Re: Status of the Xalan-C project (is it abandoned?)

2018-02-24 Thread Paul Hammant
> > If I fork it, I'll have to change the library name, and that will make me > incompatible with the rest of the world--all downstream consumers including > my own. ^ Is an assumption. You could start with the fork on GitHub 'as is' and make one tiny addition to the resulting linkable object. S

Re: Status of the Xalan-C project (is it abandoned?)

2018-02-24 Thread Paul Hammant
GitHub heralded one fantastic thing that didn't exist before - easy forking or a repo. That is more likely to force an 'upstream' dev team to be more benevolent to directions of others. Perhaps because of the possibility of mind-share shifting to the fork and away from the upstream/origin. That div

Re: Non contribution

2018-02-04 Thread Paul Hammant
pull requests). You don't want to donate something to a team that can't consume reasonably quickly. - Paul On Sat, Feb 3, 2018 at 11:03 PM, Thaddeus Brown wrote: > I would like to know how I could become a member or show a contribution? > -- Paul Hammant DevOps <https:

Re: Apache software

2018-01-11 Thread Paul Hammant
Say to unsubscribe from THIS email list 1. send an email to dev-unsubscr...@community.apache.org 2. follow the instructions from the auto-response you get back. It is the -unsubscribe piece you need to add to the email address that starts the unsubscribe workflow for you. -ph

[Maturity Model] similar community efforts

2017-10-28 Thread Paul Hammant
[Nicolas Fränkel posted the link to proggit today] There are two initiatives that spring to mind (and I'm sure I've come across more, but can't recall them right now). 1. Make a README - https://www.makeareadme.com/ 2. Keep A Changelog - http://keepachangelog.com/ *I have a feeling there are thi

Re: Apache project maturity model - is this mail list really where that's discussed?

2017-10-28 Thread Paul Hammant
Just double checking before posting, something longer.

Apache project maturity model - is this mail list really where that's discussed?

2017-10-28 Thread Paul Hammant
According to this page - https://community.apache.org/apache-way/apache-project-maturity-model.html - questions & feedback for the "Apache project maturity model" are made here on dev@community.apache.org. Is that correct? - Paul