Re: Donation of JAXP 1.3 Sources to Apache

Hi all,


Berin Lautenbach <[email protected]> wrote on 10/13/2004 06:59:22 
PM:

> I'm assuming that this is something that XML-Commons/Xerces/Xalan wish 
> to do?

Here's a +1 from someone who's committed to Xerces-J and xml-commons.  If 
either project didn't want to move up to the latest standard API's, that 
sure would be an interesting situation.  :)

> If that's the case, then I don't think we need to go through the full 
> incubation process (Noel - thoughts appreciated!) - we only need a code 
> grant from Sun (we can't take something into our repository until we are 

> sure we have appropriate legal rights to do so) + someone needs to fill 
> out the incubation docs to show that everything is AOK. 

As I've argued before, it seems to me that this is a case where some 
Apache committers have simply gone away for a while, developed some code 
based on the Apache projects to which they have commit privileges, and now 
have reached a point where they can commit the code back.  It's not a case 
where a new component is being added; simply where a rather large update 
is being undertaken.

But I'm no lawyer, so I have no allusions that this argument will actually 
count for anything.  :)  But given the apparent unanimity in the 
communities about this being a good thing, and the fact this thread's been 
pretty quiet the last couple of days, it would be nice to get some status 
on when the granting/incubating formalities might be done with.

Cheers!
Neil