Re: Planning to close EXPath Community Group due to inactivity unless we hear from you

Hi Liam,

I’d like to focus on the question: what value is the group providing?

If the group is not providing value to more than a few people, we should close it (and reduce our overhead costs, etc.).

If the group is providing value, then it would be great to understand what that is, and to communicate to more people who might also want to participate.

I understand from your comment below that there’s a set of people important to progress in two groups. If those people are working on a constellation of related specifications (even if xpath is used outside of xslt). Could we have one group for all these related specifications? There are 72 people in the two groups, 9 of whom are in both groups. Some people will focus on some specifications and not others. 

Ian

> On Jun 30, 2024, at 10:19 PM, Liam R. E. Quin <liam@fromoldbooks.org> wrote:
> 
> On Sun, 2024-06-30 at 22:04 -0500, Ian Jacobs wrote:
>> Hi Mohamed,
>> 
>> I am checking in on the topic of next steps for the EXPath CG,
>> following any discussion that took place in Prague.
> 
> Although i was not able to get to Prague, i am wondering what problems
> might be caused by just leaving this CG open.
> 
> It is not very active right now because the people who would work on it
> are actually busy working on XPath 4 and XSLT 4 (and maybe XQuery 4),
> in another CG. But as that work advances it’s likely there will be work
> to bring the expath specs in line with XPath 4.
> 
> liam
> 
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