On Fri, Nov 28, 2008 at 10:33:37AM +1100, Steve Ball wrote: > Hi Daniel,
Hi Steve, > Firstly, thanks for your support and encouragement. As you, and others, > are aware the development model outlined in my message was not my first > choice to undertake this work. I completely understand that you must > point out the risks of this approach. okay, thanks for understanding my viewpoint too :-) > I've been developing and managing open source software projects for many > years (eg. the XSLT Standard Library and others), so I know that it is > more than just a licence. I also know the value of quality software > engineering and what it takes to achieve high quality. It's not that I have doubts about your value, as I said I think technically you are doing the right choices so far, but the approach has some uncertainties I had to point out ! > An important aspect of the plan that I am working to is to merge the > XPath 2/XSLT 2 code back in to the main libraries, for reasons that > should be obvious. If that were not the case then I'd just fork the code > and get on with it (I also considered writing an XSLT 2 implementation > from scratch, but libxml2 has great value that I don't want to lose so I > quickly dismissed that plan). I'll work with you to make sure that the > code quality is acceptable - that's the best-case scenario. Yes. Just to make 100% sure, if when the code is available, you would release it under the MIT Licence which is libxml2/libxslt one, right ? > Open Source is not incompatible with commercialism. I take as an example Well you can see where/who I work for, so sure ! > what ActiveState does for Perl, Python and Tcl. What I am hoping to do is > setup something that complements and supports the open source > libxml2/libxslt project. there is many approaches, that is one, another is to just capitalize the expertise when doing the code and use it to generate the service/teaching once established, but as I understand you're also trying to get some funding for the first part, a model I don't know and with some drawback. But I certainly understand where you're coming from ! I wish you the best for this project, try to close the loop as much as possible on the technical choices so that there is no nasty surprizes when I get to see the code :-) Daniel -- Daniel Veillard | libxml Gnome XML XSLT toolkit http://xmlsoft.org/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Rpmfind RPM search engine http://rpmfind.net/ http://veillard.com/ | virtualization library http://libvirt.org/ _______________________________________________ xml mailing list, project page http://xmlsoft.org/ [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/xml
