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No development activity though some time was spent on cleaning up some old issues in Bugzilla. In particular, we finally got around to responding to the bug report (https://issues.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=44426) by the W3C on the excessive number of requests they receive for the same DTDs, XML Schemas and other XML resources. Xerces-J already bundles the XML Commons Resolver and provides documentation on how to use it. While we're sympathetic to the W3C's plight we feel there's nothing more that we can do, since changing the default behaviour (which has been that way for over 10 years) in Xerces-J has the potential to break a large number of existing applications.
General
We have two new PMC members. Mukul Gandhi and Khaled Noaman were added to the PMC at the beginning of May.