Martin von Gagern wrote:
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?
That's a very good question. I'll send out an email to the PMC and see
who is still active. Neither Xalan-J nor Xalan-C is very active at this
point.
Or is there no distinction between the Xalan-J and the Xalan-C subproject?
Would C programmers be willing to review Java patches?
I could, but I'm not a Java expert, and I don't think I have commit
access to the Xalan-J part of the repository. I have done some work on
Xalan-J in the past, but it would take some time for me to get up to
speed again.
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?
New contributors are always welcome.
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?
I believe we are still one project at this point. I'm the PMC chair, so
I'll send out an email and see if anyone responds.
Thanks!
Dave
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