On Wed, Apr 12, 2023 at 2:53 PM Mukul Gandhi <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> Hi Joseph,
>     Thanks for the thoughts, and I agree with you.
>
> On Wed, Apr 12, 2023 at 7:45 PM Joseph Kesselman <[email protected]> wrote:
> >
> > Why would you fork a new development branch from anything but master/main?
>
> We shall first, make xalan-java repos's master branch's contents same
> as that of the branch xalan-j_2_7_1_maint.

+1

> Then we'll create the
> branch xalan-j_xslt3.0 from this newly updated master branch.
>

+0

> For xalan-test repos, we can directly create branch
> xalan-j_xslt3.0_tests from the master branch.

-1

We should combine the test and the model repos. Two repos is very
inconvenient. The goal is a single repo where single commands like
"ant install" (or whatever it's called) compile everything, run all
tests, and package the results up.

Also, we should move to Github first development. Most other Apache
projects already do this. That Xalan doesn't is simply due to its age
(predating git) and lack of developers for the last decade. The lack
of developers is exacerbated by idiosyncratic build processes and
development tools. Spending time moving to de facto standard processes
(tests in the same repo as the code, Github first, publishing on Maven
Central) should easily pay back the effort expended.

-- 
Elliotte Rusty Harold
[email protected]

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