Hello All, Let us consider retiring the Apache Xalan project to the Attic, or at least its Xalan-J component.
While it saddens me that I've not taken the time to continue maintaining this project, I see the following: - No one remembers or knows _for sure_ how to release components like Xalan-J, specifically what svn, now git branches are for what. I did the last Xalan-J release a long time ago and it would take a lot of effort to gather up the pieces to do another, and Xalan-J should really have a maintenance release. I don't want to take my FOSS time to do this ATM. - I have pinged this very list in the past for help on building Xalan-J and received zero feedback, so I can only conclude that, aside from me for the Xalan-J side at least, there is no institutional knowledge left. - There are a number of Xalan-J Jira tickets that have been left dying on the vine, some with patches even. - Very little if any Xalan-J user activity, which might be self-fulfilling due to project inactivity - On the Xalan-C side, there has been some activity so there might be hope there. I've never worked on the Xalan-C component so I cannot say anything about it. - We could retire the Xalan-J component and keep Xalan-C alive, thus keeping this PMC alive. What are your thoughts? Before you consider volunteering to perform a release, I would encourage you to try locally, building a release is a lot more than compiling a jar ;-) and there might not be anyone available to help once you hit a snag, IOW, pitfalls, and time sink. Gary (PMC Chair) --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@xalan.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@xalan.apache.org
