It is quite possible that 1/3 of the email traffic it was me... Sorry, the past year has been... complicated. I am still trying to get myself back on a schedule and carve out time for Xalan.
First priority, I think, is that belated release. We were going to do a release from just before the Maven cutover, and then commit to Maven on the following release. The one part of the maven build that is still incomplete is building xalan-test into the distribution archive files; that should be straightforward, but it is annoying and currently would require that maven trigger an Ant build for that code. Question: has the 3.0 branch been moved to a Maven build yet? I can't speak for anyone else, but I would find it somewhat disconcerting if the two code streams were using different build engines. This is presuming that we do indeed have consensus that we are moving to Maven. We seem to mostly have agreement on that, with one naysayer, and part of the reason that I tackled the task was that there were assertions that others were going to start installing additional build quality tools that ran in the maven environment. It did turn out to be a much bigger task then I had anticipated, and in retrospect I wouldn't have tackled it knowing that, but it's there and we need to decide whether we are going to commit to it or just fold the actual fixes back into the Ant stream. (Some of the assistance I got with maven was predicated on a promise that we were serious about the migration. I would hate to have misled people.) I believe we also have some pending pull requests that really need to be reviewed and acted upon. Plus, of course, continuing to whittle down the backlog. -- /_ Joe Kesselman (he/him/his) -/ _) My Alexa skill for New Music/New Sounds fans: / https://www.amazon.com/dp/B09WJ3H657/ Caveat: Opinionated old geezer with overcompensated writer's block. May be redundant, verbose, prolix, sesquipedalian, didactic, officious, or redundant. ________________________________ From: Gary D. Gregory <[email protected]> Sent: Sunday, November 10, 2024 10:47:06 AM To: [email protected] <[email protected]> Subject: [REPORT][DRAFT] Board report November 2024 Hi All, Below is the board report I plan to file, let me know if you there should be edits, additions, or removals. ## Description: Apache Xalan exists to promote the use of XSLT. We view XSLT (Extensible Stylesheet Language Transformations) as a compelling paradigm that transforms XML documents, thereby facilitating the exchange, transformation, and presentation of knowledge. The ability to transform XML documents into usable information has great potential to improve the functionality and use of information systems. We intend to build freely available XSLT processing components in order to engender such improvements. ## Project Status: Current project status: Ongoing with low activity. Issues for the board: None. ## Membership Data: Apache Xalan was founded 2004-09-30 (20 years ago) There are currently 57 committers and 5 PMC members in this project. The Committer-to-PMC ratio is roughly 8:1. Community changes, past quarter: - No new PMC members. Last addition was Joseph Kessselman on 2023-08-07. - No new committers. Last addition was Joseph Kessselman on 2023-06-29. ## Project Activity: We have not has a release of any components this release period. Work in on-going toward the addition of XSLT 3 functionality. ## Community Health: Email traffic has decreased a lot on the development list (by a third). By contrast, there has been an increase in Jira activity for bug reports for both the C and Java components. Overall the project has very low activity. Gary --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected]
