Heron Donated to Apache Software Foundation

&gt; Today, we are proud to donate Heron to the Apache Incubator where the community will continue to grow and thrive under the guidance of the Apache Software Foundation<p>Why do I keep reading this as &quot;Today, we are proud to donate Mittens the cat to the local animal shelter where the kitty will continue to grow and thrive under the guidance of the SPCA.&quot;

Given the perception (fair or not) that the ASF is the place that large projects go to die, I&#x27;d like to know why this donation is a good fit for the ASF and what resources are in place to help it flourish there.

My company is considering &quot;upgrading&quot; our Storm topologies to Heron. Given that Storm is Heron&#x27;s predecessor, and Storm itself is maintained by the ASF, I wonder what this donation means for Heron.<p>p.s. does anybody have experience with Dhalion, Heron&#x27;s autoscaling thing (is it a module? or a plugin, idk). All I could find on it was a research paper and a barren github repository; how do you use this thing?

RIP Heron (;,;)