Projects without activity that should be considered for termination by EMO
We will use this ticket to track projects identified by @fgurr and @webmaster that have shown none or little activity for some time.
Google sheet with some notes: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1rhQrNxInky7nD1NdYj7Pyn02WQJSj3TKRsPBIGDZVx8/edit#gid=0
If you wish to nominate a project for consideration please use the following template:
- Project Name:
- URL:
- Last commit:
- Last release:
- Reason for nomination:EMO will review the nominated projects based on the following criteria:
- Last commit date and reason for nomination
- Presence of active Project Leads and Committers
- Communication channels activity
- Engagement and responsiveness to EMO and IT teams
- Project status (i.e. incubation/mature)
If the proposed project is found to be "inactive" by EMO we will
- Reach out to PMC and PLs to ask for more information about the project status
- EMO will schedule a termination review
If the proposed project is determined to be stable
- EMO will schedule a progress review
EMO will post a link to the corresponding review ticket in this same issue.
Activity
First up:
- Eclipse Libra last release 2017-06-28, no commit in the last 12 months, no CI build in the last 12 months
Edited by Maria Teresa DelgadoI'll get in touch with the PMC to ask for their feedback. Thanks @fgurr!
Termination review has been scheduled for Eclipse Libra: #194 (closed)
assigned to @mdelgado624
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Next up:
- Requirements Modeling Framework: last release 2016-03-01, no commit in the last 12 months, no CI build in the last 12 months
Termination review has been scheduled: https://projects.eclipse.org/projects/modeling.mdt.rmf/reviews/termination-review
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Next up:
- Eclipse Concierge: last release 2018-11-08, no commit in the last 12 months, no successful CI build in 1 year and 7 months
- Eclipse Formal Modeling Project: no release, no commit in the last 12 months, no successful CI build in 1 year and 4 months
- Gemini - Enterprise Modules Project: no release, no commit in the last 12 months, no successful CI build in 1 year and 1 month
- Eclipse TeXlipse: last release 2020-10-13, no commit in the last 12 months, no successful CI build in 1 year
- Eclipse SeCo Blocks: no release, no commit in the last 12 months, no successful CI build in 1 year and 1 month
Edited by Maria Teresa Delgado @fgurr Thanks for the heads up. I'll start contacting PMCs and PLs to schedule termination reviews for these projects.
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/cc @fdesbiens can you comment on the status of Eclipse Concierge?
@fgurr I never spoke to anyone from the team (although I tried), and the GitHub and mailing list have been quiet for two years or more. I would suggest starting the termination process and seeing if that pushes someone to take action.
- Eclipse Concierge Termination: #375 (closed)
- Eclipse Formal Modeling Project Termination: #376 (closed)
- Gemini - Enterprise Modules Project Termination: #377 (closed)
- Eclipse TeXlipse Termination: #378 (closed)
- Eclipse SeCo Blocks Termination: #379 (closed)
FYI, already received some pushback for the TeXlipse project. Some of these inactive projects are just in a mature state, not making any new releases. I think is a good idea to have a termination review "failed" if this is the case, so we have a track record of the state of these projects. Other ideas or suggestions are also welcome.
Eclipse Formal Modeling Project Termination: #376 (closed)
Dear Maria Teresa Delgado @mdelgado624
We have received about the potential termination of EFM. It is true that there has not been commit for a while. This is due:
- the modeling tools (on efm: efm-hibou / efm-symbex+efm-modeling) are stable
- some evolution of tools are being developed but there are conducted internally at CEA, and they will be released when they are stabilized
We hope that it is possible to keep this project open. If you need more information about what are the new features, we can provide you with publications that describe them (concerning efm-hibou / efm-symbex+efm-modeling ).
Regards,
Boutheina, Christophe, Arnault
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Next up:
- Eclipse E4: last release 2012-06-27, no commit in the last 12 months, no successful CI build in more than 1 year
- Eclipse EGF: last release 2019-12-03, no commit in the last 12 months, no successful CI build in more than 1 year
- Eclipse Apogy: no release, no commit in the last 12 months, no successful CI build in more than 1 year
- Eclipse Jemo: no release, no commit in the last 12 months, no successful CI build in more than 1 year
- Eclipse Jubula: last release 2020-12-16, no commit in the last 12 months, no successful CI build in more than 1 year
- Eclipse Tigerstripe: last release 2011-07-31, no commit in the last 12 months, no successful CI build in more than 2 years
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Eclipse PTP: last release 2020-03-18, no commit in the last 12 months, no successful CI build in more than 1 year
Edited by Maria Teresa Delgado Thanks @fgurr. I’ll initiate the process so we can schedule termination reviews for the projects that need one.
eclipse.e4 - Project lead was unresponsive on eclipsefdn/helpdesk#2718 (closed) and most recent repo activity was 2018. Unclear if this project has been officially merged into eclipse.platform or not.
