For Apache Commons, how well did that work for improving activity? Michael Glavassevich XML Technologies and WAS Development IBM Toronto Lab E-mail: mrgla...@ca.ibm.com E-mail: mrgla...@apache.org
Dave Brosius <dbros...@mebigfatguy.com> wrote on 05/10/2018 05:15:22 PM: > From: Dave Brosius <dbros...@mebigfatguy.com> > To: j-users@xerces.apache.org > Date: 05/10/2018 05:16 PM > Subject: Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT]: Apache Xerces-J 2.12.0 now available > > What Apache Commons did, in a similar circumstance was unilaterally > open up committership to all commons projects to a much wider > audience. Perhaps Xerces should consider doing that as well. > > On 05/10/2018 01:48 PM, Michael Glavassevich wrote: > Folks, it took us 7 years and 5 months to get a new release out. I > would hope that alone would make it evident that this project needs > more help from the community if it's going to keep moving forward. > > I see at least a few people feel strongly about Maven and would > encourage them to contribute. The same goes for anything else you > feel passionate about seeing implemented of fixed in Xerces. > > Thanks. > > Michael Glavassevich > XML Technologies and WAS Development > IBM Toronto Lab > E-mail: mrgla...@ca.ibm.com > E-mail: mrgla...@apache.org > > Mukul Gandhi <muk...@apache.org> wrote on 05/10/2018 02:39:32 AM: > > > Hi Dave, > > > > On Thu, May 10, 2018 at 11:23 AM, Dave Brosius <dbros...@mebigfatguy.com > > > wrote: > > Yes, but if i want to publish an artifact to maven, and my artifact > > depends on xerces, are you expecting all the users of my artifact to > > do the same? And if someone else creates an artifact based on my > > artifact, etc, etc.? > > As far as I know, Maven provides following ways to fetch build > dependencies: > > > > 1) Get dependencies from a global Maven repository. This requires a > > connection to internet. Some environments prohibit an internet > > connection. Also on slow internet connections, getting tons of > > artifacts from the global Maven repository during the build may bedifficult. > > 2) Get dependencies from a Maven repository on an Intranet server. > > 3) Get dependencies from a Maven repository on the local host. > > > > You & people in favor of your point seems to say that 1) above is > > the best/only method. But clearly, 2) is also another method. Of > > course, 3) above is also yet another method for fetching Maven dependencies. > > > > -- > > Regards, > > Mukul Gandhi
