Re: Resuming maintenance

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I'm so happy to hear that you'll be able to spend time on libxml2 this
year, Nick. Thank you and thanks to Google.

Although I'm relieved, the potential loss of maintainers from the project
<https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/libxml2/-/issues/319#note_1348651> was
alarming. Perhaps another goal to consider for the year is to expand the
pool of contributors and maintainers. I (and others, I assume) am
interested in volunteering more time so that the burden isn't carried by
you alone, and so that if in the future you're unable to secure funding the
user community will be able to sustain that loss.

Thanks again, and please think about what work volunteers can pick up to
get more involved.

On Mon, Jan 10, 2022 at 9:20 AM Nick Wellnhofer via xml <[email protected]>
wrote:

> Hello,
>
> Thanks to a donation from Google, I'm able to resume maintenance of
> libxml2
> (and libxslt) for the remainder of 2022.
>
> My immediate plans are:
>
> - Make a bug fix release fixing many regressions.
> - Establish a new release schedule, possibly with multiple branches being
>    maintained.
> - Move releases from the old FTP server to GNOME's Gitlab infrastructure.
> - Move documentation to GNOME infrastructure.
> - Set up an official way to sponsor libxml2 maintainers.
>
> In the future I'll focus less on security improvements and more on typical
> maintenance duties like bug fixes and modernizing the code base in a few
> ways.
>
> Thanks (again) to Google for making this possible.
>
> Nick
> _______________________________________________
> xml mailing list, project page  http://xmlsoft.org/
> [email protected]
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<div dir=3D"ltr">I&#39;m so happy to hear that you&#39;ll be able to spend =
time on libxml2 this year, Nick. Thank you and thanks to Google.<div><br></=
div><div>Although I&#39;m relieved, the <a href=3D"https://gitlab.gnome.org=
/GNOME/libxml2/-/issues/319#note_1348651">potential loss of maintainers fro=
m the project</a> was alarming. Perhaps another goal to consider for the ye=
ar is to expand the pool of contributors and maintainers. I (and others, I =
assume) am interested in volunteering more time so that the burden isn&#39;=
t carried by you alone, and so that if in the future you&#39;re unable to s=
ecure funding the user community will be able to sustain that loss.</div><d=
iv><br></div><div>Thanks again, and please think about what work volunteers=
 can pick up to get more involved.</div></div><br><div class=3D"gmail_quote=
"><div dir=3D"ltr" class=3D"gmail_attr">On Mon, Jan 10, 2022 at 9:20 AM Nic=
k Wellnhofer via xml &lt;<a href=3D"mailto:[email protected]">[email protected]</a>=
&gt; wrote:<br></div><blockquote class=3D"gmail_quote" style=3D"margin:0px =
0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">Hell=
o,<br>
<br>
Thanks to a donation from Google, I&#39;m able to resume maintenance of lib=
xml2 <br>
(and libxslt) for the remainder of 2022.<br>
<br>
My immediate plans are:<br>
<br>
- Make a bug fix release fixing many regressions.<br>
- Establish a new release schedule, possibly with multiple branches being<b=
r>
=C2=A0 =C2=A0maintained.<br>
- Move releases from the old FTP server to GNOME&#39;s Gitlab infrastructur=
e.<br>
- Move documentation to GNOME infrastructure.<br>
- Set up an official way to sponsor libxml2 maintainers.<br>
<br>
In the future I&#39;ll focus less on security improvements and more on typi=
cal <br>
maintenance duties like bug fixes and modernizing the code base in a few wa=
ys.<br>
<br>
Thanks (again) to Google for making this possible.<br>
<br>
Nick<br>
_______________________________________________<br>
xml mailing list, project page=C2=A0 <a href=3D"http://xmlsoft.org/" rel=3D=
"noreferrer" target=3D"_blank">http://xmlsoft.org/</a><br>
<a href=3D"mailto:[email protected]" target=3D"_blank">[email protected]</a><br>
<a href=3D"https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/xml" rel=3D"noreferrer" =
target=3D"_blank">https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/xml</a><br>
</blockquote></div>

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