August 2012 Report

Xerces-J

Our GSoC student (Shakya Wijerama) has been busy working on his project over the summer and will be wrapping that up over the next few weeks.

We're getting more feedback from the community on the XML Schema 1.1 implementation. Several JIRA issues were opened by users which we've addressed with fixes.

Some users are asking again for Xerces jars to be deployed to Apache's Maven repository. None of the committers use Maven or have a personal interest in it so this has never become part of our release process. Deployment to the repository has been managed in the past by volunteers from the user community. Expecting new volunteers with an interest in Maven will need to step up for these sorts of requests to be satisfied.

Mailing list traffic has been moderate; about 200 posts on the j-dev and j-users lists since the beginning of May.

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