Re: Future of EXSLT

> we decided
> that moving to a wiki is probably the best way to breathe life back into
> the project.  We could control who has write access to avoid wiki
> vandalization issues, but at the same time we could open things up so
> that more people can contribute.

That's great news. Thank you, Uche.

Could you, please, confirm to the EXSLT list the common understanding that whenever a given specification is has reached a state to be considerd stable it will be "frozen" in a red-only webpage at exslt.org?
 Cheers,


Dimitre 



----- Original Message ----
> From: Uche Ogbuji <[email protected]>
> To: EXSLT Mailing List <[email protected]>
> Sent: Thursday, December 18, 2008 9:32:16 AM
> Subject: [exslt] Future of EXSLT
> 
> Years ago we got EXSLT to a just-barely-good-enough stage, and since
> then the project has been stagnant.  Lately the community has rightly
> clamored to keep the project moving forward.  Long-standing problems
> such as unclear license and unclear reference implementations really
> should be addressed, and of course there is a lot a lot of energy about
> establishing extensions for XSLT 2.0.
> 
> The original managers (Jim Fuller, Dave Pawson, Jeni Tennison and I) had
> a discussion, with contribution from Florent and Dimitre, and we decided
> that moving to a wiki is probably the best way to breathe life back into
> the project.  We could control who has write access to avoid wiki
> vandalization issues, but at the same time we could open things up so
> that more people can contribute.
> 
> I spoke to my fellow partners at Zepheira, and we're willing to host the
> wiki, backed by a full-time sysadmin resource.  Eventually we can host
> the mailing list as well (they're on Fourthought servers at present) but
> the Web site is the most pressing issue right now.
> 
> In terms of wiki set up, the initial contributors, the migration from
> the current site, and such issues, I'll start a separate thread for such
> community discussions.
> 
> Thanks.
> 
> 
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