Roger, Bill, Gary, I think a solution where we re-boot the PMC with just the 3 of you will be a great way to keep the project going. Don't worry about the fact that you may be only overseeing C++ parts of it -- projects evolve over time and if all that is left of Xalan is C++ part -- that's still way better than nothing.
If you agree with this plan -- please reply to the thread and we can proceed. Thanks, Roman (on behalf of ASF board) On 2018/12/11 20:54:50, Roger Leigh <[email protected]> wrote: > Likewise, I currently maintain patchsets for private use and for > homebrew, vcpkg, BSD ports etc. All these patches should have been > upstreamed, and I've posted some of them here over the years, with zero > interest observed in having them merged and released. I've also written > a complete CMake build so it will build on all contemporary platforms, > as I already did for Xerces-C++. I'll be happy to spend the time to get > this into a fully tested and releasable state. But it does require > commitment from the Xalan project to review and commit it, or permit me > or others who care about it to do so ourselves. > > Like Bill, I'm a C++ user, and would primarily be looking at the C++ > code only. > > > Regards, > Roger > > On 11/12/2018 20:49, Bill Blough wrote: > > I currently maintain the packaging for the Xalan C++ codebase in > > Debian. I also use Xalan C++ extensively at my day job. > > > > At one point, Steven Hathaway and I privately discussed me becoming a > > committer for the project. However at that time, I was unable to take > > on any more commitments, so I had to decline. This was a few years ago. > > > > It light of the current discussion (and changes to my workload since > > then), I would be willing to allocate some of my time to helping > > keep Xalan alive. However, this would be primarily on the C++ codebase, as > > I don't really have the expertise to contribute to the Java codebase. > > > > I would also be willing to help with the PMC if desired. I am currently > > a committer and PMC member for the Apache Axis2 project. > > > > Regards, > > > > Bill > > > > > > > > On Mon, Dec 10, 2018 at 10:27 PM Roman Shaposhnik <[email protected]> wrote: > > > >> Hi! > >> > >> it seems that despite all the efforts, at this point we only have 2 PMC > >> members > >> who are willing to continue governing Xalan: Michael and Gary. > >> > >> Unfortunately, this means that unless somebody steps up and joins the PMC, > >> we will > >> have to proceed with moving Xalan to ASF's attic soon: > >> http://attic.apache.org/ > >> > >> Note, that the project can always be revived should at least 3 active PMC > >> members > >> materialize in the future, but it behoves us to be honest with our users > >> and signal when > >> there's not enough current activity to keep the project going. > >> > >> Thanks, > >> Roman. > >> > >> --------------------------------------------------------------------- > >> To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] > >> For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected] > >> > >> > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] > For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected] > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected]
