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 # Apache Quickstep (Incubating)
 
+THIS PODLING HAS BEEN RETIRED. PLEASE SEE RETIRED.md FOR DETAILS.
+
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 [Travis]: https://travis-ci.org/apache/incubator-quickstep
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+Quickstep has been retired from Apache's Incubator due to lack of
+activity on 30th of November 2018.
+
+Please see http://incubator.apache.org/projects/index.html for details.