Hi Steven,
Its great to see there is so much support for the project still! I am
very hopeful we can all make it a success.
Cheers,
Gareth
On 1 Jul 2011, at 09:27, Steve Hathaway wrote:
> Xalan PMC, you have my support!
>
> Committee Information:
>
> There are still significant JIRA issues that need minor work or need to be
> closed relating to Xalan-C version 1.11. As I work on the product
> documentation, I will also try to address the outstanding JIRA issues. There
> are a few that are significant patches that need to be made to the Xalan-C
> trunk. I'll research the critical issues and report back to this list.
>
> If the review process is not stalled, I should have a completed Xalan-C/C++
> version 1.11 user guide ready in September 2011. The bulk of the work should
> be completed sometime in August 2011.
>
> Again, I give thanks to the reformed Xalan PMC. There are some
> infrastructure details that need to be handled in order to publish a new
> release of Xalan-C.
>
> As for managing the xalan/c repository, I have some items for discussion.
>
> The xalan/c/<trunk> currently serves numerous customers that use the Xalan-C
> v.1.11 snapshots in their products. The <trunk> should be maintained for
> this support until Xalan-C v1.11 is officially released as a product and
> posted on the ASF mirrors.
>
> Xalan-C Version 2 should be on an xalan/c/<branch> for development until
> after Xalan-C v1.11 is released. When Xalan-C v2.0 has some usability and
> version 1 has no further development, then Version 2 can be moved to the
> <trunk> and patches to Version 1 can be done in a <branch>.
>
>
> Binary Package Builds:
>
> I can create binary packages builds for Microsoft VS-2003, 2005, 2008, and
> possibly 2010. I might even be able to restore old Microsoft MSDN software
> to create a binary package for Visual Studio (VS6).
>
> I can create binary packages on Debian Linux. I don't have Red Hat package
> management tools. One of my co-workers has BSD unix on several virtual
> machines.
>
> I have vendors that maintain software on IBM Z-OS mainframes, AIX on RS-6000
> clusters, IBM AS400, and Linux on IBM mainframes. I don't know of their
> programming staff resources that they might contribute to the effort.
>
> I have a vendor that maintain system software for HP-UX on the HP RISC
> fault-tolerant clusters.
>
> I know of vendors that maintain software on Solaris systems, but am unclear
> on their programming skills. Many years ago I created and maintained
> software using the Solaris package management tools.
>
> Any committers willing to provide binary packages for evaluation would be
> welcome to participate.
>
>
> Sincerely,
> Steven J. Hathaway
>
> P.S.
> A Research Project: I am trying to design a high-performance engine that
> operates as a stand-alone XML document transformation appliance. A library
> of stylesheets are to be cached in a compiled state. The incoming connection
> would supply an XML document and identify a stylesheet for transformation.
> The outgoing communications would be the transformed document or indicate a
> set of errors found in the transformation. I am still researching the
> architecture requirements and the capabilities of existing development
> efforts.
>
> Some of my future transformation requirements can be massive. Several
> families of XML schemas define 86,000 to 180,000 distinct elements catalogued
> into numerous namespaces. I see in the near future that one XML family in
> the US Dept. of Justice will embrace over 400,000 cataloged elements in a
> family of XML schema definitions. This also requires massive stylesheet
> capability to accommodate the related transformations. In such a system, I
> see the need to be able to perform 5-40 transformations per second (with
> parallel operations).
>
> ========================
>
> Bertrand Wrote:
>
> Hi Xalan community,
>>>
>>> I'm pleased to announce that the ASF board has voted for re-establish
>>> the Xalan PMC as follows:
>>>
>>> * David Bertoni (dbertoni, PMC chair)
>>> * Gareth Reakes (gareth)
>>> * Tim Williams (twilliams)
>>> * Sanjiva Weerawarana (sanjiva)
>>> * Gary D. Gregory (ggregory)
>>> * Michael Glavassevich (mrglavas)
>>> * Bertrand Delacretaz (bdelacretaz)
>>>
>>> Existing PMC members (apart from David who was the only active one
>>> left) have been discharged from their PMC responsibilities. If any of
>>> those folks want to become active again they're more than welcome, of
>>> course.
>
> = =
>
>>> Also, I think a special report should be prepared for the next board
>>> meeting, on July 20th, to get back on track with those reports.
>>>
>>> Thanks,
>>> -Bertrand
>>>
>
>
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