Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT]: Apache Xerces-J 2.12.0 now available

2018-05-10 Thread dbrosIus
You missed the point. If I publish an artifact to maven when my artifact depends on xerces, my users will come at me with pitch forks.  Original message From: "Eric J. Schwarzenbach" Date: 5/10/18 5:28 PM (GMT-05:00) To: j-users@xerces.apache.org Subject: Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT]: Apache Xerces-J 2.12.0 now available

2018-05-10 Thread Michael Glavassevich
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 wrote on 05/10/2018 05:15:22 PM: > From: Dave Brosius > To: j-users@xerces.apache.or

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT]: Apache Xerces-J 2.12.0 now available

2018-05-10 Thread Eric J. Schwarzenbach
On 05/10/2018 02:39 AM, Mukul Gandhi wrote: Hi Dave, On Thu, May 10, 2018 at 11:23 AM, Dave Brosius mailto: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

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT]: Apache Xerces-J 2.12.0 now available

2018-05-10 Thread Dave Brosius
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

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT]: Apache Xerces-J 2.12.0 now available

2018-05-10 Thread Michael Glavassevich
Oops, typo: implemented of fixed in Xerces --> implemented or fixed in Xerces. Michael Glavassevich XML Technologies and WAS Development IBM Toronto Lab E-mail: mrgla...@ca.ibm.com E-mail: mrgla...@apache.org "Michael Glavassevich" wrote on 05/10/2018 01:48:52 PM: > From: "Michael Glavassevic

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT]: Apache Xerces-J 2.12.0 now available

2018-05-10 Thread Michael Glavassevich
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.