PMC
No one from Batik wants to be on the PMC
We need to finish revisions to the XML charter and elect a new PMC chair
Issues needing attention:
Axkit
Work has begun on a port to Apache 2.0. This is going well, and is down to the niggly details.
Batik
Batik 1.5beta 5 was released on March 23, 2003.
Commons
Unfortunately there hasn't been much release work in Commons, although we could use a tagged and verified release of each of the components. I was hoping to get the subsetted documentation forrestized first but haven't had any time to work on it.
Resolver has had several bugfixes, since no-one has complained with more problems we could definitely use a point release of this component.
We have had some participation on the mailing list, including J.Pietschmann <j3322ptm@yahoo.de>'s proposed XInclude processor, which generated some good discussion with Xerces-folk and Cocoon-folk alike. We haven't had the critical mass yet to make the final decision, partly because we're trying to figure the proper home and usage for such a tool.
One status question we should start to ask each project is also their status on getting mirrorable dists setup a'la Jakarta land; this is something we should be more organized about getting moving so we can better use the mirrors and save bandwidth.
FOP
No releases since last quarterly report. Release Candidate 3 of 0.20.5 is due in the next few days. This will be the last RC before the final 0.20.5 release which will also conclude the development (only bugfixing ATM) on the maintenance branch. All development after that will continue in HEAD (redesign). Progress in HEAD is slow.
License issues with hyphenation pattern files are still pending. A test run for the whole license clean-up process where an author of an original hyphenation pattern file faxed in a grant document is still pending confirmation of grant receipt. Jeremias Maerki has pinged Jim Jagielski twice but got no response. Status of this process is here: http://nagoya.apache.org/wiki/apachewiki.cgi?FOPAudits/March2003
Forrest
Xalan-C ++
Xalan-C++ 1.5 was released on April 29.
Xalan-J/XSLTC
The XSLTC_DTM branch has been merged with the HEAD branch along with updated serializer code now used by both Xalan-J and XSLTC. These changes were released in Xalan-J/XSLTC 2.5.0 on April 14.
The Xalan-J/XSLTC community is also happy to welcome three new committers: Lionel Villard, Arun Yadav and Brian Minchau!
Xerces-C++
Xercesc2.3 is to be released on May 23, 2003 (as scheduled), which has these features (listed below) implemented:
{{{ .XML 1.1
- Namespace in XML1.1
- More DOM L3
- Schema 1.0 Errata
- Pluggable Memory Manager
- Pluggable Security Manager
Pluggable PanicHandler
- Logical Path Resolution }}}
Xerces-J
The last release of Xerces-J was 2.4.0, which emerged on March 27. We have had one person nominated for committer status in the last quarter, but, so far at least, that has only garnered two +1's (no -1's) so is stalled. There have been no recent major technical discussions in the community.
Xerces-P
Xindice
No release since last quarter report: code is almost ready and stable, but documentation is missing and time from developers is quite short ATM. Anyway, the 1.1 release is expected sometime soon. No new committers were nominated during this timeframe, though someone has recently stepped up on the ML to volunteer in helping the Xindice team. Notable accomplishments during this period have been Gump integration and some work on unit tests.
XML-Security
The XML-Security project has released beta 0.2 of the C++ library, implementing XML Digital Signature support and is close to releasing a stable 1.00. Continuing work revolves around minor bug fixing and implementing a few remaining elements within the standard. From there, implementation will move to the XML Encryption standard.
The Java library now has a beta implementation of the XML Encryption standard, and work continues in making this stable and ready for public release.