Just a reminder: You do not need to be a committee to contribute to the Xalan project. As I've just demonstrated, you can work on a fork rather than a branch, then submit a pull request against that fork for the committers/approvers to evaluate.
So if Maven build is your top priority, _you_ can implement it and propose it. You can even invite folks to collaborate on it. Or you can pay someone to do this. Open source in action. If you need it now, make it happen. Otherwise you wait for someone else to be interested enough make it happen. The Xalan _project_ is a big one, but it's build is relatively straightforward compared to some I've worked on. The biggest problem I see in moving to Mavin would be resolving jarfile dependencies; some of them won't be in Maven and the problem recurses. As noted, making the project's Mavin _release_ cleaner is a separable question, and that's the one that seems to be the biggest ask here. It's probably worth making that its own issue and prioritizing it higher. See earlier comments about how to actually make it happen. For what it's worth, I can probably be bribed to shift my own priorities and invest more hours. Though I admit that I'd have to bootstrap more Mavin to address these specific issues properly; I have maintained Mavin builds but haven't written a nontrivial one de novo. And as I say, some of those jarfiles are themselves not in Mavin; there's at least one whose origin we're not completely sure of and a direct replacement may not exist. -- /_ Joe Kesselman (he/him/his) -/ _) My Alexa skill for New Music/New Sounds fans: / https://www.amazon.com/dp/B09WJ3H657/ () Plaintext Ribbon Campaign /\ Stamp out HTML mail! ________________________________ From: Vladimir Sitnikov <sitnikov.vladi...@gmail.com> Sent: Sunday, May 14, 2023 10:48:54 AM To: dev@xalan.apache.org <dev@xalan.apache.org> Subject: Re: Update of xalan 2.7.3 at Maven Central repository wiped metadata for previous versions from maven-metadata.xml https://repo.maven.apache.org/maven2/xalan/xalan/maven-metadata.xml Stanimir> Currently I see that 2.7.2 is not listed there, and I think it is an issue. Vladimir -- Vladimir
