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Posted to general@xml.apache.org by Dirk-Willem van Gulik <di...@covalent.net> on 2001/03/07 02:29:51 UTC
Volunteers for the PMC
Folks,
Thanks everyone - here is the promised cut of volunteers ! All mistakes,
ommissions etc are mine. Let me know and I fix them.
. Sam Ruby
. Davanum Srinivas
. Ted Leung
. Matthew B Brandabur
. Kelly A. Campbell
. Rajesh Thiharie
. Shane Curcuru
. Ram Mareddy
. Dirk-Willem van Gulik
. Arved Sandstrom
. Tinny Ng
. Luc Chamberland
As to what next - It is good to see that we have some debate over this. So
I'll try to help out by summarzing what I hear in a separate message.
Dw.
Volunteers for the next PMC of the XML projects:
(in order of appearance in my inbox):
Key to the entries:
1. Name
2. Apache Affiliation
3. Professional affiliations when considered relevant
relevant or if the need is feel to disclose them.
4. The beef - What you bring to the table
1. Sam Ruby
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2. Committer xml-soap/xml-axis. Infrequent committer to
xml-cocoon. Jakarta PMC Chair. PHP Group Member. Apache Member.
3. IBM
4. Focus on inter-subproject versioning and compatibility issues.
http://jakarta.apache.org/builds/gump/latest/
1. Davanum Srinivas (nickname: dims)
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2. Working on Cocoon2 (C2) Apache project since last Oct/Nov
3.1 Employee of Computer Associates (working on Jasmineii - http://www.ca.com/jasmine)
3.2 FAQ Manager of JNI-FAQ at jGuru.com (http://www.jguru.com/faq/JNI)
4.1 Integrated Xalan2's TRaX into Cocoon2(Now C2 can use SAXON too)
4.2 Integrated Batik into Cocoon2.
4.3 Looking into Turbine integration with C2 right now.
4.4 Occasionally submitted patches to Xalan2 and a couple to Xerces.
1. Ted Leung
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2. Committer for Xerces-J, Member of current XML PMC.
3. I work for myself as an independent consultant. Previously CTO Enkubator,
LLC (launching Internet startups atop Open Source platforms). Previously
Technical Lead IBM XML4J (became Xerces1 code base).
4. I've spent some time recently trying to help the Xerces-J project get a
little more organized. I'm willing to do "scut work" like editing the
website, maintaining bugzilla, etc. I am concerned about version lock
problems, and API consistency across the projects. I'd also like to see
the "infrastructure" projects (Xerces, Xalan, FOP, Batik, SOAP) move in
the direction of an application server stack. I think that having a small
set of design points that the various projects are striving for will bring
more unity in design and community. As an example Xerces-J is
consistently torn by people who want to turn it into an engine for writing
incremental XML editors and people who want to turn it into a component
suitable for production level messaging. Often the goals of these two
camps are opposed.
One last thing. Jim Allchin's recent comment about Open Source stifling
innovation seemed particularly relevant to me. In the past the part of
the charter that referenced XML standards has been used as a way to keep
features out of projects and projects out of xml.apache.org. I think it
is very important that the XML project be a place where innovation is both
allowed and encouraged. Our best example of this is Cocoon. Jakarta has
a few examples: Ant and Struts. I want to see our projects continue to
innovate in similar fashion, so I want to be sure that whatever we do to
the charter still allows for that.
1. Matthew B Brandabur
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2. Working on the Oracle Internet File System which ships with Apache and
working on a proof oc concept project to integrate IFS with Cocoon/Batik
3. Staff member of Oracle
4. I have been following the progress of the cocoon project for several
months, and I would like to be involved. I am not primarily a coder,
however. I am in charge of documenting Oracle's Internet File System for
developers, so I have lots of experience writing for developer audiences.
I get lots of hands-on experience with our API, including writing sample
code and testing our example projects, so I am comfortable with enterprise
Java and constantly practicing on my own.
1. Kelly A. Campbell
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2. Committer on FOP. I'm also the lead developer on the Merlot XML editor
(www.merlotxml.org) which is not an Apache project, but is released under
a similar license. I also use a good amount of the Apache projects, XML,
Jakarta, and otherwise, and have submitted bug reports and patches for the
projects I use.
