I believe they got uploaded by other ASF committers / members so they're official in that sense. It just wasn't done by Xerces developers.
There was no policy decision. It's more of a motivation issue. The developers (past and present) haven't shown much interest in Maven. Of course anyone interested is welcome to drive it. Just needs a volunteer to do the work. Thanks. Michael Glavassevich XML Technologies and WAS Development IBM Toronto Lab E-mail: mrgla...@ca.ibm.com E-mail: mrgla...@apache.org "Mark H. Wood" <mw...@iupui.edu> wrote on 05/08/2018 09:22:07 AM: > From: "Mark H. Wood" <mw...@iupui.edu> > To: j-users@xerces.apache.org > Date: 05/08/2018 09:22 AM > Subject: Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT]: Apache Xerces-J 2.12.0 now available > > On Tue, May 08, 2018 at 10:59:09AM +0530, Mukul Gandhi wrote: > > On Tue, May 8, 2018 at 6:19 AM, Dave Brosius <dbros...@apache.org> wrote: > > > > > > xercesImpl.jar has still yet to show up on maven central, was this an > > > oversight? > > > > > Michael Glavassevich, replied to a question on same topic on list > > j-...@xerces.apache.org a while ago as follows, > > > > "Maven has never been part of our release process. Other people from the > > community would have uploaded those previous releases." > > > > I hope that could answer the question. > > Interesting that someone in the community has been sending up various > artifacts under the groupId "xerces" since 2005. It certainly > *looked* official. How disappointing. > > Was there a policy decision not to release Maven artifacts, or does it > just need someone to do the work? I could do the work. But I don't > want to perpetrate yet-another-confusing-unofficial-release. > > -- > Mark H. Wood > Lead Technology Analyst > > University Library > Indiana University - Purdue University Indianapolis > 755 W. Michigan Street > Indianapolis, IN 46202 > 317-274-0749 > www.ulib.iupui.edu
