Re: Making a new release

"Paul Libbrecht" <[email protected]> Fri, 16 Apr 2021 09:55:20 +0200
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I would very much support this (being a former committer of Apache 
Commons and a strong supporter of JDOM).

paul

On 16 Apr 2021, at 7:31, Jason Hunter wrote:

> The license today is the Apache v1 license minus the attribution 
> clause. (I always felt that was imposing, and that was before I knew 
> the hazards of open source license proliferation.)
>
> It's in my github repo and I own jdom.org <http://jdom.org/> . I have 
> no objections to it finding a happy home. It's a 21 year old project 
> at this point. It's Brett and I that have kept the copyright, although 
> we didn't do formal contributor agreements. Rolf wrote a good chunk of 
> JDOM2.
>
> -jh-
>
>> On Mar 16, 2021, at 4:56 AM, Gary Gregory <[email protected]> 
>> wrote:
>>
>> An alternative would be to fork the project by for example, bringing 
>> it in to Apache Commons (I can probably help with that) but the 
>> license would have to be Apache 2.
>>
>> I see Jason's name in the license header, does that mean you also 
>> have commit privileges to the repo?
>>
>> Gary
>>
>> On Tue, Mar 16, 2021, 07:00 Elliotte Rusty Harold <[email protected] 
>> <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
>> I hear you. Every year or two I push a patch release of XOM and I
>> swear I spend more time figuring out changes to the hosting platforms
>> than I do working on the software. For instance, last month Sonatype
>> added an extra and invalid presubmit check to the artifacts I was
>> publishing that XOM failed, so I had to file a ticket with them to be
>> able to push again. I still haven't gotten around to updating the
>> website.
>>
>> On Tue, Mar 16, 2021 at 7:58 AM Jason Hunter <[email protected] 
>> <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
>>>
>>> It's sure been quiet around here. How many of you are out there? How 
>>> many "address not found" responses am I about to get? :)
>>>
>>> One reason it's been quiet is Rolf Lear hasn't been communicating 
>>> since Dec 2015. I'm not sure what happened to him. That's the 
>>> downside of purely electronic open source collaboration. Is he OK? I 
>>> hope so. I don't know how to find out.
>>>
>>> We're at a point where there's a need to make a new JDOM release to 
>>> fix a small but important issue. I have the fix but I don't have 
>>> time the next six weeks to figure out Rolf's system. I don't even 
>>> have time to figure out the level of effort. Maybe it's easy, but 
>>> I'm swamped with other tasks.
>>>
>>> Does any of the old crew want to help get a new release out the 
>>> door? We'll have to figure out what Rolf was doing.
>>>
>>> Thanks,
>>> -jh-
>>>
>>>
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>>
>>
>>
>> -- 
>> Elliotte Rusty Harold
>> [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>
>>
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dom.org/" class=3D"">jdom.org</a>. I have no objections to it finding a h=
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ments. Rolf wrote a good chunk of JDOM2.</div><div class=3D""><br class=3D=
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I can probably help with that) but the license would have to be Apache 2.=
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ar or two I push a patch release of XOM and I<br class=3D"">
swear I spend more time figuring out changes to the hosting platforms<br =
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than I do working on the software. For instance, last month Sonatype<br c=
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added an extra and invalid presubmit check to the artifacts I was<br clas=
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website.<br class=3D"">
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On Tue, Mar 16, 2021 at 7:58 AM Jason Hunter &lt;<a href=3D"mailto:jhunte=
[email protected]" target=3D"_blank" rel=3D"noreferrer" class=3D"">jhunter@s=
ervlets.com</a>&gt; wrote:<br class=3D"">
&gt;<br class=3D"">
&gt; It's sure been quiet around here. How many of you are out there? How=
 many "address not found" responses am I about to get? :)<br class=3D"">
&gt;<br class=3D"">
&gt; One reason it's been quiet is Rolf Lear hasn't been communicating si=
nce Dec 2015. I'm not sure what happened to him. That's the downside of p=
urely electronic open source collaboration. Is he OK? I hope so. I don't =
know how to find out.<br class=3D"">
&gt;<br class=3D"">
&gt; We're at a point where there's a need to make a new JDOM release to =
fix a small but important issue. I have the fix but I don't have time the=
 next six weeks to figure out Rolf's system. I don't even have time to fi=
gure out the level of effort. Maybe it's easy, but I'm swamped with other=
 tasks.<br class=3D"">
&gt;<br class=3D"">
&gt; Does any of the old crew want to help get a new release out the door=
? We'll have to figure out what Rolf was doing.<br class=3D"">
&gt;<br class=3D"">
&gt; Thanks,<br class=3D"">
&gt; -jh-<br class=3D"">
&gt;<br class=3D"">
&gt;<br class=3D"">
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">http://www.jdom.org/mailman/options/jdom-interest/[email protected]=
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