Re: Trying to understand the level of activity in Xalan community

Michael, Gary, thanks for your replies -- it seems we've got at least
2 active PMC members on the project.

We still need the 3d one however ;-)

I'm also curious what Steven Hathaway is up to, since he's listed as a
current chair and hopefully he's still OK with those responsibilities.

Thanks,
Roman.
On Tue, Oct 9, 2018 at 10:51 AM Michael Glavassevich <[email protected]> w=
rote:
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> There are at least a couple people who have shown an interest in contribu=
ting who in my opinion should probably be elected as committers and to the =
PMC. When the PMC got rebooted several years ago I think a lot of us were j=
ust enthusiasts for the project (e.g. I care because Xerces depends on Xala=
n's serializer) who weren't going to be very active from a development pers=
pective, but would help bring new people on who wanted to contribute to Xal=
an.
>
> On Sun, Oct 7, 2018 at 12:19 PM Gary Gregory <[email protected]> wro=
te:
>>
>> Roman,
>>
>> Gary Gregory here, PMC member.
>>
>> Your analysis is spot on, there is very little activity on the project.
>>
>> A few years back, I RM'd release 2.7.2 which was a semi obscure exercise=
 as no one was or is around to answer questions as to what branch means wha=
t and details about the build.
>>
>> There are pending patches and some interest to see these through, and I =
would not mind keeping on pushing on. BUT...
>>
>> Stepping back, it is not clean to me how far the Oracle JRE has diverged=
 from Xalan or how relevant Xalan is now compared to the Oracle JRE and Sax=
on (http://saxon.sourceforge.net/).
>>
>> It seems Xalan has fallen quite far behind Saxon for example.
>>
>> I could see that releasing a 2.7.3 with a bug fixes would help folks.
>>
>> Gary
>>
>> On Sun, Oct 7, 2018 at 8:59 AM Roman Shaposhnik <[email protected]> wrote:
>>>
>>> Hi!
>>>
>>> one question that got discussed at the ASF board meeting
>>> last month is that while Xalan user community still shows
>>> interest in the project, the PMC activity seems to be somewhat
>>> lacking.
>>>
>>> As you probably are aware every ASF project requires at least
>>> 3 active PMC members in order to be considered active. My
>>> cursory review of mailing list and JIRA activity shows that out
>>> of the current 7 PMC members:
>>>    dbertoni David N Bertoni
>>>    gareth Gareth Reakes
>>>    ggregory Gary D. Gregory
>>>    mrglavas Michael Glavassevich
>>>    sanjiva Sanjiva Weerawarana
>>>    shathaway Steven J. Hathaway
>>>    twilliams Tim Williams
>>> only a few (AKA less than 3 ;-)) show some level of activity.
>>>
>>> If my analysis is wrong -- please let me know (by identifying
>>> yourself as an active PMC member). If not -- I'd love
>>> to see if there's enough interest in user community to keep
>>> PMC active.
>>>
>>> Please let me know either way.
>>>
>>> Thanks,
>>> Roman.