Re: xml-apis.jar & xml-commons-external-src.zip for 2.12.0 release

2018-04-17 Thread Mukul Gandhi 
Hi Michael,
   We've done all development and testing so far after 2.11.0 release,
using the xml-apis.jar file that is currently kept in the SVN "tools"
directory. That has proved to be correct.

I'll go ahead preparing 2.12.0 release using the current xml-apis.jar file.
People may report any issues, while I'm doing all this.

>


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Regards,
Mukul Gandhi

Re: xml-apis.jar & xml-commons-external-src.zip for 2.12.0 release

2018-04-16 Thread Mukul Gandhi 
Hi Michael,

On Mon, Apr 16, 2018 at 7:43 PM, Michael Glavassevich 
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).



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Regards,
Mukul Gandhi

Re: xml-apis.jar & xml-commons-external-src.zip for 2.12.0 release

2018-04-16 Thread Michael Glavassevich 
Hi Mukul,

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.

Thanks.

Michael Glavassevich
XML Technologies and WAS Development
IBM Toronto Lab
E-mail: mrgla...@ca.ibm.com
E-mail: mrgla...@apache.org

Mukul Gandhi  wrote on 04/16/2018 08:55:34 AM:
 
> Hi all,
> As per this link, http://xerces.apache.org/xerces2-j/faq-
> contributing.html#faq-2 (Release Preparation),
> 
> The 1st point says,
> "Ensure that the API code has been properly refreshed. That is, make
> sure that tools/xml-apis.jar and tools/xml-apis--src.zip reflect the
> state of the branch of xml-commons that contains the API set to 
> which the parser must conform."
> (the source archive is, xml-commons-external-src.zip in our SVN, 
> which is the file name we should use I think).
> 
> To do this, for 2.12.0 release I'm planning to create xml-apis.jar & 
> xml-commons-external-src.zip from the repository https://
> svn.apache.org/repos/asf/xerces/xml-commons/trunk/java/external. I 
> hope this would be right?
> 
> A related question, is it advisable to use the current files in SVN  
> tools/xml-apis.jar &  tools/xml-commons-external-src.zip for 2.12.0 
> release, instead of preparing new archives from  https://
> svn.apache.org/repos/asf/xerces/xml-commons/trunk/java/external? I 
> can see check-ins to  https://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/xerces/xml-
> commons/trunk/java/external, after 2.11.0 release.
> 
> If we have to prepare the mentioned API archives, from  https://
> svn.apache.org/repos/asf/xerces/xml-commons/trunk/java/external, I 
> think XML commons version for 2.12.0 release will be XML Commons 
> External 1.4.02?
> 
> Thanks for any answers.
> 
> -- 
> Regards,
> Mukul Gandhi