To be fair, there were committers from Sun too and at least two people on the PMC who I believe never worked for either.
Others in the community have had a long time (over a decade) to volunteer if they genuinely wanted to get involved. If folks are emerging now who want to pick up the ball there would probably need to be a new PMC. Thanks. Michael Glavassevich XML Parser Development IBM Toronto Lab E-mail: mrgla...@ca.ibm.com E-mail: mrgla...@apache.org David Carver <d_a_car...@yahoo.com> wrote on 05/20/2011 12:51:40 PM: > I just cloned the xalan-j trunk, and there have been no active commits > to Xalan-J in the last 17 months. > > So for all intents and purposes, I would suspect that none of the > existing PMC members for Xalan-J are actively involved. The problem > with Xalan and Xalan-J in general was the lack of project diversity, as > it was primarily staffed by IBM supplied committers, and once their > interests moved elsewhere development pretty much stopped on on Xalan-J > at least. > > So I doubt there are 3 active members of the PMC to do anything. > > Is there anything in the community by laws that allows nomination of new > PMC or committers if an existing set of PMC members goes inactive? > > Dave > > On 05/20/2011 12:41 PM, Bertrand Delacretaz wrote: > > Hi Steve, > > > > Thanks for your message, comments inline. > > > > On Thu, May 19, 2011 at 10:48 PM, Steve Hathaway<shath...@e-z.net> wrote: > >> ...I am not a member of the Xalan PMC, but would like to help create > >> an official release of the Xalan-C++ version 1.11 library. I am hoping > >> to have the documentation ready for review in July and ready to > >> publish in September.... > > Ok - good too see that there's some activity. > > > >> I am unsure of what you need for the ASF board meeting... > >> ....At present I am relying on the few remaining committers to apply > >> patches to the Xalan-C++ SVN repository.... > > What we need from the board's point of view is a PMC with at least 3 > > active members, so as to be able to vote on releases, and a responsive > > PMC chair who communicates with the board according to the PMC report > > schedule (usually every 3 months). The last board report we got from > > Xalan was in November 2011 [1], and was rejected as insufficiently > > detailed, so that needs to be fixed. > > > > It also seems to me like there are no active moderators for the > > priv...@xalan.apache.org mailing list, messages that we sent there > > have not appeared in the archives. > > > > Do you think the project can motivate existing PMC members to fill > > these gaps? Or are there only committers remaining with no active PMC > > members? > > > > -Bertrand > > > > [1] http://www.apache.org/foundation/records/minutes/2010/ > board_minutes_2010_11_17.txt > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > > To unsubscribe, e-mail: xalan-dev-unsubscr...@xml.apache.org > > For additional commands, e-mail: xalan-dev-h...@xml.apache.org > > > > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: xalan-dev-unsubscr...@xml.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: xalan-dev-h...@xml.apache.org
