[technology-pmc] Candidates for Termination/Continuation reviews

[Wayne Beaton <wayne@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

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