On Mon, Nov 15, 2010 at 9:44 PM, Michael Glavassevich <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi Hiranya, > > Hiranya Jayathilaka <[email protected]> wrote on 11/15/2010 01:47:56 AM: > >> Hi Michael, >> >> This is a very good migration plan. Regarding the mailing lists, I'm >> usually bit hesitant on merging a mailing list to another. But I believe >> the traffic level on these lists are not that high. So it should be fine. > > I happen to be subscribed to the "new" and merged [email protected] list, so > am quite aware of how such moves can annoy and chase away some of the > subscribers, but I think it's the right thing to do with the commits list > for XML Commons. > >> However it would be great if we can somehow tag the >> commit mails to indicate the project name, so subscribers can easily >> filter them out. > > Should be easy to filter based on the subject line, e.g. grepping for > "/xerces/java/" vs. "/xerces/c/" vs. "/xerces/xml-commons/".
+1 Thanks, Hiranya > >> Thanks, >> Hiranya >> >> 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] >> >> >> >> -- >> Hiranya Jayathilaka >> Senior Software Engineer; >> WSO2 Inc.; http://wso2.org >> E-mail: [email protected]; Mobile: +94 77 633 3491 >> Blog: http://techfeast-hiranya.blogspot.com >> >> --------------------------------------------------------------------- >> To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] >> For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected] > > Michael Glavassevich > XML Parser Development > IBM Toronto Lab > E-mail: [email protected] > E-mail: [email protected] -- Hiranya Jayathilaka Senior Software Engineer; WSO2 Inc.; http://wso2.org E-mail: [email protected]; Mobile: +94 77 633 3491 Blog: http://techfeast-hiranya.blogspot.com --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected]
