Sounds good Michael, For the experimental 1.1 branch, should we perhaps have a code freeze period to stabilize it and run some tests over it (1 week maybe)? I think the experimental branch would become more attractive if some conformance numbers could be claimed and we could also have some examples showing how to use the new features - of course, only the examples of the things that actualy went into the branch at that point. =)
Thx, Arthur De Magalhaes Software Engineer - XML Parser & XCI Development IBM Canada - Toronto Lab Phone: 905-413-2993 T/L 313-2993 E-mail: [email protected] Hiranya Jayathilaka <[email protected]> 10/17/2009 01:35 AM Please respond to [email protected] To [email protected] cc Subject Re: Release plan for Xerces-J 2.10.0 +1 to the release plan. Good timing indeed. Thanks, Hiranya On Wed, Oct 14, 2009 at 11:25 AM, Michael Glavassevich < [email protected]> wrote: Hi all, I think it's about time we had a release. It's been over two years since the last one and during that time we've made significant progress in a number of areas: * XML Schema 1.1 * JAXP 1.4 * StAX event API (javax.xml.stream.events) * Element Traversal API [1] (org.w3c.dom.ElementTraversal) * Unicode normalization and normalization checking among other enhancements. Before we can do the Xerces release, we're first going to need to get out an official release of the JAXP 1.4 APIs from XML Commons. The coding has been done for awhile now. Just needs some documentation updates and a release candidate to vote on. If anyone would like to help out with that it would be appreciated. Hoping we could wrap that up and roll out releases from the other branches of XML Commons over the next month. Then we could start preparing the Xerces-J release. There's been a bit of chatter about having one in December. How does Friday, December 18th sound? Just before the end of the year. I'm thinking that we'd release two sets of binaries for 2.10.0, one built from the trunk and an experimental one from the XML Schema 1.1 branch so that the community could start to try out the new features: assertions, conditional type assessment, etc... with an understanding that things could change in the future along with the spec which isn't final yet. What do folks think? Thanks. [1] http://www.w3.org/TR/ElementTraversal/ Michael Glavassevich XML Parser Development IBM Toronto Lab E-mail: [email protected] E-mail: [email protected] -- Hiranya Jayathilaka Software Engineer; WSO2 Inc.; http://wso2.org E-mail: [email protected]; Mobile: +94 77 633 3491 Blog: http://techfeast-hiranya.blogspot.com
