Thanks Sharan, I don't know much about Graphviz but I remember we spoke about using Graphviz with Ron in the OFBiz project.
He mentioned: "If we go with AsciiDoc, *GraphViz* is built-in and will become more familiar to everyone."[1] Since we use AsciiDoc for our documentation now having **Graphviz in Apache will certainly be helpful, and not only for OFBiz. Anyway a big +1 to invite Graphviz in the incubator. I may even help if necessary. Jacques [1] https://markmail.org/message/mp7u7iq3ro7pfl2a Le 03/06/2018 à 17:29, sha...@apache.org a écrit :
Hi All I received this request from Stephen so am forwarding to the general incubator mailing list for discussion and any suggestions for options. Thanks Sharan -------- Forwarded Message -------- Subject: graphviz as a potential apache project Date: Thu, 31 May 2018 17:51:04 -0400 From: Stephen North <scno...@gmail.com> Reply-To: Stephen North <scno...@gmail.com> To: sha...@apache.org Hi, Sharan. I hope you’re the right person for this. (Your org. just sent an invitation to an Apache roadshow event under your name.) I’m one of the founders of Graphviz, 20+ years ago, and it’s useful infrastructure software with new and old applications in bioinformatics, machine learning, software engineering and other fields, including plugins for R, python, Haskell, transpiled into javascript, who knows what else. I think for example clang, llvm, maybe Go use it for debug output. See www.graphviz.org We started this in AT&T Labs but AT&T discontinued all support for the work, eliminated some of our jobs or encouraged us to leave, has disclaimed the project, so we’re on our own. We maintain the software and the website, that we moved to gitlab. We are looking for a more stable institutional home for Graphviz. Apache seems like a great match. Is this possible? How is a decision like that made? I’m not sure a mature project like this fits the incubator model. Are there other ways? Sorry if this has gone long (I could say a lot more, too, for example how we could put focus effort on new features, or providing better resources to people that need network visualization as a service). I’m hoping you’re the right person to start the conversation. Thank you for your time, and for your consideration. Stephen North
