Michael, Gary, thanks for your replies -- it seems we've got at least 2 active PMC members on the project.
We still need the 3d one however ;-) I'm also curious what Steven Hathaway is up to, since he's listed as a current chair and hopefully he's still OK with those responsibilities. Thanks, Roman. On Tue, Oct 9, 2018 at 10:51 AM Michael Glavassevich <mrgla...@gmail.com> wrote: > > There are at least a couple people who have shown an interest in contributing > who in my opinion should probably be elected as committers and to the PMC. > When the PMC got rebooted several years ago I think a lot of us were just > enthusiasts for the project (e.g. I care because Xerces depends on Xalan's > serializer) who weren't going to be very active from a development > perspective, but would help bring new people on who wanted to contribute to > Xalan. > > On Sun, Oct 7, 2018 at 12:19 PM Gary Gregory <garydgreg...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> Roman, >> >> Gary Gregory here, PMC member. >> >> Your analysis is spot on, there is very little activity on the project. >> >> A few years back, I RM'd release 2.7.2 which was a semi obscure exercise as >> no one was or is around to answer questions as to what branch means what and >> details about the build. >> >> There are pending patches and some interest to see these through, and I >> would not mind keeping on pushing on. BUT... >> >> Stepping back, it is not clean to me how far the Oracle JRE has diverged >> from Xalan or how relevant Xalan is now compared to the Oracle JRE and Saxon >> (http://saxon.sourceforge.net/). >> >> It seems Xalan has fallen quite far behind Saxon for example. >> >> I could see that releasing a 2.7.3 with a bug fixes would help folks. >> >> Gary >> >> On Sun, Oct 7, 2018 at 8:59 AM Roman Shaposhnik <r...@apache.org> wrote: >>> >>> Hi! >>> >>> one question that got discussed at the ASF board meeting >>> last month is that while Xalan user community still shows >>> interest in the project, the PMC activity seems to be somewhat >>> lacking. >>> >>> As you probably are aware every ASF project requires at least >>> 3 active PMC members in order to be considered active. My >>> cursory review of mailing list and JIRA activity shows that out >>> of the current 7 PMC members: >>> dbertoni David N Bertoni >>> gareth Gareth Reakes >>> ggregory Gary D. Gregory >>> mrglavas Michael Glavassevich >>> sanjiva Sanjiva Weerawarana >>> shathaway Steven J. Hathaway >>> twilliams Tim Williams >>> only a few (AKA less than 3 ;-)) show some level of activity. >>> >>> If my analysis is wrong -- please let me know (by identifying >>> yourself as an active PMC member). If not -- I'd love >>> to see if there's enough interest in user community to keep >>> PMC active. >>> >>> Please let me know either way. >>> >>> Thanks, >>> Roman.
