Hi Michael,
I concur with you that it's logical to move XML commons project to
Xerces site, since it consists of building blocks for our XML work.
So +1 from me for this :)
On Sun, Nov 14, 2010 at 11:24 PM, Michael Glavassevich
<[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> With the XML project appearing to be slowly shutting down (Xindice is now
> the only project left there) I think it's time we fully moved XML Commons
> over to Xerces. In my opinion these changes are long overdue.
>
> Here's what I'm proposing:
>
> ==================================
>
> 1) Move the website to xerces.apache.org
>
> Proposing the new site address to be http://xerces.apache.org/xml-commons
> and set up a permanent redirect to it for old links to
> http://xml.apache.org/commons
>
> 2) Move the download area to http://www.apache.org/dist/xerces
>
> Releases would be located under
> http://www.apache.org/dist/xerces/xml-commons with a permanent redirect set
> up for links to the old one http://www.apache.org/dist/xml/commons
>
> 3) Move the 2 XML Commons mailing lists on to @xerces.apache.org
>
> [email protected] --> [email protected]
> [email protected] --> merge into the existing
> [email protected]
>
> All of Xerces' other sub-projects share the same commits list. Hoping this
> will improve oversight / awareness of activities in XML Commons in the rest
> of the project.
>
> 4) Migrate XML Commons from Bugzilla to JIRA
>
> All of Xerces' other sub-projects track their issues in JIRA. Occasionally
> issues are opened against XML Commons which should have really gone to
> Xerces-J or Xalan. Right now we return these as invalid and ask the reporter
> to reopen against the correct project in JIRA. With this move we can
> transfer the issue to the right JIRA project on their behalf.
>
> 5) Move XML Commons to Xerces SVN
>
> Proposing that we move this out from 'xml/commons' to 'xerces/xml-commons'
> (with no change to the committer list).
>
> ==================================
>
> I believe that covers everything. If no one objects I'll start the process
> of moving things over.
>
> Thanks.
>
> Michael Glavassevich
> XML Parser Development
> IBM Toronto Lab
> E-mail: [email protected]
> E-mail: [email protected]
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Regards,
Mukul Gandhi
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