+1 (non-binding) for David Bertoni. Michael Glavassevich XML Parser Development IBM Toronto Lab E-mail: mrgla...@ca.ibm.com E-mail: mrgla...@apache.org
Henry Zongaro/Toronto/i...@ibmca wrote on 02/18/2009 02:17:12 PM: > > Hello. > > Brian Minchau/Toronto/i...@ibmca wrote on 2009-01-12 04:41:22 PM: > > I have been chairperson of Apache Xalan since about October of 2004. > > Four years and a few months. I'm sad to say that I must resign as > > chairperson of the project. > > > > I have started a leave of absence from my work of still undetermined > > duration, because of health reasons. At this time, it would be > > prudent to hand over chairmanship of Apache Xalan. Therefore, I'm > > obliged to resign from this position effective immediately. I trust > > that the other members of the Xalan PMC will work with the Board to > > find a replacement as expeditiously as possible. > > > > I'm staying as a PMC member for now, but I'm afraid I can't drive > > the choice of a replacement. > > I'd like to extend my belated personal thanks to Brian for all the > work he did as the chair of the Xalan project, and more so as a > contributor and committer, most significant of which was a rewrite > of the Xalan serializer that both the Xalan-J interpreter and XSLTC > processors use, and which the Xerces project uses for the DOM L3 > Save support in Xerces-J. > > But it seems Brian's trust may have been a bit misplaced, as the PMC > hasn't acted very quickly to elect a new chair. I'd like to make > amends for that by calling for a vote on a new PMC chair, to close > 25 February, 2008. According to section 5.6 of the Xalan Charter, > [1] the PMC elects a chair from within its own ranks by a simple > majority. Anyone on the PMC should feel free to vote for any PMC > member, including himself or herself. Committers and contributors > are welcome to express their views, but only the votes of PMC > members will be counted. Here are the names of all the Xalan PMC members: > > John Gentilin > Christine Li > Ramesh Mandava > Brian Minchau > Santiago Pericas-Geertsen > Henry Zongaro > > I'd like to open the voting by casting a +1 vote for David Bertoni > for chair of the Xalan PMC. David has long been the primary > contributor on the Xalan-C processor, and has often gotten involved > in discussion in the Xalan-Java side of things as well. David has > also been a member of the Xalan PMC since September 2007. As such, > I think he'd make an excellent PMC chair. > > Thanks, > > Henry > [1] http://xalan.apache.org/charter.html > ------------------------------------------------------------------ > Henry Zongaro > XML Transformation & Query Development > IBM Canada Lab T/L 313-6044; Phone +1 905 413-6044 > mailto:zong...@ca.ibm.com
