Jesper,
We need to keep posting our activities on the "xalan-dev@xml.apache.org"
list to keep the ASF XALAN project alive. (Bertrand, thanks for your
support! Thanks also for the promising news!)
I am making a commitment to advance Apache XALAN with Version XPath2 an
XSLT2. I have studied the W3 specifications and understand many of the
problem issues and infrastructure vulnerabilities. I also know the
internal architectures of numerous operating systems and program
language design. I am willing to participate on your code review team.
I wish you good progress with the GSoC endeavor.
The ASF XALAN product should have a new version number to accommodate
the architecture change. Here is my recommendation:
The ASF XALAN 1.xx series will be for XPath-1 and XSLT-1 maintenance.
The ASF XALAN 2.xx series will be for XPath-2 and XSLT-2 development.
It will be up to the reformed ASF XALAN PMC to determine the branch and
tag requirements of the SVN repository to accommodate this development
and maintenance efforts. Until then, feel free to use the bilrost
projects on github.
My initial challenge is to prepare a stable Xalan-C/C++ release for
version 1.11. The documentation framework appears manageable. I am now
making the project web pages appropriate for the Xalan-C/C++ 1.11 code
release. I am willing to work with the Apache Infrastructure PMC to
address the resource requirements for setting up a new release
distribution. I hope to have pre-production documents ready for review
in early August 2011, and ready for release sometime in September 2011.
I will actively contribute on both the github in support of GSoC and
when Apache XALAN is again healty, will contribute back to the Apache
XAPAN repositories, hopefully as a PMC member.
It looks like Bertrand is making progress toward keeping ASF XALAN live,
but it takes some of us to become ASF members and committers. We thank
the persons on this list for their interest.
- Steven J. Hathaway
=== xalan-dev@xml.apache.org===
> On Thu, Jun 16, 2011 at 10:46 PM, Bertrand Delacretaz
> <bdelacre...@apache.org> wrote:
> > > ...for now I have asked on
> > > the ASF members list if any existing members could help reboot this
> > > project by sitting (at least temporarily) on its PMC, until things
> > > happen....
> And the good news is that we do have enough volunteers!
>
> I'll start discussing the next steps here next week, Monday if things
go well.
>
> -Bertrand
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On 6/18/2011 2:27 AM, Jesper Steen Møller wrote:
> Hi Steve
>
> Welcome to the party!
>
> Just so you know, git works on other platforms, too, including
Windows, but working with several platforms will help iin keeping the
build working across platforms, I guess. I'll check it out on my
machines and see how well they build a.t.m.
>
> As for XSLT2/3 - do you have time and interest in working towards
XSLT2/3?
>
> -Jesper
>
> On 18/06/2011, at 09.34, Steve Hathaway wrote:
>
>> Dave,
>>
>> Thanks for your clone of ASF XALAN projects to bilrost and bilrost-c
>> code base on github. I will now install the GIT support packages
>> on some Debian Linux machines for local work.
>>
>> I was added to the bilrost-dev without a functional google account.
>> I have since bound a google account to my email and have performed
>> a quick look at the two bilrost projects based on Apache XALAN.
>>
>> This is my first effort with a GIT based code control system repository.
>> I am familiar with several other repositories and am trying to learn
GIT.
>>
Sincerely,
Steven J. Hathaway
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