HIGHSOURCE PROJECT STATUS UPDATE

2022/04/25 update:

Updated releases have been pushed to Maven Central (0.0.15.1, 0.15.1).

1. New jaxb maven plugin roadmap ticket #233
2. v2.3.6 will be released shortly to over come the inadvertent v1.11.1 release of jaxb2-basics and provide alignment with that module.

Moving forward, please move discussions to the relevant GH issues and roadmap tickets.

Thank you everyone for your patience!

2022/04/04 update:

I added a GitHub Action to auto-build on PR’s and pushes. Moving GitHub issues and milestones will be used to track project progress.

Release plans:

1. Plan to release an artificially low version number to confirm end-to-end via Maven Central.
2. Plan to review open items and release a 0.14.1 for those looking for fixes on 0.14.x.
3. Plan to release a new version as v2.0.0 to align with Jakarta v2.x dependencies (this will probably be 1 release only and be closely aligned with v0.14.1)
4. Plan to release new versions as v3.x and align with Jakarta v3.x dependencies going forward.

All work will continue out of the highsource/maven-jaxb2-plugin repo.

2022/03/25 update:

Progress! The named successor has been able to add me as a contributor to highsource. We are coordinating on how to move forward. Stay tuned-- hope to generate the first test release in the next two weeks.

2022/03/01 update:

I have made contact with GitHub developer relations folks, and they are assisting with moving this forward. Also, the named successor is working to assist in getting this resolved.

2022/02/09 update:

I am in contact with the developer who was named as the successor on Aleksei’s repositories. We both have GitHub support tickets open. However, this is taking a long time without a response to either (mine is up to 26 days). If anyone has a contact at Microsoft, or the GitHub support team a nudge would be helpful!

Original update: I have confirmed with Aleksei’s wife that he passed away last January. My thoughts were that it would be best to continue updates under the ‘highsource’ org. Give Aleksei a solid for the work he did over the years, and provide consistency to users.

I opened a death transfer request with GitHub 2 weeks ago to gain some level of access to the repositories to continue Aleksei’s work out under ‘highsource’. GitHub’s support team is notably behind and has not responded despite several requests for updates.

I plan to give GitHub another few days to respond before looking to next steps.

About me-- I am a long time open source contributor and Apache committer. Professionally, I head up the technical side at HYTE and we have resources we can put to updating the Maven JAXB2 Plugin and jaxb2-basics.

Message from his wife:

Aleksei passed away on 16.1.2021. 
 
https://good-bye.org/alexey-valikov/
 
He would be so proud to know that his projects live after his death. 
 
If you can overtake some projects, that would be great. 

Thanks, Matt

[jedvardsson]

Oh. I am sorry to hear about Aleksei. Rest in piece.

Great initiative, @mattrpav. Thumbs up.

[mattrpav]

UPDATE: Release process looking good. Just waiting on OSSRH to grant permission to release to Maven Central.