I am OK with the idea of *adopting* Neko and Jing, however, I would like
to see those as sub-projects.

As Arnaud mentioned, we've previously discussed the idea of creating a
sub-project of NekoHTML, however, the discussion stopped without any
outcome. I suggest we refresh our memory on the past suggestions and
finally decide what and how many sub-projects we create, including the
details on how we manage those.

Here is the list of proposals (the ones made in the past and new ones): 

1. What is the criteria for creating a sub-project? Should we consider
how many committers are interested and willing to work on the
sub-project, should we consider user requirements? Where does the vote
take place, i.e. xerces-j-dev, xerces-j-user? 

2.  Sub-project repositories:
a) Have separate repositories.
b) Add sub-projects under "xml-xerces/java", i.e.
"xml-xerces/java/neko", "xml-xerces/java/relaxng". 
I have a slight preference for this approach.

3. Do we want to create only one sub-project, i.e. "toolbox"?

4. Sub-projects should have its own build file, documentation and jar
files, i.e. xerces-neko.jar. 

5. Exposing sub projects:
a) sub-projects could be linked directly from the xml.apache.org web
site 
b) sub-projects are linked from the Xerces web site.

6. Mailing lists:
a) Create a mailing list for developers/users of the sub-project.
b) Create one mailing list for all sub-projects.
c) Don't create any mailing lists -- use xerces-j-dev/user for
discussions.

7. Sub-projects should have its own releases (which don't necessarily
match Xerces ones).

8. We should consider separate HTML/WML DOM components from the main
Xerces projects.


Thank you,
-- 
Elena Litani / IBM Toronto

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