+1 Thanks Sanka
On Thu, Oct 30, 2008 at 5:02 PM, Davanum Srinivas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Team, > > Can we please VOTE in Benson as a ws committer, given the track record > and the need going forward. > > thanks, > dims > > On Thu, Oct 30, 2008 at 11:01 AM, Benson Margulies > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > The CXF project is highly dependent on XmlSchema. So much so that we, > > collectively, and I, individually, are willing to apply some > > significant effort to it. > > > > While we run into point issues from time to time, we would really like > > to see a version of XmlSchema that has some significant overall > > modifications that are not really suitable to patches submitted on > > JIRA entries. > > > > Some of these are: > > > > 1) Move to Java 5 and use Generics to reduce the cast burden. > > 2) Improve performance. > > 3) Make the API more friendly to building schema from scratch. It's > > not like it's impossible, but there are a number of areas involving > > schema collections where the current situation leads us to slow and > > clumsy code. > > 4) Move the class model closer to the abstract data model of XmlSchema > > and further away from just representing the surface form of the XML > > representation. In particular, make it harder to create invalid > > schemata from the API. > > > > Just for experimental purposes, I made a branch of the current > > XmlSchema trunk in the CXF sandbox > > (https://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/cxf/sandbox/benson/xmlschema/XmlSchema > ) > > and did a first pass at the first half of 'step 1' above. Any readers > > of this can co that tree and look around at my work and criticize it. > > (At CXF, we allow any committer from any other project to commit in > > our sandbox, which aids us in inter-project integrations.) > > > > I would be happy to move this effort to a similiar sandbox in the > > XmlSchema universe. > > > > I would be happy to wake up and discover myself a committer over here, > > as well, and just do this work in a branch for the purpose. That would > > allow this work to be just another fully visible activity of > > WSCOMMONS, and perhaps that would attract some other contributors. > > > > While campaigning for committer-hood is generally bad form, I would > > submit for your consideration: > > > > WSCOMMONS-369 (pending patch) > > WSCOMMONS-272 (applied patch) > > WSCOMMONS-270 (applied patch) > > > > and some ancient discussion on the list, I think. > > > > > > -- > Davanum Srinivas :: http://davanum.wordpress.com > -- Sanka Samaranayake WSO2 Inc. http://sankas.blogspot.com/ http://www.wso2.org/
