Draft - Removing an Inactive Group or Project issueshttp://opensource.ieee.org/community-advisory-group/draft-removing-an-inactive-group-or-project/-/issues2022-05-10T14:14:59Zhttp://opensource.ieee.org/community-advisory-group/draft-removing-an-inactive-group-or-project/-/issues/1Liveness vs Idleness of a project2022-05-10T14:14:59ZJim Lewisjim@synthworks.comLiveness vs Idleness of a projectYour current policy is not very practical for real projects. Commercial vendors in the EDA (electronic design automation) space do releases about once every 6 months. I don't think open source projects should be held to that metric....Your current policy is not very practical for real projects. Commercial vendors in the EDA (electronic design automation) space do releases about once every 6 months. I don't think open source projects should be held to that metric.
When an open source project is mature, the period between updates may be longer than 6 months. It may also be influenced by other factors - such as work load of the individuals working on the project. However, the project is still valuable to the community.
Maybe a better metric would be a check for any project activity - an update should be counted as one form of activity, but so should responding to any open issues or pull requests (that were not previously responded to). Note if there are no issues or pull requests, maybe a project is mature and is being maintained at a slower pace - which is ok. Note I do not necessarily think it should be respond to all issues and pull requests. We are checking to see if they are doing anything. Also note I think it should be respond to and not necessarily address as an issue want to take a project in different direction than it is currently planned.
For example, think of a test results reporter for Continuous Integration - if all the features are working and there are no issues or pull requests, then no activity is still ok. It would be a disservice to the community to move or archive the project as if an issue were encountered then how would we report an issue.
I also think we are in exceptional times. For me they are working in favor of open source project updates as I am meeting on-line rather than traveling. So right now, I have more time to spend on my project and am doing frequent updates. OTOH, when we open, it is likely that I will be traveling alot and updates are likely to be less frequent.