Re: [xml] Resuming maintenance

[Stefan Behnel]

Nick Wellnhofer via xml schrieb am 10.01.22 um 15:20:
Thanks to a donation from Google, I'm able to resume maintenance of libxml2 
(and libxslt) for the remainder of 2022.


I'm very happy to read this, Nick. All the best for 2022.

Stefan
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Re: [xml] Resuming maintenance

[Mike Dalessio via xml]

I'm so happy to hear that you'll be able to spend time on libxml2 this
year, Nick. Thank you and thanks to Google.

Although I'm relieved, the potential loss of maintainers from the project
 was
alarming. Perhaps another goal to consider for the year is to expand the
pool of contributors and maintainers. I (and others, I assume) am
interested in volunteering more time so that the burden isn't carried by
you alone, and so that if in the future you're unable to secure funding the
user community will be able to sustain that loss.

Thanks again, and please think about what work volunteers can pick up to
get more involved.

On Mon, Jan 10, 2022 at 9:20 AM Nick Wellnhofer via xml 
wrote:

> Hello,
>
> Thanks to a donation from Google, I'm able to resume maintenance of
> libxml2
> (and libxslt) for the remainder of 2022.
>
> My immediate plans are:
>
> - Make a bug fix release fixing many regressions.
> - Establish a new release schedule, possibly with multiple branches being
>maintained.
> - Move releases from the old FTP server to GNOME's Gitlab infrastructure.
> - Move documentation to GNOME infrastructure.
> - Set up an official way to sponsor libxml2 maintainers.
>
> In the future I'll focus less on security improvements and more on typical
> maintenance duties like bug fixes and modernizing the code base in a few
> ways.
>
> Thanks (again) to Google for making this possible.
>
> Nick
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Re: [xml] Resuming maintenance

[Stefan de Konink]

Dear Nick,

This is great news, thanks Google for acknowledging the importance of 
maintaining core open source products. Your previous improvements on XSD 
validation made a great difference, but from my prototype in Python (LXML) 
I assume that multithreaded constraint validation and a more efficient way 
of storage would gain additional performance on files larger than 500MB. 
One may ask if no 'green fund' would be able to donate money on these type 
of improvements.


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[xml] Resuming maintenance

[Nick Wellnhofer via xml]

Hello,

Thanks to a donation from Google, I'm able to resume maintenance of libxml2 
(and libxslt) for the remainder of 2022.


My immediate plans are:

- Make a bug fix release fixing many regressions.
- Establish a new release schedule, possibly with multiple branches being
  maintained.
- Move releases from the old FTP server to GNOME's Gitlab infrastructure.
- Move documentation to GNOME infrastructure.
- Set up an official way to sponsor libxml2 maintainers.

In the future I'll focus less on security improvements and more on typical 
maintenance duties like bug fixes and modernizing the code base in a few ways.


Thanks (again) to Google for making this possible.

Nick
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