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No, the commit activity is not to prevent attracting the attention of the board, since the board does not monitor commit activity as a metric of project health.

FWIW, the article has an invalid email address in it, so nobody's getting those messages.

The ASF does not tell projects what to do. It provides a process and a place, and gives projects autonomy. The project, not the foundation, decides to keep running the project. So …

The ASF does have a marker for retired projects. See https://attic.apache.org/ Software projects have a natural lifecycle, and since we've been around for almost 30 years, there's …

It's important to note that the ASF did say no to Wave. It never made it out of the Incubator, because it was unable to build an active user community.

I'm fascinated at your characterization of both Kafka and Spark as being absorbed by Amazon. AWS offers hosted versions of each. They are not, as you say "rebranded and for sale", …

The dates on that page were always dependent on Red Hat. In retrospect, obviously we should have made that clearer, and we will endeavor to do so in the future.

Not only does this not "stick it to the man", it's directly addressed in the FAQ. If folks want to boot up another rebuild project, there's nothing preventing that. There are also …

So ... I wrote that, and it's worth mentioning that I knew Noirin before the preference for different pronouns was stated. That is, I knew Noirin, as mentioned in my blog post, dur…