According to Maven Central, there are 495 artifacts with dependencies on XMLBeans. Many of the projects have last update dates in the last year. This is compared with Apache POI which is used by 795 artifacts. It seems usage of XMLBeans is still significant.
On Fri, Mar 2, 2018 at 3:25 PM, Craig Russell <[email protected]> wrote: > A project is not just code. In addition to the community (duh), there are > web pages, mail lists, reporting requirements, issue management, > build/release tooling, and various infra bits that need to be maintained. > > I agree with Jan that if POI is the only project that (currently) uses > Xmlbeans, it will be far easier to "simply" import whatever is relevant > from the project directly into POI. And if it makes life easier, you can > even repackage (rename) the build artifacts. > > Craig > > > On Mar 2, 2018, at 6:17 AM, Jan Iversen <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > > > > Sent from my iPad > > > >> On 2 Mar 2018, at 14:59, PJ Fanning <[email protected]> > wrote: > >> > >> Apache POI is used by Apache Tika and Apache SOLR. > >> The XmlBeans build is pretty complicated and outdated and changing its > package names is going to be fairly hard (in short, XmlBeans is used to > autogenerate some of the code shipped in XmlBeans). > > The question was not who uses POI, but who would also (if any) use > XmlBeans. > > > > The beauty of my proposal is that you do not need to change naming or > other stuff. You simply put it in your codebase in a separate directory. > The reason is that you do not release XmlBeans, you release POI containing > (not using, as you have been doing) XmlBeans. > > > > In case you want to restart the project, you need to change name as well > as go through the process of asking to be a TLP. > > > > rgds > > jan i > > > >> > >> On Monday 26 February 2018, 20:07:49 GMT, PJ Fanning < > [email protected]> wrote: > >> > >> Hi, > >> There is general interest in the Apache POI PMC and general Contributor > community in forming a new PMC for Apache XMLBeans. POI has a dependency on > XMLBeans and there are some fixes that we would like to apply to > XMLBeans.Some of the discussion appears in these threads. > >> http://apache-poi.1045710.n5.nabble.com/publishing-poi- > xmlbeans-jars-td5730234.html > >> http://apache-poi.1045710.n5.nabble.com/DISCUSS-Getting-a- > fixed-version-of-XMLBeans-td5729378.htmlhttp://apache- > poi.1045710.n5.nabble.com/XMLBeans-in-4-0-0-release-td5729862.html > >> > >> > >> If we can get 3 or more people to form a new XMLBeans PMC, would it be > feasible to reopen the XMLBeans svn for new commits? > >> Regards,PJ > > Craig L Russell > Secretary, Apache Software Foundation > [email protected] http://db.apache.org/jdo > >