3. I work with XML and Java technologies for ChannelPoint, Inc. The spectrum
of how I use it ranges from producing basic documentation via
XML/XSLT/XSLFO up to full web applications and frameworks.
4. I'm interested in most aspects of XML, XSLT, and XSL FO, from development
to a user's standpoint. I have 4 years Java experience, and almost 2 years
of experience with XML and XSL. I'm interested in the interactions between
our projects and the build processes Sam Ruby is working on with Gump. I
would like to work towards standardization of runtime linking and
deployment of java projects (using XML, Ant, and some of the Gump work)...
sort of like a gnu autoconf/linker for Java. I'm also very interested in
helping standardize how Apache projects test their code, either via JUnit,
or another tool as Scott Boag suggested on this list a while back.
Another thing I would like to promote as XML projects is UI tools for
working with XML, XSL, etc.
1. Rajesh Thiharie
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2. Working on a proof of concept project that uses EJB - XML - Cocoon
and Servlets/JSP
3. Work for Aithent - a software development company based otu of New Delhi,
India
4. I have been using Xerces - Xalan for over six months now and Cocoon for
four months Am very interested in XML overall.
1. Shane Curcuru <sh...@lotus.com> <cu...@apache.org>
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2. xml-xalan committer, daily xml-xerces, xml-crimson, and jakarta-ant user
3. IBM Research employee (transferred from Lotus recently, hence the email
addr). Note that although I do work for IBM which ships the LotusXSL
processor (a thin wrapper on top of Xalan, mostly) I definitely feel I
wear separate hats as Apache committer and IBM employee. I focus my
work on Xalan towards making it the best XSLT processor out there, and
to be a 'good citizen' project in the Apache community.
4 Lead Java API tester and test automation creator/maintainer for Xalan
for the past 2 years; see http://xml.apache.org/xalan-j/test/ I've been
a Software Quality Engineer for 12 years on multiple Lotus projects
including being the 1-2-3 database, cell engine and UI components
testing and automation leads; was the 1-2-3 build engineer; and was the
eSuite Automation Coordinator, where I implemented a common distributed
testing system and trained the eSuite QE team to write their own
Java/JavaScript automation (including many without coding experience).
I could bring experience at helping drive more guidelines and standards
for xml.apache.org project's organizations. Although I usually hate to
admit it, I can help get projects more on board with a cross-project
build system like Sam Ruby's Gump/Alexandria/whatever we call it now.
I'd also like to help implement Scott's idea of having common testing
infrastructure, although I believe this will be a significant effort to
fully implement. We'll need both the tools to enable common automation
as well as guidelines for how/what to test, and really good
documentation on writing good tests. I have to admit that one of the
challenges for me will be applying my skills from large corporate
projects into the Apache open source model - where you have few, if any,
dedicated 'test' engineers, and everyone's a volunteer. One very
important thing will be to make our testing story both make sense to
people and be *very* easy to implement for the average developer. Oh,
and a third area I'd like to focus on is improving and coordinating the
overall xml.apache.org documentation set. I think we do have very good
doc now; just long term I think we need to provide even better
documentation to allow a wider audience to quickly pickup and use Apache
tools.
1. Ram Mareddy
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2. I am currently working with xerces-c. While I don't have any formal role
with Apache, I used that code a lot.
3. Siebel Systems; Architecture Specialist (/Software Engineering -- the
role is slightly changing). I have about ten years of industry
experience plus the other usual qualifications like MS in Computer
Science; along the way worked with several products, languages, and
databases. Also, involved with the bay area Software Development Forum
(SDF).
4. I work with the Connectors group. This group builds connectors from
Siebel to all the popular ERP/other packages (this list is constantly
growing). All this EAI infrastructure is solidly based on XML and the
dll's from the Apache effort. So, I can provide a very unique
perspective from the sophisticated use of these technologies. Internally
I have an opportunity deal with a variety of departments in this
context: from Engg to QA to tech pubs to prod mktg to services on a
constant basis.
1. Dirk-Willem van Gulik
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2. ASF Board member, httpd committer
3. Not relevant - but disclosed as: VP of R&D at Covalent Technologies; a
hybrid opensource/commercial product company that supports and
builds upon ASF technology to make it enterprize ready.
