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On Nov 25, 2012, at 7:33 PM, Eric Yang wrote:

> Hi IPMC,
>=20
> For the past two years, Chukwa has been labelled as non-active project =
by
> mentors, and has been put on votes for retiring this project by mentor =
and
> IPMC.
> In this year's stats, Chukwa has more activities in comparison to =
Apache
> Wink in both mailing list traffic and resolved jiras.  Yet Chukwa has =
been
> voted to discontinue by mentors, but Wink is voted to graduate  by the =
same
> mentor. Here are the number of mails showed up in dev list between =
Apache
> Chukwa and Apache Wink:

Since I am the mentor that started the retirement vote on the podling I =
will explain my perspective.

What it comes down to is actual diverse activity.  For me, the =
overwhelming bulk of the work for Chukwa was being done by one person.  =
While looking at the raw numbers the two projects seem similar, if you =
scrub the threads where we discuss whether or not to retire Chukwa and =
also look at who's doing the actual work, it seems to me that the two =
projects are not exactly the same.


Regards,
Alan


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