Hello,
   Thanks for the feedback. I've written my thoughts below.

On Thu, Apr 19, 2018 at 2:48 PM, sebb <[email protected]> wrote:

> MD5 hashes are now deprecated and should please be removed from the
> download area (and download page)
>

If we look at the download area of Xerces, i.e
http://xerces.apache.org/mirrors.cgi

The previous Xerces-J release (2.11.0) has published a MD5 hash, that's why
I included it. But you're right in saying, " MD5 hashes are now
deprecated". The release signing information at,
http://www.apache.org/dev/release-signing.html#md5 says,
"Please note that the security of MD5 is now questionable and is only
useful as part of a defense in depth.". I think, this wording still gives
us permission to use MD5 hashes (via this, " and is only useful as part of
a defense in depth").


> Tags are not immutable, so for definiteness please include the
> revision in VOTE mails;
>
> for example
>
> Last Changed Rev: 26416
>
>
> > [2] http://svn.apache.org/viewvc/xerces/java/tags/Xerces-J_2_12_0/
>
> Directory revision:1829504 (of 1829520)
>
> > [3]
> > http://svn.apache.org/viewvc/xerces/java/tags/Xerces-J_2_
> 12_0-xml-schema-1.1/
>
> Directory revision:1829505 (of 1829520)
>
>
I used this mail as template for the VOTE mail,
https://markmail.org/message/clmyb53ju4jtghb4 that Michael Glavassevich
wrote for the 2.10.0 release. This mentions only the URLs of the Tag
locations. No revision information is mentioned over there.



-- 
Regards,
Mukul Gandhi

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