4. Having seen the birth of this XML and the troublesome path of
its PMC I'd like to be part of the efford which matures this
group into long term stability - and I'd like to help us find
a balance and and environment in which we can work on code, hack
protocols and standards without an overly burdensome or top
heavy organisational framework - whilst still addressing the worries
with cross project versioning, release methods and our ongoing
interwovenness with other ASF projects such as java/jakarta.
1. Arved Sandstrom
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2. FOP committer, ASF member
3. Supportive employer (e-plicity, Halifax, Nova Scotia); no conflicting
affiliations.
4. I am currently immersed in XML and Java, both here and at work. I'm very
strongly oriented to problem-solving; my background is physics and
scientific programming. So it's not so much XML that interests me, as the
fact that I think it's a great data format, and I'm a data formats
aficionado. I support the use of Java not because I love it (I don't) but
because it is a fine GP open-source programming language. I started out
with XML through XML::Parser porting work, back around the 2.16 version,
both C and Perl.
I'm interested in describing and documenting the product/project/software
lifecycles that we have here, with a view to understanding what we do
well, what we don't do so well, and helping get improvements in place.
I'm a processes guy, and have both experience and formal background in
software engineering as opposed to programming alone. I share the
perspective that sees us solving various problems - infrastructure, web
publishing, print publishing, etc - and would like to explore how we can
orient our process focus and user experience (buzzword alert!) towards
our solutions to problem categories.
I'm highly cognizant that we also have open-source goals and open-source
conditions that do not apply to business - continuous user input and
promotion of our community are just a few of those. I think those are our
strengths, and I think it would be really neat to capture and formalize
(to some degree) what it is that we do (and can do) under these
conditions. So I see part of XML Apache (projects and PMC) innovation as
being innovation in process.
As others have stated about themselves, I'm not afraid to roll up the
sleeves. I like testing (yeah, there are a few of us weirdos),
documentation (getting worse...), and I have been known to code Webbish
stuff.
1. Tinny Ng
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2. Committer for Xerces-C
3. IBM XML Parsers Development
4. I have been involved in the Xerces-C project for over six months, and am
one of the primary Xerces-C developer. Dedicated to bring improvement
to the Xerces-C project such as introduced the use of Bugzilla, improved
the Xerces-C website and its documentation.... etc. Current ambition is
to bring Schema support to Xerces-C. I am also a user of Xerces-J,
Xalan, Cocoon and FOP, and am very interested to work on the bigger
picture.
1. Luc Chamberland
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2. Subscriber to xerces-j and xerces-c and parser licensee.
3. IBM, XML Parsers Development Manager (IBM XML4J and XML4C)
4. I have an extensive background in project management, and would like to
bring those skills over to the XML sub-projects so that we can improve
our planning, bug tracking, and coordination amongst the sub-projects. I
currently provide similar project management to XML parser development
occuring within IBM. I answer a lot of questions pertaining to licensing
of Apache technology by IBM, and would be happy to do same for Apache.
I'm particularly interested in working with the other sub-projects to
ensure they work well together, and maintain some level of application
agnosticism. Some of the closed source efforts in the industry are
putting out compelling suites of XML tools/runtimes, and our community
needs to better ensure our tools compliment one another. (I concur with
Ted on the need for common design points and a technology stack.)
As a technical writer for several years, I'd like to lend my help to
improving our overall doc strategy, particularly by focussing on "big
picture" scenarios that illustrate how the various sub-project
technologies work together. I've written similar articles for the Java
Developer's Journal and IBM publications.
Re: Volunteers for the PMC
Posted by Dirk-Willem van Gulik <di...@covalent.net>.
On Tue, 6 Mar 2001, Dirk-Willem van Gulik wrote:
> Thanks everyone - here is the promised cut of volunteers ! All mistakes,
> ommissions etc are mine. Let me know and I fix them.
I've just learned that there is a difference between the messages I
received; the ones in the mailing archive and the ones a collegue next
door received. So I'll have to take some time to sort through and work
out what is still in the queue or what was missed. I for sure did not
get Scott Boag's message of 3/3 and possibly another message as well - and
have trouble fidning the latter in the archive
So please bear with my whilst I try to get this complete,
Dw