This is, unfortunately, standard practice for the ASF. After Google shut down Wave in late 2010, they donated the code to the ASF; the project [1] sat largely i

This is, unfortunately, standard practice for the ASF. After Google shut down Wave in late 2010, they donated the code to the ASF; the project [1] sat largely inactive in the Apache Incubator until finally being shut down in 2018. If you poke around in Apache's project list [2], you'll easily find other projects which followed a similar trajectory -- a few months, maybe a year of activity, followed by years of neglect. [1]: http://incubator.apache.org/projects/wave.html http://incubator.apache.org/projects/wave.html [2]: https://www.apache.org/index.html#projects-list https://www.apache.org/index.html#projects-list