Hope I didn't throw you off, just wanted to make sure I was doing some basic shepherding work (since I pulled the NPanday card this month :-)
John On Sun Feb 08 2015 at 8:06:51 PM Roman Shaposhnik <ro...@shaposhnik.org> wrote: > FWIW: Cos and I were planning to finalize the retirement steps today. > > Thanks, > Roman. > > On Sun, Feb 8, 2015 at 5:01 AM, John D. Ament <johndam...@apache.org> > wrote: > > On Sun Feb 08 2015 at 7:57:28 AM Dave Fisher <dave2w...@comcast.net> > wrote: > > > >> We need to report that NPanday is being retired. > >> > >> > > Yep, added a retired section. > > > > John > > > > > >> On Feb 8, 2015, at 4:50 AM, John D. Ament wrote: > >> > >> > 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 > >> >>> > >> >>> > >> > >> > >> --------------------------------------------------------------------- > >> 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 > >
