You are right that payments might help. Do you consider it to be valid for the case of “getting xalan released”?
Do you think $100 is a fair amount for motivating the committers? Frankly speaking, I would not bother for the paperwork when it comes to *receiving* $100. Would $3000 motivate the committers enough to get Xalan released? Well, may be it would be the case. However, what is the actual effort required to get it released? Run build.sh, push the resulting zip to the server, send vote email, agree and send an announcement? Do you really consider $3000 to be a fair price for that? Well, I do not have a spare $3000 to throw on cases like “get three committers execute a shell script” :-/ I do not ask anything extra besides just releasing what already exists. PS. It is interesting how opensource organisations like the ASF happen to create closed (for contribution) communities like Xalan, and Log4j 1.x. Both teams happen to ignore contributions, they happen to ignore fixing CVEs, and they happen to ignore adding committers. Vladimir -- Vladimir