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eclipse.e4 - PL responded on eclipsefdn/helpdesk#3010 (closed) that their Jenkins instance is no longer required.
mentioned in issue #508 (closed)
Projects identified by @webmaster that need to be reviewed for termination:
- Eclipse Mobile Tools for Java: https://projects.eclipse.org/projects/tools.mtj
- Eclipse Ogee: https://projects.eclipse.org/projects/technology.ogee
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Eclipse Paho Incubator: https://projects.eclipse.org/projects/iot.paho.incubator -
EMF Teneo Model - Relational Database Integration: https://projects.eclipse.org/projects/modeling.emf.teneo - Eclipse GMF Tooling: https://projects.eclipse.org/projects/modeling.gmf-tooling
- Mangrove - SOA Modeling Framework: https://projects.eclipse.org/projects/soa.mangrove
- EMFT Texo: https://projects.eclipse.org/projects/modeling.emft.texo
- Eclipse Agent Modeling Platform: https://projects.eclipse.org/projects/modeling.amp
- Eclipse UML Profiles Repository: https://projects.eclipse.org/projects/modeling.upr
- Cloud Application Management Framework: https://projects.eclipse.org/projects/technology.camf
- Eclipse JWT: https://projects.eclipse.org/projects/soa.jwt
- Eclipse Real-Time Software Components: https://projects.eclipse.org/projects/technology.rtsc
Edited by Maria Teresa Delgadomentioned in issue #507 (closed)
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Next up:
- Eclipse Unide, last release 2018-03-07, no commit in the last 12 months
mentioned in issue #505 (closed)
mentioned in issue #504 (closed)
mentioned in issue #503 (closed)
mentioned in issue #501 (closed)
mentioned in issue #500 (closed)
mentioned in issue #499 (closed)
mentioned in issue #498 (closed)
mentioned in issue #497 (closed)
mentioned in issue #496 (closed)
mentioned in issue #495 (closed)
I've reached out to all 21 projects and PMCs to request for additional information before starting to schedule termination reviews for these. I've created a spreadsheet to keep track of these projects.
I've set up the due date of this issue to September 6th. Considering the summer break, I'll give te project teams and PMCs some time to get back to us before moving this forward.
@mdelgado624 take Eclipse EMF Teneo off the list, please (cc @emerks)
I've currently scheduled Termination reviews for the following projects:
- Eclipse Mangrove: https://projects.eclipse.org/projects/soa.mangrove/reviews/termination-review
- Eclipse JWT: https://projects.eclipse.org/projects/soa.jwt/reviews/termination-review
- Eclipse E4: https://projects.eclipse.org/projects/eclipse.incubator.e4/reviews/termination-review
- Eclipse Unide: https://projects.eclipse.org/projects/iot.unide/reviews/termination-review
I've removed the following projects from our list of candidates for termination, due to either push back from the community of their project teams:
- Eclipse EMF Teneo
- Eclipse Paho Incubator
- Eclipse PTP
Edited by Maria Teresa DelgadoI've scheduled another round of termination reviews today:
- Eclipse Apogy: #583 (closed)
- Eclipse Jemo: #584 (closed)
- Eclipse Jubula: #585 (closed)
- Eclipse Tigerstripe: #586 (closed)
- Eclipse Ogee: #587 (closed)
- Cloud Application Management Framework: #588 (closed)
- Eclipse Real-Time Software Components: #589 (closed)
- Eclipse GMF Tooling: #593 (closed)
- EMFT Texo: #592 (closed)
- Eclipse Agent Modeling Platform: #594 (closed)
- Eclipse UML Profiles Repository: #595 (closed)
And a couple of progress reviews for the projects that received push back:
- Eclipse EGF: #591 (closed)
- EMF Teneo Model - Relational Database Integration: #590
I'll follow up on September 27th, the day that all of these terminations are scheduled to happen.
@webmaster @jmazanek4ep FYI this is coming your way.
Edited by Maria Teresa DelgadoHappy to report I've completed 15 termination reviews today.
Once webmaster archives the resources we can close the tickets.
Modeling.emft.refactor, last updates were years ago(9-11 in some cases). Project was unresponsive to it's move issue(eclipsefdn/helpdesk#3031 (closed))
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Next up:
- Eclipse Smartmdsd, last release 2022-04-04, no commit in the last 12 months
- Eclipse January, last release 2022-02-16, no commit in the last 12 months
- Eclipse Texlipse, last release 2020-10-13, no commit in the last 12 months, it still seems to be pretty dead after #378 (closed) and #380 (closed)
- Eclipse Stem, last release 2022-01-01, no commit in the last 12 months
- Eclipse fog05, last release 2020-06-30, no commit in the last 12 months
- Eclipse Keti, last release 2019-05-15, no commit in the last 12 months
thanks @fgurr, will start the process and keep everyone updated using this ticket.
Edited by Maria Teresa Delgado
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Note about Eclipse PTP:
Greg Watson: "I think the project is inactive at this point so I’m ok if you want to remove it."
This related project seems also just as old:
https://git.eclipse.org/r/q/bpmn2%2Forg.eclipse.bpmn2
How is the candidate determined?
FYI, both contribute (stale) content to the release train. Last time I was going to remove the content there was some scrambling to refresh the content; I had to provide some help getting builds working...
Generally if either webmaster or the RelEng team are trying to get a projects 'attention'(eg: hey your CI instance isn't doing anything, what gives?) and we get nothing but radio silence after a few attempts to reach out we nominate them here.
While I don't know about opening nominations to everyone in the community, I think there is a solid case for allowing committer reps or PMC leads, or simrel maintainers to nominate projects.
@mdelgado624 would you please consider Eds request and add modeling.mdt.bpmn2 to the list?
Actually, anyone from the community can "nominate" potential candidates for terminations. EMO will investigate if a project is inactive and not engaging with its community following our open source best practices, and determine if a termination (or a progress) review is needed.
Thanks @emerks for pointing this out. I've added this project to the list of termination candidates:
mentioned in issue eclipsefdn/helpdesk#3817 (closed)
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Next up:
- Project Name: Eclipse Andmore
- URL: https://projects.eclipse.org/projects/tools.andmore
- Last commit: more than 12 months ago
- Last release: 2017-01-25
- Reason for nomination: It's dead.
- Project Name: Eclipse Andmore
