Hi Hiranya, Hiranya Jayathilaka <hiranya...@gmail.com> 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 d...@ws.apache.org 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/". > Thanks, > Hiranya > > On Sun, Nov 14, 2010 at 11:24 PM, Michael Glavassevich > <mrgla...@ca.ibm.com> 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 > > > > commons-dev@xml.apache.org --> xml-commons-...@xerces.apache.org > > commons-...@xml.apache.org --> merge into the existing > > comm...@xerces.apache.org > > > > 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: mrgla...@ca.ibm.com > > E-mail: mrgla...@apache.org > > > > -- > Hiranya Jayathilaka > Senior Software Engineer; > WSO2 Inc.; http://wso2.org > E-mail: hira...@wso2.com; Mobile: +94 77 633 3491 > Blog: http://techfeast-hiranya.blogspot.com > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: j-dev-unsubscr...@xerces.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: j-dev-h...@xerces.apache.org Michael Glavassevich XML Parser Development IBM Toronto Lab E-mail: mrgla...@ca.ibm.com E-mail: mrgla...@apache.org
