Merge pull request #436 from brharrington/status

clarify project status
Netflix · Jan 8, 2018 · b680c9d · b680c9d
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diff --git a/OSSMETADATA b/OSSMETADATA
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-osslifecycle=active
+osslifecycle=maintenance
diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
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+# DEPRECATED
+
+This project receives minimal maintenance to keep software that relies on it working. There
+is no active development or planned feature improvement. For any new projects it is recommended
+to use the [Spectator] library instead.
+
+For more details see the [Servo comparison] page in the Spectator docs.
+
+[Spectator]: https://github.com/Netflix/spectator
+[Servo comparison]: http://netflix.github.io/spectator/en/latest/intro/servo-comparison/
+
 # Servo: Application Metrics in Java
 
 > servo v. : WATCH OVER, OBSERVE
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 This has already been implemented inside of Netflix and most of our applications currently use it.
 
-# Project Details
+## Project Details
 
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