Could POI take on XMLbeans as a second product? If they intend to maintain it, and can provide 3+ PMC members who will vote on releases, then presumably the POI project could make releases of the Apache XMLBeans product?
Then there's no naming issues, everyone benefits from public releases. At such a point as there is enough interest, it can fork back into its own community. POI committers would gain commit rights on an XMLBeans repo. Upayavira On Tue, 7 Nov 2017, at 04:59 PM, Javen O'Neal wrote: > Any other project using XMLBeans on Android would likely be affected by > the > same issue. Making the XMLBeans update within the POI source code or POI > maven coordinates would make it more difficult for others to find this > update. > > If we had to change the Java package name to > org.apache.poi.internal.xmlbeans, it would take a bit of trickery to > allow > users to continue using the official releases, XMLBeans 2.3.0 or 2.6.0 if > the bug doesn't affect them. > > On Nov 7, 2017 03:41, "sebb" <seb...@gmail.com> wrote: > > On 7 November 2017 at 07:20, jan iversen <jancasacon...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > > > Sent from my iPad > > > >> On 6 Nov 2017, at 21:47, Dominik Stadler <dominik.stad...@gmx.at> wrote: > >> > >> Hi, > >> > >> The Apache XMLBeans library was moved to the Attic a few years ago > >> (05/2014), however Apache POI still uses the library as it's core XML > >> binding framework. > >> > >> While the Apache POI PMC and the development community is already > >> discussing possible replacements for some time, use of XMLBeans is still > >> deeply rooted and thus hard to replace quickly. > >> > >> Over time, we discovered a few grave bugs in XMLBeans which lead to > >> bug-reports that we cannot fix ourselves. > >> > >> Therefore we would like to start discussion about an NMU of XMLBeans to > get > >> a fix for the most pressing issues. > >> > >> See https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=59268 for the full > >> discussion,and https://github.com/pjfanning/xmlbeans for a fork with > >> initial bugfixes. > >> > >> Among others, we would like to fix the following, changes for these are > >> already applied and verified in the github fork: > >> * the official XMLBeans-JAR contains duplicate classes, making it > >> impossible to use it on Android as the Android build fails due to this > >> * cannot use Unicode surogates, thus affecting use of Apache POI in > >> non-latin-script areas > >> * Remove W3C and JAVAX classes which are not needed any more since Java 6 > >> (current Apache POI development is on Java 8) > >> > >> > >> So is there a precedent for something like this? What steps do we need to > >> make to get an updated version of XMLBeans published? > > > > Others might have examples of how it was done in the past. Making a fork > on e.g. github with a new non-apache name is the simplest way. > > > > However if I understand it correct your intention is only to maintain > XMLbeans for the benefit of POI. That gives you (as I see it) another > option, you can include the source code in your project and do the > patches > as part of your project. > > I think it would need to be in a different package to avoid possible > confusion with the original. > And it should be obvious that it is not intended for external use. > > e.g. org.apache.poi.internal.xmlbeans > > > rgds > > jan i > >> > >> > >> Thanks... Dominik > >> > >> On behalf of the Apache POI PMC > >> > >> > >> About Apache POI > >> ----------------------- > >> > >> Apache POI is well-known in the Java field as a library for reading and > >> writing Microsoft Office file formats, such as Excel, PowerPoint, Word, > >> Visio, Publisher and Outlook. It supports both the older (OLE2) and > >> new (OOXML - Office Open XML) formats. > >> > >> See https://poi.apache.org/ for more details > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@poi.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@poi.apache.org --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@poi.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@poi.apache.org
