Re: Please resubmit a report (was: ASF Board Meeting Summary - November 17, 2010)

[Craig L Russell <cr...@oracle.com>]

Hi David,

The usual course of action is to nominate the Xalan project for the  
Attic.

Craig

On Dec 11, 2010, at 11:36 AM, David Bertoni wrote:

> Sorry, I missed a few addresses on the original email!
>
> Dave
>
> -------- Original Message --------
> Subject: Re: Please resubmit a report (was: ASF Board Meeting  
> Summary - November 17, 2010)
> Date: Sat, 11 Dec 2010 11:34:16 -0800
> From: David Bertoni <db...@apache.org>
> To: private@xalan.apache.org
>
> On 11/19/2010 3:56 PM, Shane Curcuru wrote:
>> The board discussed the most recent Xalan board report and did not
>> accept it as it does not give a sufficient picture of the health of  
>> the
>> project. Please plan on submitting a replacement report for next  
>> month's
>> meeting on 15-Dec.
>>
>> In particular, a sense of how the committer community is doing, in  
>> terms
>> of continuing as a healthy and diverse community. The lack of  
>> releases
>> and lack of significant reports about community (like new  
>> committers or
>> PMC members) over a long period of time are a concern; one would hope
>> this would lead a PMC to think about - and report on - the future  
>> of the
>> project.
> Hey Shane,
>
> Sorry I've been late getting back to you. I don't think there's much  
> of
> a future for the Xalan project in terms of getting active committers.
> I've tried to encourage a number of people to contribute patches to  
> work
> toward committer status, but without any success.
>
> Also, after 11 years of working on Xalan-C and Xalan-J, I'm pretty  
> much
> tapped out. Since we were unable to get enough commitment to start
> working on XSLT 2.0, I don't think there much more that we can do with
> the current version of Xalan, which only supports XSLT 1.0.
>
> I'm happy to continue answering questions on the last and to  
> contribute
> bug fixes to the SVN repository, but I can't work on XSLT 2.0 due to
> time constraints and IP constraints because of my work on the XML
> functionality in DB2. Also, the PMC has been pretty much inactive,  
> since
> most people have moved on to other projects, or are similarly
> time-constrained or IP-constrained.
>
> What's the usual course of action in this case? Should Xalan go into
> hibernation?
>
> Dave

Craig L Russell
Architect, Oracle
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