Daniel and all: We're using XmlBeans quite a bit and are interested to keep this alive as well. Would be great to have more information around the Apache rules/processes, PMC, roles/responsibilities, etc. to understand how we could support the project. best *P
On 7/23/13 5:29 PM, Daniel Lübke wrote: > Hi list, > > I am a long-time user of XMLBeans, most of the time as part of the > BPELUnit project. There is no replacement to XMLBeans because in > contrast to JAXB if preserves namespace declarations so you e.g. read > and write XML document that contain XPath expressions (e.g. BPEL, > BPMN2, ...). > > Although I know XMLBeans only from the user perspective, I would > contribute to it, which includes learning more of its internals, apply > the outstanding patches, test them and so on. > > As far as I understand the Apache rules a project needs to have a > working PMC. This means at least 3 people (for substitution 4 or 5 > would be better) which vote on releases. I also would join a new PMC > if 3 other would be willing to join me and at least build regular > maintainance releases to keep this project alive and reboot its PMC. > > I know that many other projects use XMLBeans, e.g. Apache Camel, > Apache CXX Apache ODE, ... and many non-Apache projects, too. So I > hope that we can find enough interested people to keep this project > alive. > > If you are one of them, please reply to this list. If we are enough > people, I would try to talk to the Apache Foundation. > > Regards, > Daniel > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: user-unsubscr...@xmlbeans.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: user-h...@xmlbeans.apache.org > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: user-unsubscr...@xmlbeans.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: user-h...@xmlbeans.apache.org
