+1 to items 1,2,3,5,6 below (binding, PMC member).  Yay Xalan!

-1 to item 4 below.  I would be very uncomfortable with only 2 people
on a PMC; in my mind, an absolute minimum would be 5 existing and
reasonably active committers.  Also, I doubt the board will accept a
PMC that small.  

Work with Santiago and suggest a larger list.  Obviously ask people if
they want to serve before sending the list out, but it's really not
that much work.  And remember that committers can change code, but only
the PMC can officially set project direction, procedures, releases,
etc.

And don't be held back by the existing xml.apache.org charter - I don't
think it describes things nearly as well as it should.  Please do
re-write Xalan's charter as needed!

(Procedural notes: I think this vote should be to get the XML PMC to
agree to the change.  My -1 on 4 will automatically change to a +1 once
you have at least 5 suitable names for that item.  Then we'll need a
volunteer to actually draft a resolution performing the change to
submit to the board for their next monthly meeting, where it can be
voted in officially.)

--- Brian Minchau <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I'm formally calling for a vote on this proposition which is to
> transform
> Xalan from a sub-project of the Apache top-level XML project into a
> top-level Apache project of its own.
> 
> 1.  The top-level Xalan project will contain the existing Xalan-J and
> Xalan-C projects.
> 2. The top-level Xalan project will initially contain no
> sub-projects.
> 3. The initial committers for this project will be the existing
> committers
> of the Xalan-J and Xalan-C.
> 4. The initial PMC members for this project will be Santiago
> Pericas-Geertsen and Brian Minchau, who are the existing PMC members
> for
> Xalan.
> 5. The initial PMC Chairperson will be Brian Minchau.
> 6. The initial mission statement will be
> http://xml.apache.org/mission.html, although terms such as
> "xml.apache.org
> project" should be read as "Xalan project".


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- Shane

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