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Posted to dev@taverna.apache.org by Stian Soiland-Reyes <st...@apache.org> on 2020/02/19 17:15:14 UTC
[RESULT] [VOTE] Retire Taverna from Apache Incubator
+1 Gale Naylor (binding)
+1 Sagar (binding)
+1 Stian Soiland-Reyes (binding)
+1 Stuart Owen (binding)
-1 Sube Singh
-1 Serban Mardaloescu
With 4 IPMC binding votes, and 2 objections,
the retirement vote for Taverna has passed.
Vote thread:
<https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/r559e0dd047103414fbf48a6ce1bac2e17e67504c546300f2751c067c%40%3Cdev.taverna.apache.org%3E>
Thank you to all that voted.
I would like to give a large Thank You to Apache Software Foundation,
IPMC, mentors and volunteers for the patience of letting us have a go
at incubating. I think we have learnt a lot.
For retiring we can request moving the Taverna git repositories to
the GitHub organization <https://github.com/taverna> where the
license remains Apache License 2.0, so development can continue at any
pace (or none).
Taverna PPMC folks and other interested; if you have not yet
received an invite, feel free to reply personally with your GitHub
username I can add you there as a "Caretaker".
After de-branding ("Apache Taverna" -> "Taverna") we can also try to
move the website and documentation to GitHub Pages, hopefully ASF will
afford us a HTTP redirect.
--
Stian Soiland-Reyes
https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9842-9718
On Mon, 3 Feb 2020 14:07:50 +0000, Stian Soiland-Reyes <st...@apache.org> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I think we have to be honest with ourselves.
>
> While we had a good go at Taverna in the Apache Incubator, and lots of
> great effort over the years, we seem to have ground to a standstill.
>
> It looks now almost impossible that we will graduate from the incubator
> and continue to thrive as a top-level Apache project.
>
> I am as guilty as everyone - emails missed, builds not updated, releases
> not completed. The tasks were not large, but they still demand continued
> volunteer effort, which sadly we now seem to have not got anymore.
>
>
> I think I speak for all of you when I am grateful for all the time
> and effort everyone has committed since we moved to Apache Software
> Foundation in 2014.
>
>
> It is therefore with sadness that I call this vote on retiring
> Taverna from the Apache Incubator.
>
>
> I don't think there is any shame if we come to this conclusion,
> this project started 2003-02-24 and the world of bioinformatics and web
> services has changed significantly since then.
>
>
> For more information about what retirement means, see
> https://incubator.apache.org/guides/retirement.html
>
> In terms of codebase my suggestion is that we move the git repositories
> to http://github.com/taverna/ with a clear README indication that
> they are no longer maintained.
>
> I think we should invite anyone on this list to join that GitHub
> organization for a passive curator role, or to delegate if someone
> later wants to reboot the activity.
>
>
> See also previous discussion from 2019-09:
> https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/f9db87bf752c1b77773f2f0ac5be9afd34d29a7cff76d66728a0f713%40%3Cdev.taverna.apache.org%3E
>
>
>
> PLEASE INDICATE YOUR VOTE:
>
> [ ] +1 Retire Taverna
> [ ] 0 Undecided
> [ ] -1 Do not retire Taverna
>
> The vote is open for at least 72 hours for anyone on this list, with a
> lazy consensus.
>
> --
> Stian Soiland-Reyes
> https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9842-9718
>