Sunset on Avalon

[J Aaron Farr <fa...@apache.org>]

Hello all.

Okay, let's bring it up now since it has already been hinted at on 
numerous other forums:  closing up Avalon.

Now, before anyone gets concerned, let's look at the situation:

1. Excalibur is already an ASF project which supports ECM, Fortress and 
soon the traditional Avalon framework, Logkit and Cornerstone.

2. Phoenix development halted a while ago and continues now at 
Codehaus's Loom project

3. With Niclas's proposal, Merlin will find a new home at DPML.org

That means that everything and everyone in Avalon should be able to find 
support somewhere by developers who care about their project and don't 
have competing interests.

The next step would be the closure of the Avalon project.  The releases 
and code would still be available under the ASL on the distribution 
mirrors.  We would work up a new site which informs everyone where to 
find the new projects and perhaps some appropriate redirects.

I'm bringing this up now so that any concerns by either developers or 
users can be addressed.  Nothing will be closed down until we are sure 
that everything has been transferred and handled properly.  That 
includes moving code to Excalibur and DPML.  The absolute earliest a 
closure could happen would be shortly after the next board meeting this 
month, but I believe November is probably more realistic.

Anyway, if we want to table this discussion until we get the DPML 
proposal handled first that is fine.  I just wanted to throw the idea 
out so that we can start thinking about it.

Thanks,
jaaron

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