Some weeks back, we posted a proposal for the gXML project.
We've gotten a lot of excellent feedback from people who contact us in
response to that proposal, and from people we've contacted directly.
Thanks to all who have sent us feedback! We've gotten close to what
might work for an Apache project, including offers of mentoring &
championing, but really, just not quite enough interest, at least that
we can tell.
In the expected of the Apache way, we've received plenty of constructive
criticism. The overwhelming concern is that other technologies - like
NoSQL databases - are now far more attractive than something as "last
decade" as XML technologies. So the concern is that we won't be able to
sustain a community.
To which we say: "fair enough." We need to prove it. So we will. We've
started hosting the project at Google Code:
http://code.google.com/p/gxml/
We intend to follow what we understand of the Apache way as best we can
- including holding discussions publicly, voting on releases publicly,
paying careful attention to licensing concerns, using tools that Apache
folks are comfortable with (Maven), and generally making sure other
people are comfortable with getting involved.
We encourage you to come follow us to our new site. We've also have a
mailing list (http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/gxml-dev/) and a blog
(http://opensourcegxml.wordpress.com/), if you're not yet really wanting
to look deeply at code.
And once we've developed a more credible community (hopefully including
some of you!), we plan on coming back!
Thanks for all the support so far. Feel free to drop me an email
directly if you wish, or join the mailing list.
-Eric Johnson
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