I think many are aware that the ASF has put in place a system that allows other sites to mirror the files available for download from the various Apache web sites. This is all goodness - it allows people to download from closer to home at the same time as reducing the bandwidth utilisation for the main Apache site.
The XML project is lagging a bit behind other projects in moving to this new scheme, and it's time we bit the bullet and made this happen. The aim is to try to do this within 2 months - i.e. by the end of October.
Of the various XML sub-projects, fop, forrest and security have already moved over to the new system. That leaves :
Xerces-J Xerces-C Xerces-P Xalan-J Xalan-C Batik Commons Xindice AxKit
It would be great if the PMC members could look at what needs to be done to make this happen for their sub-projects. If people could report back to General as to who is going to take on what and then how they are going, I will keep a status list.
Having done this for the xml-security sub-project, I can vouch for this not being a huge piece of work :>.
Instructions for what needs to be done can be found at :
http://cvs.apache.org/~bodewig/mirror.html
and
http://www.apache.org/dev/mirrors.html
We probably also want to put together a general download page for the project - but one thing at a time :>.
Cheers,
Berin
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