Roman, Gary Gregory here, PMC member.
Your analysis is spot on, there is very little activity on the project. A few years back, I RM'd release 2.7.2 which was a semi obscure exercise as no one was or is around to answer questions as to what branch means what and details about the build. There are pending patches and some interest to see these through, and I would not mind keeping on pushing on. BUT... Stepping back, it is not clean to me how far the Oracle JRE has diverged from Xalan or how relevant Xalan is now compared to the Oracle JRE and Saxon (http://saxon.sourceforge.net/). It seems Xalan has fallen quite far behind Saxon for example. I could see that releasing a 2.7.3 with a bug fixes would help folks. Gary On Sun, Oct 7, 2018 at 8:59 AM Roman Shaposhnik <r...@apache.org> wrote: > Hi! > > one question that got discussed at the ASF board meeting > last month is that while Xalan user community still shows > interest in the project, the PMC activity seems to be somewhat > lacking. > > As you probably are aware every ASF project requires at least > 3 active PMC members in order to be considered active. My > cursory review of mailing list and JIRA activity shows that out > of the current 7 PMC members: > dbertoni David N Bertoni > gareth Gareth Reakes > ggregory Gary D. Gregory > mrglavas Michael Glavassevich > sanjiva Sanjiva Weerawarana > shathaway Steven J. Hathaway > twilliams Tim Williams > only a few (AKA less than 3 ;-)) show some level of activity. > > If my analysis is wrong -- please let me know (by identifying > yourself as an active PMC member). If not -- I'd love > to see if there's enough interest in user community to keep > PMC active. > > Please let me know either way. > > Thanks, > Roman. >
