I am another happy user of Freemarker. Calcite, Drill and Phoenix all use it as a pre-processor, to stitch together SQL grammar files.
It’s worth reading http://freemarker.org/whoWeAre.html. It gives a sense of how the Freemarker community has self-governed and evolved over its long history, and also their diligence in addressing IP issues. I think it indicates their suitability as an Apache project. I think the "Relationships with Other Apache Products” section should note that Freemarker has a similar purpose to Velocity. Not that similarity with an existing project would prevent acceptance into Apache. Julian On May 21, 2015, at 11:44 AM, Daniel Dekany <ddek...@freemail.hu> wrote: The guys who you see on sf.net or GitHub with commit rights has moved on to do different things, except me and one other guy who is mostly a Web designer professionally. That's one of the reasons why I though that I give it a shot, and see if being an ASF project makes the project more visible/appealing for contributors. I don't know what the experience with that is. Sometimes we get a patch from someone BTW, but that doesn't make the sender a committer of course. Finding people who will work on Freemarker for a longer time seems to be a tricky business, despite that the user base is big. Well, MVC template engines is not the hot topic nowadays, but they are still heavily used. Anyway, I will ping some earlier contributors then. Regarding the other question, yes, there are ASF projects who build on FreeMarker, like OFBiz for example. (And then of course Struts supports it next to JSP and Velocity.) -- Thanks, Daniel Dekany Thursday, May 21, 2015, 8:03:03 PM, Chris Nauroth wrote: As a very satisfied Freemarker user, I'm excited to see this proposal! I agree with the feedback that it would be helpful to have more committers. Marmotta mentioned that they use it, so I wonder if you could draw some interest from members of that community to join as initial committers. Are there other Apache projects that already use Freemarker? --Chris Nauroth On 5/21/15, 9:44 AM, "jler...@apache.org" <jler...@apache.org> wrote: Le 21/05/2015 16:29, John D. Ament a écrit : On Thu, May 21, 2015 at 10:11 AM Bertrand Delacretaz <bdelacre...@apache.org> wrote: Hi, On Thu, May 21, 2015 at 3:38 PM, Sergio Fernández <wik...@apache.org> wrote: ...If you'd need any other mentor, I'm happy to help there (I'm Incubator PMC and ASF Member)... Currently I see three mentors and two committers at https://wiki.apache.org/incubator/FreemarkerProposal, I'm not involved in that podling but it looks to me that additional committers might be more useful than more mentors. >From looking at their graphs, on github, they have 5 total contributors. https://github.com/freemarker/freemarker/graphs/contributors I'm wondering - would the others who aren't on the proposal be interested in joining the proposal? Actually the project is currently at SourceForge as you can see at http://freemarker.org/ and the team is there https://sourceforge.net/p/freemarker/wiki/Home/ I guess some members at least will be interested... Jacques PS: maybe a duplicate, I used my non a.o address on another email, sorry for the noise in case -Bertrand --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: general-unsubscr...@incubator.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: general-h...@incubator.apache.org
