I've been following this list for months, and it amazes me that it has
taken the threat of moving the project to the Attic to realise that
there is a hole in the 3 PMC requirement to keep a project going.
According to Ohloh.net, the existing committers and PMC pretty much
abandonded the Xalan-J code base a couple of years ago. I personally
think a fork of Xalan would have a better chance of getting off the
ground outside of Apache, and then bringing that project back to Apache
once it has established itself. Plus, there really is a big need to
not have to use Subversion for source control, but to use Git to allow
easier contributions from the community back to the project.
If the existing committers and maintainers really wanted to keep Xalan
alive, they would have diversified it more initially, and when old
committers left, recruited help from the community. Most XSLT
developers/users have moved on to Saxon, but that is just as dangerous
since it is maintained by just one person.
Dave
On 06/16/2011 03:34 PM, Bertrand Delacretaz wrote:
On Thu, Jun 16, 2011 at 3:25 PM, Michael Glavassevich
<mrgla...@ca.ibm.com> wrote:
Victor Wang<wangqi.aguai.2...@gmail.com> wrote on 06/16/2011 07:36:45 AM:
...
Yeah, i am working with Xalan-J and PsychoPath's merging jobs, but
it will only support a new Xalan-J version in the future. I have not
considered Xalan-C yet. We all hope that Xalan will be alive in
Apache in the future, what we can do is just try our best to improve it
:-)
That seems more likely if the folks (including yourself) interested in
continuing development of Xalan attempt to do that here while the project
still exists. I get the sense that there are at least a couple people on
this list if granted committer status would do that, but aren't sure how to
go about obtaining it since there isn't a quorum of active PMC members /
committers who could vote new committers in....
Yes, people working on Xalan or interested in keeping it alive should
definitely make themselves heard on this list. I have called for
volunteer ASF members to help reboot the Xalan PMC so the project can
continue here, but for this to happen we definitely need to hear about
what's happening with Xalan here and now.
Thanks,
-Bertrand
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