Archiving

[Werner Keil <we...@gmail.com>]

All,

Since Bertrand is leaving the DeviceMap PMC (as of now) it is only a
question of weeks maybe (e.g. till the next board meeting in Seville)
before the project will be archived into the Apache Attic since the minimum
PMC number is no longer met. And of course the community (committers) have
not contributed as intended, so they either don't use DeviceMap (at least
in production) or are fine with the existing codebase. That won't change in
the attic either.

Looking at a recently archived project like DeltaCloud:
http://deltacloud.apache.org/

If the static project page remains in a similar way that would certainly
beneficial.
DeltaCloud also has the download folders
http://www.apache.org/dist/deltacloud/ in place.
Given the latest Snapshot of DeviceMap clients (for Java also in the Maven
snapshot repo) point to http://www.apache.org/dist/devicemap/data instead
of the VM instance, that would be highly beneficial to keep in a similar
way (probably just a symbolic link to
http://archive.apache.org/dist/deltacloud/)

The VM makes no sense, it was often unstable, so best to shut it down no
later than when DeviceMap is actually archived. Those who want to run or
host the demos can do so from source code.

Regards,

Werner

Re: Archiving

[Bertrand Delacretaz <bd...@apache.org>]

Hi,

On Wed, Nov 2, 2016 at 11:42 AM, Werner Keil <we...@gmail.com> wrote:
> ...Since Bertrand is leaving the DeviceMap PMC (as of now) it is only a
> question of weeks maybe (e.g. till the next board meeting in Seville)
> before the project will be archived into the Apache Attic since the minimum
> PMC number is no longer met....

That's correct. http://attic.apache.org/ has more info about this -
basically the code remains available once moved there, in readonly
form.

-Bertrand

Re: Archiving

[Werner Keil <we...@gmail.com>]

That sounds OK. If the latest snapshot builds find the exploded
"convenience" dist/data folder from the latest data release, that sounds
fine.
Those who download it all the time for whatever purpose can continue to do
so.

Taking e.g. JSR-275, there was no support or warranty whatsoever since it
got stopped in 2010. Yet downloads since then are getting close to 100.000
now: https://bintray.com/keilw/maven/javax.measure%3Ajsr-275#statistics
A large number also possibly from Apache projects like SIS.

If you (Bertrand) should be in Seville during Apache Big Data already, we
could have a brief chat there. I only speak Monday and then immediately
head to Sofia for another conference.

Werner