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> Do I just have a completely wrong impression? You have a completely wrong impression. Projects in the wild die all the time, and the process is not necessar

> Do I just have a completely wrong impression? You have a completely wrong impression. Projects in the wild die all the time, and the process is not necessarily neat and tidy. At the ASF, projects must be actively retired, and there are a sequence of actions which must be taken to move the project into the "Attic". Retirement gives all stakeholders a defined close of business. All software projects have a life cycle. What is notable about ASF projects is that the end of the life cycle is comparatively orderly. I wish the Wave folks well as they move on to whatever's next for them.

amyjess 9y ago
And this, of course, leads to selection bias. You hear more about the ASF retiring projects because the ASF has a whole process around it that's publicized. You don't hear too much about some one-man project that stops updating its GitHub all of a sudden. You hear about ASF projects dying becuase the ASF wants people to hear about it.
pbhjpbhj 9y ago
Everything you said there supports the parents notion that ASF is where big projects go to die. You just called it retirement.