Hello Mukul: Thank you for preparing the release candidate.
The VOTE email should contain the SVN revision of the folder so we can be precise on what we're voting on, especially when we progress from one release candidate to the next. For example, here's an example of a VOTE email from Apache Commons: https://lists.apache.org/thread/dn7k4xxz02v60g1bh6zjo4k9sljtk9qn I am testing the source zip file. I usually verify a SHA512 file using `shasum --check` on macOS, but in this case, I couldn't: shasum --check xalan-j_xslt3.0_src_alpha_rc2.zip.sha512 shasum: xalan-j_xslt3.0_src_alpha_rc2.zip.sha512: no properly formatted SHA checksum lines found Eyeballing the SHA512 file by comparing it with _seems_ ok: shasum -a 512 xalan-j_xslt3.0_src_alpha_rc2.zip 52e51d3cf20ad4c84391ac66e85e069023f2cb72fbda46b73041060f3dbb19c3110344c1888a8101ce117003f1da2325585d1d69498acc698e96719c236d58ac xalan-j_xslt3.0_src_alpha_rc2.zip - ASC file OK - NOTICE file OK - TODO: The source zip is missing a RELEASE-NOTES.txt file of some kind. - Why is this file included: LICENSE.xpath31_types-1.0.html ? A release notes file would help explain. Having the file in HTML is unhelpful IMO, especially since our license is in plain text. - Maybe rename README to BUILDING.txt, consider using Markdown (BUILDING.md). The instructions in README don't work: mvn clean install test -Dtest=AllXalanXSLT3Tests [INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [INFO] BUILD FAILURE [INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [INFO] Total time: 0.711 s [INFO] Finished at: 2026-02-28T08:29:09-05:00 [INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [ERROR] Failed to execute goal on project xalan-java: Could not resolve dependencies for project org.apache.xsl:xalan-java:jar:3.0.1-SNAPSHOT [ERROR] dependency: org.apache.xerces:xalan-java_xpath31_types:jar:0.1 (compile) [ERROR] Could not find artifact org.apache.xerces:xalan-java_xpath31_types:jar:0.1 in xalan_maven_repos (file:///Users/garygregory/rc/x/libs) [ERROR] Could not find artifact org.apache.xerces:xalan-java_xpath31_types:jar:0.1 in central (https://repo.maven.apache.org/maven2) IMO we should provide build instructions such that users can build from scratch, whether they are applications or downstream distributions (like some Linux distributions like to build everything from source). HTH, Gary On Mon, Feb 23, 2026 at 12:00 PM Mukul Gandhi <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hi all, > I've prepared Apache Xalan-J's XSLT 3.0 alpha RC2, and have > published that to location, > https://dist.apache.org/repos/dist/dev/xalan/j/xslt3.0/alpha/rc2/. > > Xalan implementation's compliance level with W3C XSLT 3.0 test suite > is available here, > https://github.com/apache/xalan-java/blob/xalan-j_xslt3.0_mvn/src/test/java/org/apache/xalan/tests/w3c/xslt3/result/w3c_xslt3_testsuite_xalan-j_result.xml > > Xalan's XSLT 3.0 test suite results are as follows (this is mentioned > as well within Xalan XSLT 3.0 dev repos README document), > Tests run: 1401, Failures: 0, Errors: 0, Skipped: 0 > > Requesting Xalan PMC and committers, to please review and vote for this RC. > > Here's my +1. > > Great work everyone. > > > -- > Regards, > Mukul Gandhi > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] > For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected] > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected]
