Hi David,
The usual course of action is to nominate the Xalan project for the
Attic.
Craig
On Dec 11, 2010, at 11:36 AM, David Bertoni wrote:
Sorry, I missed a few addresses on the original email!
Dave
-------- Original Message --------
Subject: Re: Please resubmit a report (was: ASF Board Meeting
Summary - November 17, 2010)
Date: Sat, 11 Dec 2010 11:34:16 -0800
From: David Bertoni <[email protected]>
To: [email protected]
On 11/19/2010 3:56 PM, Shane Curcuru wrote:
The board discussed the most recent Xalan board report and did not
accept it as it does not give a sufficient picture of the health of
the
project. Please plan on submitting a replacement report for next
month's
meeting on 15-Dec.
In particular, a sense of how the committer community is doing, in
terms
of continuing as a healthy and diverse community. The lack of
releases
and lack of significant reports about community (like new
committers or
PMC members) over a long period of time are a concern; one would hope
this would lead a PMC to think about - and report on - the future
of the
project.
Hey Shane,
Sorry I've been late getting back to you. I don't think there's much
of
a future for the Xalan project in terms of getting active committers.
I've tried to encourage a number of people to contribute patches to
work
toward committer status, but without any success.
Also, after 11 years of working on Xalan-C and Xalan-J, I'm pretty
much
tapped out. Since we were unable to get enough commitment to start
working on XSLT 2.0, I don't think there much more that we can do with
the current version of Xalan, which only supports XSLT 1.0.
I'm happy to continue answering questions on the last and to
contribute
bug fixes to the SVN repository, but I can't work on XSLT 2.0 due to
time constraints and IP constraints because of my work on the XML
functionality in DB2. Also, the PMC has been pretty much inactive,
since
most people have moved on to other projects, or are similarly
time-constrained or IP-constrained.
What's the usual course of action in this case? Should Xalan go into
hibernation?
Dave
Craig L Russell
Architect, Oracle
http://db.apache.org/jdo
408 276-5638 mailto:[email protected]
P.S. A good JDO? O, Gasp!
