Hi Michael, On Mon, Apr 16, 2018 at 7:43 PM, Michael Glavassevich <mrgla...@ca.ibm.com> wrote: > > If you're planning on updating xml-apis.jar and its source archive, we'll > need to have an XML Commons External release first. It's been a long time > since we've had one of those but there should be some instructions on the > XML Commons website. > > As per my findings, the XML Commons website doesn't seem to have enough information to make a new XML Commons External release. *I think, I'd be fine to make 2.12.0 release with existing xml-apis.jar & the corresponding source archive. I don't see any risks associated with that.* Please let me know if you disagree.
I'd suggest, at some later time (or now?) you can independently make a new XML Commons External release, and we can associate it with the appropriate Xerces release (a release after 2.12.0, or if we're stuck just now then 2.12.0). -- Regards, Mukul Gandhi