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NOTICE: THIS PROJECT WILL END SUPPORT ON [DAY MONTH YEAR]

This project is owned and maintained by [ORG NAME]. We will be decommissioning this project and stop public support on the date noted above. After this time, we will no longer be monitoring the issues for this project or reviewing pull requests. You are free to continue using this project under the license terms or to fork this project at your own risk.

This project [WILL | WILL NOT] remain publicly available for reference after the date noted above.

Actions You Can Take

The following open source and/or commercial options MAY provide suitable functionality similar to this project; HOWEVER, [ORG NAME] makes no guarantees of suitability or security:

Further, we recommend you take the following action:

  • Review any configuration files used for build automation and make appropriate updates to remove or replace this project
  • Notify other members of your team and/or organization of this change
  • Notify your security team to help you evaluate alternative options

Forking and Transition of Ownership

For security reasons, [ORG NAME] does not transfer the ownership of our primary repos on GitHub or other platforms to other individuals/organizations. Further, we do not transfer ownership of packages for public package management systems.

If you would like to fork this package and continue development, you should choose a new name for the project and create your own packages, build automation, etc. Please contact [OPEN SOURCE TEAM CONTACT EMAIL OR FORM] if you plan to fully maintain a fork of this project, and we may add your project to the list above.

Please review the licensing terms of this project, which continue to be in effect even after deprecation and decommission.