svn commit: r1929408 - db/derby/code/trunk

[rh...@apache.org]

Author: rhillegas
Date: Wed Oct 29 17:21:10 2025
New Revision: 1929408

Log:
DERBY-7177: Update STATUS file, recording the vote to retire Derby and noting that the project is now in a retired, read-only mode.

Modified:
   db/derby/code/trunk/STATUS

Modified: db/derby/code/trunk/STATUS
==============================================================================
--- db/derby/code/trunk/STATUS	Wed Oct 29 15:56:38 2025	(r1929407)
+++ db/derby/code/trunk/STATUS	Wed Oct 29 17:21:10 2025	(r1929408)
@@ -11,14 +11,12 @@ Project Status
   contributed the code to The Apache Software Foundation and 
   bases future versions of IBM Cloudscape on the Apache-managed code.
 
-  To participate in Derby, you should join the mailing list. Just 
-  send an empty message to derby-dev-subscribe@db.apache.org.
+  Derby was retired into a read-only mode as of 2025-10-10.
 
 Project info
 
   * As a subproject of the Apache DB project, Derby follows the direction of
-    the Apache DB PMC. Significant contributions over a sustained
-    period of time can earn a contributor commit access to the codebase.
+    the Apache DB PMC.
 
 Official releases:
  * 10.17.1.0 : Released 2023-11-14
@@ -67,6 +65,7 @@ None.
 RECENT VOTES
 =================================
 
+On 2025-10-10, the developer community voted to retire Derby, moving it into read-only mode. See https://lists.apache.org/thread/q7xnvbyo818vvtyh2b5oljr8won4zjx7
 Release 10.16.1.1 was approved as a release on 2022-06-03, published on 2022-06-06, and announced on 2022-06-15.
 Release 10.15.1.3 was approved as a release on 2019-02-26, published on 2019-03-05, and announced on 2019-03-11.
 The community voted to sunset support for Java SE 8. The vote closed on 2017-07-09.
@@ -92,7 +91,7 @@ OTHER NEWS
 RELEASE STATUS
 ==============
 
-The community is working on development in the trunk.
+The community has retired Derby into a read-only mode.