Issue #6: Identify packages with dead upstream projects - java-maint-sig

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#6 Identify packages with dead upstream projects

Opened 3 years ago by decathorpe. Modified 3 years ago

I'd like to collect a list of packages where the upstream project has ostensibly died or vanished. I would maintain a fork of those projects, so we have a place where we can "upstream" our fixes and changes, maybe collaborate with OpenSUSE packagers, and don't have to cargo-cult with downstream patches forever.

decathorpe commented 3 years ago

Candidates for dead projects (covers packages currently maintained by both @java-maint-sig and @stewardship-sig):

ant-contrib (forked at https://github.com/antlibs/ant-contrib?)
aopalliance
atinject (forked at https://github.com/javax-inject/javax-inject?)
dain-snappy
isorelax
jakarta-commons-httpclient (is now httpcomponents-client ?)
java_cup (dead but moved to https://versioncontrolseidl.in.tum.de/parsergenerators/cup)
jboss-foo-x.y-api ???
jdepend (moved to https://github.com/clarkware/jdepend)
jdom2 (moved to https://github.com/hunterhacker/jdom)
log4j12 (very dead since 2012: https://github.com/apache/log4j)
maven-artifact-resolver (dead since 2012)
maven-shared-incremental (dead since 2013)
munge-maven-plugin (dead since 2011)
objectweb-pom (dead since 2012)
paranamer (pretty dead since 2015?)
plexus-build-api (dead since 2011)
plexus-cipher (moved to https://github.com/codehaus-plexus/plexus-cipher ?)
plexus-i18n (dead since 2010: https://github.com/codehaus-plexus/plexus-i18n)
plexus-resources (dead since 2017: https://github.com/codehaus-plexus/plexus-resources)
plexus-sec-dispatcher (dead since 2009: https://github.com/codehaus-plexus/plexus-sec-dispatcher)
plexus-velocity (dead since 2016: https://github.com/codehaus-plexus/plexus-velocity)
regexp (dead since 2011: "As of 2011-04-17, the Regexp project is retired")
replacer (dead since 2014: https://github.com/beiliubei/maven-replacer-plugin)
spice-parent (dead since 2012)
velocity (update to velocity2)
xalan-j2 (dead since 2014)
xz-java (dead since 2018)