Hi! Seeing that a number of patches I submitted to the Xalan-J Jira still haven't even been commented on, that there hasn't been a commit to the Xalan-J repo in a LONG time, and that there seems little Java-related activity on this mailing list here either, I'm very concerned about the status of the project. As I wrote brefore, I'd be willing to help.
Today I had a look at http://xml.apache.org/xalan-j/charter.html and found out that in order to commit stuff to the repo myself, 1. I'd have to be nominated as a committer by some active committer, 2. I'd have to be approved by 50% of the active committers, 3. some other active committer would have to review my patches. So the key question is: Who are the active committers for Xalan-J? Or is there no distinction between the Xalan-J and the Xalan-C subproject? Would C programmers be willing to review Java patches? How could I contact the active committers for Xalan-J in case they don't respond to mailings such as this one here? How are my chances they'll make me a committer if it seems they don't even bother look at my patches? On the other hand, how are the chances of the Xalan-J project to survive in the long term if contributions aren't incorporated into the mainline source tree? I might be missing something, but if my observations about a complete lack of activities for Xalan-J is correct, and if furthermore Xalan-J and Xalan-C are considered separate subprojects, then it seems that according to section 8.3 of the charta there are NO active Xalan-J committers. Thus the whole mechanism for nominating new committers will fail. How would the Xalan PMC wish to deal with such a situation? Greetings, Martin von Gagern
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