Re: [DISCUSS] Dissolve the VXQuery PMC and move the project to the attic

[Till Westmann <ti...@apache.org>]

Hi Riyafa,

As you have seen, there were no replies to this thread for 2.5 months.
It does seem that there is not enough interest to make the project 
viable at this point in time.

However,
(a) the VOTE on moving the project to the attic could show a different 
result and
(b) the software does not disappear when the project is moved to the 
Attic - the project could be forked outside of the ASF or revived within 
the ASF (this happened e.g. for XML Beans [5]).

I will start the VOTE today.

Till

[5] https://attic.apache.org/projects/xmlbeans.html

On 15 Dec 2019, at 4:23, Riyafa Abdul Hameed wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I just noticed this mail and would very much regret to see VXQuery 
> being
> moved to attic. Am I mistaken in thinking that by moving this project 
> to
> attic that we are saying that the project has reached its end of life? 
> I
> think there would be much use cases where VXQuery can be useful in. 
> Could
> it be that the project lacks sufficient publicity among software
> developers? Is there a way we can change it if possible?
>
> Thanks,
> Riyafa
>
>
>
> On Mon, 30 Sep 2019 at 09:28, Till Westmann <ti...@apache.org> wrote:
>
>> Hi VXQuery Developers,
>>
>> Apache VXQuery has not seen a lot of activity recently. The last 
>> release
>> was in
>> May of 2016 [1], the last commit in July of 2018 [2], and the last
>> message on
>> the dev list was in January of this year [3].
>>
>> It also seems that there are no active committers anymore and that 
>> the
>> project
>> is thus a candidate for the Apache Attic [4].
>>
>> Before starting a vote on the dissolution of the PMC and moving the
>> project to
>> the Attic I’d like to start a discussion here to find out
>> a) if there still is interest among the 30+ subscribers of this list
>> helping to
>>     maintain Apache VXQuery and
>> b) if there are ideas that could make VXQuery more interesting again.
>>
>> Thank you for your contributions,
>> Till
>>
>> [1] https://reporter.apache.org/wizard/statistics?vxquery
>> [2]
>>
>> https://github.com/apache/vxquery/commit/5d1175d2cb04a54ba751295f2ac67daec38bf723
>> [3]
>>
>> https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/32bdfd59fd827971c91f78ee6015c90ef3a12624ba54f83037635d0a@%3Cdev.vxquery.apache.org%3E
>> [4] https://attic.apache.org
>>