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Re: [technology-pmc] Candidates for Termination/Continuation reviews
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A couple of months ago, I suggested to the Maynstall leadership to do
the archival and termination review; Tim Webb (Maynstall lead) agreed
but I don't think he ever followed through.
See http://dev.eclipse.org/mhonarc/lists/maynstall-dev/msg00033.html
As for the m2e project, speaking candidly I'm not so sure it is worth
continuation. I have several reasons for this doubt:
1) In my brief time using it, the overall quality is just not very
good. I'm not sure if it is a fundamental problem or superficial
things that can be fixed. Probably a mixture of both.
2) The IP approval is now hinging on the delivery of Maven 3.0 and its
clearing of the Plexus dependency; but Maven 3 has been "on the
horizon" for quite a while now and I could not find any projected
release date (as far as I can tell, Maven 3.0 is still at the "alpha"
level). Given the uncertainty about when Maven 3 will be released
compounded with the uncertainty about whether or not that will
actually clear the Plexus IP issue, is it prudent to keep m2e (or IAM,
for that matter) in a holding pattern indefinitely?
Eric
On Dec 2, 2009, at 5:27 PM, Wayne Beaton wrote:
Greetings Technology PMC. I have done a quick review of some of our
projects and have come to the conclusion that it might be time to
consider terminating/archiving some of them. I have identified some
others that are due for a continuation review (this list is not
complete).
I'd like to hear your thoughts/concerns before I take this to the
projects themselves. I intend to use the projects' developer mailing
list for the communication, and give the projects until year's end
to respond. We'll do the termination review at the beginning of 1Q10.
Your recommendations for projects that need to be added to this list
are most welcome as well.
I will offer to assemble a single termination review document for
all that agree.
Thanks,
Wayne
Albireo
There hasn't been a commit in more than nine months. The last
committer activity on the project's mailing list occurred on
December 17, 08. The last committer activity on the newsgroup/forum
occurred on November 7, 2008. The project seems to be dead. I
recommend a Termination Review.
technology.athena
I just noticed this "extra" Athena project (technology.athena) in
the database. I'm not sure how this got there, but it seems to be
different from technology.dash.athena. I think it may have just
gotten created by mistake.
BPEL
Seems generally active, but hasn't had a review of any form in
while. I recommend we ask for a continuation review. It may be
naive, but it seems to me that this project might fit in the new SOA
top level project that the board recently approved the charter for.
I'd like to encourage them to consider moving.
ECM Rich Client Platform
Project is marked as "Incubation-nonconforming". All committers are
currently listed as "inactive" meaning that there have been no
commits for at least nine months. There has been no committer
activity in the newsgroup/forum for more than a year. Developer
mailing list has been inactive for more than a year. The project
seems to be dead. I recommend a Termination review.
IAM
The project was recently informed by the IP Team that their blocker
dependency (Maven) doesn't pass IP scrutiny. Specifically, there is
an issue with the provenance of the Maven Plexus component that
cannot be resolved [1]. There is some hope that, with the 3.0
release of Maven, this issue will be resolved. In the meantime,
there's really not much that they can do but wait. I recommend a
continuation review. Alternatively, the project might consider
terminating and recreating at a future date when the provenance
issues are cleared up.
Maven Integration (m2eclipse)
This project has the same issue as IAM. I recommend a continuation
review. Alternatively, the project might consider terminating and
recreating at a future date when the provenance issues are cleared up.
Maynstall
All committers are currently listed as "inactive" meaning that there
have been no commits for at least nine months. There has been no
committer activity in the newsgroup/forum for more than a year.
Developer mailing list has been inactive for more than a year. The
project seems to be dead. I recommend a Termination review.
Open Financial Market Platform
AFAIK, the project lead intends to archive this project in favour of
the new Eclipse Financial Platform project currently in the proposal
stage. All committers are currently listed as "inactive" meaning
that there have been no commits for at least nine months. There has
been no committer activity in the newsgroup/forum for more than a
year. Developer mailing list has been inactive for more than a year.
The project seems to be dead. I recommend a Termination review.
Open Requirements Management Framework
All committers are currently listed as "inactive" meaning that there
have been no commits for at least nine months. There has, however,
been relatively activity in the mailing lists and newsgroup. I
recommend a continuation review.
The Eclipse Spaces Project
With the exception of one, all committers are currently listed as
"inactive" meaning that there have been essentially no commits for
at least nine months. That one commit occurred in March. There has
been no committer activity in the newsgroup/forum for more than nine
months. Developer mailing list has been inactive for more than nine
months. The project seems to be dead. I recommend a Termination
review.
Summer of Code (SOC)
This project was never particularly active. We originally created it
to provide a home for code generated by the GSoC programme offering
at Eclipse. We haven't actually committed any code to this project
or any of its subprojects for a long time. We didn't use it at all
in the last year. I recommend a Termination review of this
container project and all its subprojects. We can keep the website
and newsgroup alive as just one more of the properties that the
Eclipse Foundation maintains.
Corona Project - Tools Services Framework
There have been commits in the last six months, but nothing in the
last three. I don't think it's time to ask for a termination review,
but it is certainly time to request a continuation review.
[1] https://dev.eclipse.org/ipzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=3164
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