ASF Board Report for Lucene.Net - Repeated Reminder for May 2018

[Phil Steitz <ps...@apache.org>]

Dear Lucene-Net community,

In the governance model at the ASF the board delegates responsibility for
managing projects to PMCs. To enable the board to provide oversight across the
foundation, PMCs are tasked with providing the board with a quarterly
report on the health of the project. The board has noticed that the reports
for Lucene-Net have been missed for a number of months.

The reports to the board are normally written by the PMC chair but all PMC
members have an individual responsibility to ensure that a report is
submitted. If the PMC chair is not available then any PMC member can submit
the report. If you need help with this process, please reach out to
board@apache.org

Please ensure that a report for Lucene-Net is submitted to the board for the
next meeting.

If the PMC chair is not going to be available for an extended period of time
it may make sense to rotate the PMC chair. Rotating the PMC chair does not
mean the current chair has failed. People's situations and interests change,
and rotation is good as it allows more people to become familiar with that
role. Again, if assistance is required with this process, please feel free to
reach out to board@apache.org

As projects mature, they will naturally reach a point where activity reduces
to a level that the project is no longer sustainable. At Apache, projects
reach this stage when there are no longer 3 active PMC members providing
oversight. Projects that reach this stage are placed in the attic[1].  If
Lucene-Net has reached this point, please reach out to the Attic project to
arrange transfer. On the other hand, if your project is mostly dormant but
still has at least three active PMC members it can stay in that state for as
long as needed. If your project is in such a state, please mention that in
your report and verify the PMC's state at regular intervals.

Finally, if you have any questions please feel free to reach out to
board@apache.org.

Thanks,
The ASF Board

[1] (http://attic.apache.org/

Re: ASF Board Report for Lucene.Net - Repeated Reminder for May 2018

[Shannon Deminick <sh...@umbraco.dk>]

I wish I had the time to dive in to the code and help push that part of the
project forward but unfortunately i don't. I've come a long way to getting
the Documentation suite built for 4.8 (
https://github.com/apache/lucenenet/pull/206) and happy to continue
updating this but that's about as much coding contribution as i can do at
the moment.



On Thu, Apr 26, 2018 at 2:17 AM Stefan Bodewig <bo...@apache.org> wrote:

> On 2018-04-23, Phil Steitz wrote:
>
> > As projects mature, they will naturally reach a point where activity
> reduces
> > to a level that the project is no longer sustainable. At Apache, projects
> > reach this stage when there are no longer 3 active PMC members providing
> > oversight.
>
> I've been lucky enough to be a mentor of Lucene.NET while it was part of
> the incubator for the second time and have been hanging around since
> then - not contributing any code.
>
> Given the development activity of the past months, or lack thereof I am
> afraid we may be heading to the Attic. While I believe we'd still be
> able to get three PMC members to vote on anything, I don't believe we'll
> find somebody to actually fix bugs or cut a release.
>
> I'd love to be proven wrong.
>
> Stefan
>
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Re: ASF Board Report for Lucene.Net - Repeated Reminder for May 2018

[Stefan Bodewig <bo...@apache.org>]

On 2018-04-23, Phil Steitz wrote:

> As projects mature, they will naturally reach a point where activity reduces
> to a level that the project is no longer sustainable. At Apache, projects
> reach this stage when there are no longer 3 active PMC members providing
> oversight.

I've been lucky enough to be a mentor of Lucene.NET while it was part of
the incubator for the second time and have been hanging around since
then - not contributing any code.

Given the development activity of the past months, or lack thereof I am
afraid we may be heading to the Attic. While I believe we'd still be
able to get three PMC members to vote on anything, I don't believe we'll
find somebody to actually fix bugs or cut a release.

I'd love to be proven wrong.

Stefan