1. I'm the only person who has touched the ws site. If you want to be
annoyed, be annoyed at me.

2. It never occurred to me, when I started, that Axis would, at this late
date, have a 'web site' consisting of a raw HTML link to the old content on
the WS site. I didn't set out to disturb anyone or anything. It was only
after I had put considerable effort into initial cleanup that I discovered,
to my distress, that Axis had no site. And, and that time, I sent a query to
the axis list, and received no replies at all.

3. I appear to be the only person with any time or energy available for the
web site on the WS project, such as that project is. I cannot accept
responsibility as the historical curator of the old Axis content.
Personally, I don't think that history is very important or interesting;
what is important is making the current resources available to the current
interested parties.  I appreciate that some may find this an extreme
position. However, the Apache Way, as I understand it, is that the direction
is set by those available to do the work.

4. In my opinion, the WS PMC is only viable if there are a group of people
who are, in fact, prepared to collaborate on common goals. If the actual
state of affairs is that there is one XmlSchema developer and some
sympathizers, and ditto for Neethi and the others, then it should, again in
my opinion, finish fisioning. Fission would be fine with me. I'd set up an
adequate XmlSchema web presence, period.

5. I have no objection to having some bit of info on a WS project front page
that cites history and links to the successor projects, and I would ask any
interested party to contribute that content to the Confluence section which
is going to become the source of the WS project -- if the project survives
that long. I have no objection to someone supplying me a PATCH to the
existing Forrest site to serve the same purpose: as a committer on the
project I will be more than happy to apply it and publish.

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