wrote:
> So, at this point, is this resolved? I may have missed the final > resolution summary. > > Nevermind, got thrown off in my search by a late vote. I just retired them from podlings.xml and will remove them from the board report shortly, unless someone feels having them on there will still help. > John > > On Wed Jan 21 2015 at 5:15:33 PM Roman Shaposhnik <r...@apache.org> wrote: > >> This is a vote on recommending a retirement option >> for the NPanday poddling. >> >> It comes on the hills of the general consensus of >> the NPanday community and its mentors that >> retirement is the only viable path at this point: >> http://markmail.org/thread/litmh5wmwbclrk6n >> http://s.apache.org/Efn >> >> NPanday entered incubator on 13th of August 2010: >> http://incubator.apache.org/projects/npanday.html >> Up until 2012 the poddling was doing reasonably well, >> producing two releases and adding mentors and >> committers. Starting from 2012 the community started >> to dwindle and no further releases were produced. >> Starting from 2014 the poddling really struggled to >> regain vitality despite of numerous attempts to help >> by Brett Porter and Konstantin Boudnik. The most >> visible attempt was in July/August 2014 and resulted in >> a spur of JIRA and ML activity, but couldn't be sustained >> without direct involvement of Brett and Konstantin: >> https://wiki.apache.org/incubator/August2014 >> Starting from September the poddling was back to >> the usual levels: >> http://mail-archives.apache.org/mod_mbox/incubator-npanday-dev/ >> http://mail-archives.apache.org/mod_mbox/incubator-npanday-commits/ >> http://mail-archives.apache.org/mod_mbox/incubator-npanday-users/ >> while missing Incubator reports: >> https://wiki.apache.org/incubator/November2014 >> https://wiki.apache.org/incubator/December2014 >> and having absolutely 0 commits coming into the repository. >> It now appears that that all of the PPMC has been disengaged >> and the user community for the project is pretty much non existent. >> >> IPMC has been monitoring the situation all throughout 2014: >> http://markmail.org/message/3sbwfpedosyqzqhn >> http://markmail.org/message/c2fbokolyujki3gl >> http://markmail.org/thread/3ttavmqnq5s6pe74 >> http://markmail.org/message/bxelz5ati2hofe4y >> and at this point it feels like the most production option would >> be to recommend retirement of the poddling. Should >> the VOTE pass, Konstantin and myself are volunteering >> to take care of the poddling retirement mechanics. >> >> Vote will run for at least 72 hours (to 1/26/14, noon PST). >> >> [ ] +1 Recommend retiring NPanday poddling from the Incubator. >> [ ] +/-0 Don't care, but... >> [ ] -1 Don't recommend retiring NPanday poddling from the Incubator >> because ... >> >> Thanks, >> Roman. >> >> --------------------------------------------------------------------- >> To unsubscribe, e-mail: general-unsubscr...@incubator.apache.org >> For additional commands, e-mail: general-h...@incubator.apache.org >> >>
