[RESULT] [VOTE] Termination of the WSRP4J incubator project

[Ate Douma <at...@douma.nu>]

The vote for proposing termination of the WSRP4J Incubator podling has passed with 19 +1 votes (8 binding Portals PMC Members),
no 0 votes and 1 -1 (non-binding and without arguments provided) vote.

The next step is to send the proposed termination up for vote on the Apache Incubator itself.

Regards,

Ate


On 04/09/2010 12:01 AM, Ate Douma wrote:
> Dear Portals PMC and Portals community members,
>
> The WSRP4J incubator project has been dormant for several years already.
> The last commit dates back almost 2 years ago, the last emails send to
> the user/dev mailing list even longer than that.
>
> An important activity blocker for the Portals committers has been the
> unclear situation with the possible IP issue.
> That issue has finally been addressed sometime last year and no longer
> holds a lock on further progress for the project.
>
> However, although there is known interest in a proper WSRP
> implementation within Apache Portals, especially when integrated with
> the Jetspeed-2 Portal, it looks like the WSRP4J project itself lost its
> momentum, its active committers and its community.
>
> The facts are: the current WSRP4J code base is now too outdated: based
> on also outdated Pluto 1.x and targeting the WSRP v1.0 spec while the
> WSRP v2.0 spec is available already for almost 2 years now.
>
> If a proper WSRP implementation is wished for, it should now implement
> the v2.0 spec and should be easy to integrate with (at least) current
> Jetspeed-2 Portal. Trying to revive the WSRP4J project or even just
> reusing the outdated code-base for that purpose no longer makes sense.
> More likely we'll start writing a new WSRP (v2.0) producer from scratch
> within the Jetspeed-2 project itself, and a generic WSRP consumer
> portlet application at Portals Applications.
>
> As the Mentors of the WSRP4J project haven't been active in a long time
> either, the Portals PMC as Sponsor of WSRP4J has taken over their
> responsibilities.
>
> Therefore I'm asking the Portals PMC to VOTE for proposing the
> termination of the WSRP4J podling to the Incubator PMC.
>
> This Vote is open for the next 72 hours.
>
> Please cast your vote:
>
> [ ] +1 for termination of WSRP4J
> [ ] 0 for Don't care
> [ ] -1 for No, please keep it alive (do provide solid arguments why)
>
> With kind regards,
>
> Ate Douma
>
>
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