Michael Glavassevich wrote: > Ralph Goers wrote: > > someone wrote: > > > > > > As part of the gradual shutdown of the XML project, the Xerces PMC has > > > agreed some time ago to take over the responsibility for XML Commons. > > > The xml-commons group which you mentioned is basically for committers > > > who only have access to XML commons (mainly Norman Walsh when he still > > > worked on the resolver). Today XML Commons is write-accessible for > > > committers from various projects (Xerces, Xalan, XML Graphics, Cocoon, > > > Forrest etc.). But they don't use that karma very often. Yes, it > > > doesn't > > > have much of a community mainly because the various parts are mostly > > > "too stable". We can change that by reactivating XML Commons with new > > > goals. > > > > > > The virtual link you mentioned is a good idea IMO and seems in line > > > with Henri's ideas of a federated Commons. > > > > Interesting. What is the XML PMC group for? As a Cocoon committer I > > recall having commit privs on xml years ago. I don't believe we do > > anymore though. > > When XML Commons was transferred over to the Xerces PMC I don't believe > anything changed with respect to who has commit privileges. At least there > was no intention of removing anyone.
Yes, other projects can still commit to "xml-commons", currently: xml-pmc cocoon forrest lenya xalan xerces xerces-j xml-commons xml-xindice xmlgraphics-batik xmlgraphics-fop The Xerces PMC could enable other project groups to have authorisation too. > I'm not sure how one checks who > actually has write-access, but I suspect the list includes many folks > who've never committed to the project before and possibly aren't aware that > they can. http://www.apache.org/dev/#pmc ... http://www.apache.org/dev/pmc.html#newcommitter-svn That paragraph mentions the Subversion authorization URL. > > At least, http://people.apache.org/~jim/committers.html doesn't > > reflect it. There must be some lack with the script to build Jim's pages, as http://people.apache.org/~jim/projects.html#xml-commons just shows a basic group of extra people. The script is in his home directory if someone can make a patch for him. -David > > I suspect there is some cocoon stuff that really should > > find a home here eventually as well. > > Cool. > > > Ralph > > Thanks. > > Michael Glavassevich > XML Parser Development > IBM Toronto Lab > E-mail: mrgla...@ca.ibm.com > E-mail: mrgla...@apache.org --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@commons.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@commons.apache.org
