On Sun, May 14, 2023 at 11:38 AM Mukul Gandhi <muk...@apache.org> wrote: > > Hi Elliotte, > > On Sun, May 14, 2023 at 4:48 PM Elliotte Rusty Harold > <elh...@ibiblio.org> wrote: > > > The 2.7.3 release is broken and unusable without more manual effort by each > > project to patch the pom.xml. > > I've checked following sometime ago today, > > I've downloaded the currently published XalanJ 2.7.3 src distribution > from the link https://dlcdn.apache.org/xalan/xalan-j/source/ (file > xalan-j_2_7_3-src.zip).
You're demonstrating the problem. Knowing that one should start at https://dlcdn.apache.org/xalan/xalan-j/source/ instead of https://xml.apache.org/xalan-j/ is not a reasonable expectation. Starting at https://xml.apache.org/xalan-j/ (likely first result from a google search) I find https://xml.apache.org/xalan-j/builds.html#builds which only talks about Xalan-J 2.7.1 and says we require **JDK 1.2.2**. There are many other parts of this official page that are out of date or incomplete. >From that page I eventually find myself in the Apache subversion repo, which might help. But I don't see anything about git or github anywhere. Is the svn repo up to date? Can someone contribute a patch to it? I hope so, but at this point most volunteer developers have given up and gone elsewhere. TBH, there are multiple tasks that need to be done before this repo can plausibly attract new contributors. A few of these might be able to be done in parallel, by someone who's familiar with the current setup. However as we've seen in the recent past even very experienced developers who've worked on Xalan in the past can't get as far as merging an approved PR. When a system in this fragile a state, it is imperative to fix the existing foundation before taking on any other work that is not directly focused on making the system maintainable. Migrating to Maven is a large, optional change that does not address the core issues. Attempting to migrate before there's a complete repo with passing tests, continuous integration, a functioning release, and documentation of all the above, will simply compound the problems. -- Elliotte Rusty Harold elh...@ibiblio.org --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@xalan.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@xalan.apache.org
