Mukul>I feel that, XalanJ should not move to Attic sometime soon

+1

I wonder if we can fix CVE in xalan-j, and then let it rest, move to attic or 
whatever.

The CVE is trivial to fix, so I belive it would be vey nice of Xalan PMC to 
release a fix.

I came from Apache JMeter here (see 
https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=66171 ), and it turns out that 
JMeter has non-trivial use of xalan-j.
Of course, we could spend some time on replacing xalan-j with something else,
however, it is cumbersome, and it would be way easier if we could have more 
time doing that.

Just in case: CVE raises red flags, so having that "CVE pressure" is not really 
helpful for JMeter devs.

Gary> Before you consider volunteering to perform a release, I would
Gary> encourage you to try locally, building a release is a lot more than
Gary> compiling a jar ;-) and there might not be anyone available to help
Gary> once you hit a snag, IOW, pitfalls, and time sink.

Gary, I was able to build xalan-j on my macOS 12 with Java 11 with minor 
updates like "bump minimal Java from 1.3 to 1.7, and remove explicit boot 
classpath overrides".
I spent less than 15 minutes to get xalan-j_2_7_2-bin.tar.gz, 
xalan-j_2_7_2-src.tar.gz.

So I don't understand what do you mean by "try locally". It just works.
Well, -src.tar.gz contains several jar files which are no-no under the current 
ASF policy,
however, I believe the jars could be downloaded from the Internet via small Ant 
task,
so it would not take much time to rip off the jars from src.tar.gz and still 
keep the sources buildable.

So would you please consider releasing xalan-j to fix the CVE?

Vladimir

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