On 1/4/07, Matt Benson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Hi, for those of you who haven't encountered me
lurking on commons-dev for the past year or two, I'm a
member of the Ant PMC and a commons user. I'm also a
committer to commons-openpgp in the sandbox but
haven't done much there (yet?). :( Finally, I
suffered a burst of commons-collections contributions
last summer or sometime thereabouts.
Now that I've (hopefully sufficiently) introduced
myself, I'll get to the point: I see that there is
some user demand for a new release of jxpath; indeed I
am a user who would also benefit from a release,
always preferable to explaining to your peers why you
insist on using nightlies... ;) I'd like to offer to
help with whatever tasks are necessary to push jxpath
to a 1.3 release. I think Dmitri still lurks here but
best I can tell he's got other things to do. Plus I
suppose you eventually don't really feel like
continuing to look at the same old code, impressive
though the jxpath code is...
Can somebody (Henri?) offer advice on what I and/or
other members of the (user and/or Apache committer)
community might do to get the ball rolling?
My general spiel is that someone who isn't a committer to a project
can heavily influence a release - and then I explain how unit tests
and patches to the JIRA, release organization on a wiki and prodding
of the mail list can be 90% of the work in getting something out.
http://wiki.apache.org/jakarta-taglibs/Standard_1%2e1%2e3 is an
example - bit of a limited one as I'm a Taglibs committer, but I am
taking two roles in it, external user and then later committer closing
issues and applying patches.
In your case as an existing ASF committer - I'm +1 to your being a
Jakarta committer and getting stuck in on getting a jxpath release
out. If Ant hadn't have left Jakarta right at the beginning of the TLP
migration you'd have been a Jakarta committer anyway. [See vote thread
:) ].
Hen
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