[nekohtml-user] Welcome to the NekoHTML Project!

[Andy C. <an...@cy...>]

This has been a long time coming. I had hoped that the
NekoHTML parser would find a home as part of the Xerces-J
project at Apache. But I was looking for an adoption and
they didn't want anything thrown over the wall, so to
speak. So I have *finally* been pushed into creating a
SourceForge project[1] by numerous users of the code.

The great thing about having the project hosted at
SourceForge is that we get real source control, mailing
lists, issue tracking, and perhaps most importantly, I
have a way to allow others to hack on the code and help
me out as it continues to evolve.


So far I have done the following:

* Imported the source code

Now all versions of the source, from release 0.1 through
0.9.5 has been checked into Subversion (SVN). The current
codebase is checked in under trunk[2], and all of the
releases are found in the branches[3] directory. You can
browse the SVN repository[4] to see how it is setup.

* Created the mailing lists

We have two mailing lists[5], nekohtml-user and
nekohtml-developer. The user mailing list is for
questions, comments, and general usage discussions.
Whereas the developer mailing list is for design and
development discussions. The latter is where we will
talk about design changes, releases, etc.


Even though I've made a good start on the project, 
there is still a lot of work to do. Here is a list of
the things still left to do:

* Import release packages

I want to upload the download packages for all of the
version of NekoHTML. This is a good idea for archiving
purposes as well as allowing people to get the latest
version while we are working on a new release.

* Update license

Currently, the code is released under an Apache-style
license. In other words, I took the Apache V1 license
and changed "Apache" to "CyberNeko". I understand that 
this has caused people some problems in integrating the
parser with their code due to company restrictions. So 
I want to change the license to vanilla Apache V2[6].

* Change directory structure

Previously, the NekoHTML parser was part of a larger
development project that I called the "CyberNeko Tools
for XNI". As such, I had organized the directories so
as to keep the source separate. For example, there was
a src/dtd/ directory, a src/html/ directory, etc. Now
that NekoHTML is a full-fledged project of its own, I
want to clean this up and go back to just src/ as the
root of the source code tree. Similar changes will be
needed in other directories.

* Update build script

Aside from the changes required by changing the dir
structure, I want to update the build script to take
advantage of changes in Ant since the time I started
the project; and also to follow standard Java project
conventions. For example, building into build/
instead of bin/, etc.


There are probably more things to be done but that's
a good enough list for the moment. Anyway, welcome
to the project!


Links:

[1] http://sourceforge.net/projects/nekohtml/
[2] https://nekohtml.svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/nekohtml/trunk
[3] https://nekohtml.svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/nekohtml/branches
[4] http://nekohtml.svn.sourceforge.net/viewvc/nekohtml/
[5] http://sourceforge.net/mail/?group_id=195122
[6] http://apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0


-- 
Andy Clark - an...@cy...