Re: [VOTE]: motion to transform Xerces into a top-level project as a member of the "federation" of XML projects

At 20.05 29/04/2004 +1000, Berin Lautenbach wrote:
>Any thoughts - not just from Xerces, but others as well?  We have one 
>month to the board meeting where we need to say what we are doing in this 
>space.
>
>We either need to make this happen (and thus recognise that 
>Xerces/Xalan/etc are already acting as TLPs), or we need to look at how 
>the XML PMC is going to more effectively oversite the "sub-projects".
>
>I *really* don't want to head down the latter path, as it means the XML 
>PMC is going to have to start getting involved in code changes and 
>releases for all the sub-projects.

Hi Berin,
can you elaborate on the consequences of this change? At least for me it's 
not completely clear what it means. This is what I understood:
- If the "yes" wins, a new PMC needs to be created, overseeing the releases 
of Xerces-J, Xerces-C and Xerces-P. Who would be on this board? I guess it 
will be made of people involved in these 3 projects; but this would mean 
that, when one of these projects releases a version, a part of that board 
will have no control on what has been released (granted, this percentage 
will be lower - let's say 66% - than the current percentage in the XML PMC 
- probably closer to 90%); or does it mean that the entire Xerces PMC will 
need to be involved in all three projects?
- If the "no" wins, the current XML PMC should be "getting involved in code 
changes": what does this imply? Monitoring xerces-cvs to spot license 
problems or something else?

Thanks in advance,
Alberto


>Cheers,
>         Berin
>
>Berin Lautenbach wrote:
>
>>Peoples,
>>I have hacked around a board resolution for making Xerces a TLP.
>>It's actually the only thing needed to get things going.  But to finish
>>it, a PMC and chair would need to be added in.
>>Tell me if I'm wasting my time :>.  I'd very much like to get one or two 
>>of these moving by the next board meeting (one month from now).  But if 
>>it's not to be, then we also need to start working out how we are going 
>>to improve XML PMC oversite of Xerces and the other sub-projects.
>>All thoughts welcome!  I'd very much like to understand what everyone's 
>>feelings are in relation to making Xerces (and the other sub-projects) TLPs.
>>Cheers,
>>     Berin
>>
>>   WHEREAS, the Board of Directors deems it to be in
>>   the best interests of the Foundation and consistent with
>>   the Foundation's purpose to establish a Project Management
>>   Committee charged with the creation and maintenance of
>>   open-source software related to XML parsers, for distribution
>>   at no charge to the public.
>>   NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED, that a Project Management
>>   Committee (PMC), to be known as the "Xerces PMC", be and
>>   hereby is established pursuant to Bylaws of the Foundation;
>>   and be it further
>>   RESOLVED, that the Xerces PMC be and hereby is responsible
>>   for the creation and maintenance of software related to creation
>>   and maintenance of open-source software related to XML parsers
>>   based on software licensed to the Foundation; and be it further
>>   RESOLVED, that the office of "Vice President, Xerces" be and
>>   hereby is created, the person holding such office to serve
>>   at the direction of the Board of Directors as the chair of the
>>   Xerces PMC, and to have primary responsibility for management
>>   of the projects within the scope of responsibility of the
>>   Xerces PMC; and be it further
>>   RESOLVED, that the persons listed immediately below be and hereby
>>   are appointed to serve as the initial members of the Xerces PMC:
>>   * name <[email protected]>
>>   * name2 <[email protected]>
>>   NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, that REPLACE WITH CHAIR
>>   be and hereby is appointed to the office of Vice President, Xerces,
>>   to serve in accordance with and subject to the direction of the
>>   Board of Directors and the Bylaws of the Foundation until death,
>>   resignation, retirement, removal or disqualification, or until a
>>   successor is appointed; and be it further
>>   RESOLVED, that the initial Xerces PMC be and hereby is tasked
>>   with the creation of a set of bylaws intended to encourage open
>>   development and increased participation in the Xerces Project;
>>   and be it further
>>   RESOLVED, that the initial Xerces PMC be and hereby is tasked
>>   with the migration and rationalization of the Apache XML PMC
>>   Xerces subproject; and be it further
>>   RESOLVED, that all responsibility pertaining to the XML
>>   Xerces sub-project and encumbered upon the Apache XML PMC
>>   are hereafter discharged.
>>
>>Andy Clark wrote:
>>
>>>Neil Graham wrote:
>>>
>>>>>I guess the problem I have with it is that, to me, a sub-
>>>>>project should be related to a parent project which has
>>>>>some physical code.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>What's the "physical code" in the XML project to which all the Xerces-*,
>>>>Xalan-* et al are related to?
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>There isn't any. Which is exactly why the individual
>>>parsers are not sub-projects in the XML project and they
>>>should not be sub-projects in the new Xerces project.
>>>
>>>>Pretty much the same kind of thing that is their parent now.  Except under
>>>>this proposal there's the commonality of "intimately related to XML
>>>>parsing" binding the subprojects together; in XML, it's some vague
>>>>association with XML or its applications.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>Can we just say that and keep the organization of the
>>>parser implementations the same? Then real sub-projects
>>>of the parsers have a place to live within the project/
>>>sub-project architecture.
>>>
>>>>I wonder if you had a chance to glance at my proposal on how to modify the
>>>>charter to permit "closely related" technologies.  I'd actually prefer to
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>The proposal would need to be fundamentally changed
>>>before I could make suggestions about this point. And
>>>if the proposal is changed then it's probably not an
>>>issue anymore.
>>>
>>>>keep us doing parsers, and have components like HTML parsers live in
>>>>XML-commons (or some other more common place), but I thought this might
>>>>address your need.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>Hmmm... I guess it *could* be a "common" type thing but
>>>it seems more of a Xerces-* sub-project. For example,
>>>the Xerces-J parser could have an HTML sub-project that
>>>includes the HTML DOM and an HTML parser built on the
>>>XNI foundation.
>>
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