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chore: add maintenance status to top of README #2236

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14 out of 25 issues on the first page of https://github.com/bazelbuild/rules_docker/issues have no replies.

Issues like #2213 show that releases are stalled right now.

https://github.com/bazelbuild/rules_docker/pulse/monthly shows four commits touching four files in the last month, one of those was me removing an external docs link.

I discussed this with the maintainers on the discussion thread, and we agreed to put up a message for now to better set user expectations. I also alerted the Bazel team to this change in the SIG meeting on March 7, see https://docs.google.com/document/d/1YGCYAGLzTfqSOgRFVsB8hDz-kEoTgTEKKp9Jd07TJ5c/edit#

To be clear: I greatly appreciate the effort that the current two maintainers have made, this is not a vote-of-no-confidence in their engineering abilities or desire to make this repo great. It's just acknowledging the current state of the resources (time and funding) available for this project at the present time.

14 out of 25 issues on the first page of https://github.com/bazelbuild/rules_docker/issues
have no replies.

Issues like #2213 show that releases are stalled right now.

https://github.com/bazelbuild/rules_docker/pulse/monthly shows four
commits touching four files in the last month, one of those was me
removing an external docs link.

I discussed this with the maintainers on the discussion thread, and we agreed to put up a message for now to better set user expectations.
I also alerted the Bazel team to this change in the SIG meeting on March 7, see
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1YGCYAGLzTfqSOgRFVsB8hDz-kEoTgTEKKp9Jd07TJ5c/edit#

To be clear: I greatly appreciate the effort that the current two
maintainers have made, this is not a vote-of-no-confidence in their
engineering abilities or desire to make this repo great. It's just
acknowledging the current state of the resources (time and funding)
available for this project at the present time.
@alexeagle alexeagle merged commit 6db7c12 into master Mar 21, 2023
@alexeagle alexeagle deleted the maintenance_update branch March 21, 2023 21:01
adamsb6 pushed a commit to rockset/rules_docker that referenced this pull request Apr 18, 2023
14 out of 25 issues on the first page of https://github.com/bazelbuild/rules_docker/issues
have no replies.

Issues like bazelbuild#2213 show that releases are stalled right now.

https://github.com/bazelbuild/rules_docker/pulse/monthly shows four
commits touching four files in the last month, one of those was me
removing an external docs link.

I discussed this with the maintainers on the discussion thread, and we agreed to put up a message for now to better set user expectations.
I also alerted the Bazel team to this change in the SIG meeting on March 7, see
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1YGCYAGLzTfqSOgRFVsB8hDz-kEoTgTEKKp9Jd07TJ5c/edit#

To be clear: I greatly appreciate the effort that the current two
maintainers have made, this is not a vote-of-no-confidence in their
engineering abilities or desire to make this repo great. It's just
acknowledging the current state of the resources (time and funding)
available for this project at the present time.
copybara-service bot pushed a commit to bazelbuild/bazel that referenced this pull request Aug 18, 2023
I believe it is no longer maintained, so I'm following the process outlined in the Bazel documentation: https://bazel.build/community/recommended-rules#demotion

Here's some data on rules_docker:
- Maintenance signals have gone down significantly in the last year: https://oss-compass.org/analyze/snbnfub0?range=1Y
- Hasn't been released in a year
- Second-most-recent commit was mine from about five months ago, adding the "minimal maintenance mode" bazelbuild/rules_docker#2236 - there's more context in that PR.
- Never reached 1.0

rules_oci seems like the replacement.
- It has strong adoption testimonials bazel-contrib/rules_oci#299
- Version is 1.2 with semver guarantees

Closes #19123.

PiperOrigin-RevId: 558059587
Change-Id: I4c175a79b3429947fa036a22165839dcf285b28d
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