Re: Incubation vs. Donating Code to Existing Project

2006-02-04 Thread William A. Rowe, Jr.
In this case, if the Xerces folks don't want to take responsibility for creating the community / committment to the code, then they absolutely can ask for the code to undergo the full incubuation process. But if they choose instead to assume responsibility for the long term committment to this ac

Re: Incubation vs. Donating Code to Existing Project

2006-02-04 Thread Leo Simons
On Tue, Jan 31, 2006 at 10:43:45AM -0800, Andy Clark wrote: > /me removes Zimbra hat. > > For the past several years, I've wanted to donate my HTML > parser code built on Xerces-J to the Xerces project. It is > written using the Xerces Native Interface and provides HTML > parsing with XML APIs. >

Re: Incubation vs. Donating Code to Existing Project

2006-02-04 Thread Jeremias Maerki
IMO, going through the Incubator is not mandatory. The Xerces PMC could decide to integrate CyberNeko (right?) into Xerces-J as an additional component/feature. If it depends on Xerces-J and is a useful addition to Xerces but has too little mass to lead a life on its own, I'd say it could make a fi

Incubation vs. Donating Code to Existing Project

2006-02-03 Thread Andy Clark
/me removes Zimbra hat. For the past several years, I've wanted to donate my HTML parser code built on Xerces-J to the Xerces project. It is written using the Xerces Native Interface and provides HTML parsing with XML APIs. When I mentioned donating the code to the project, it was suggested that