I used to use Apache Velocity. However, it hasn’t had a release since 2010 and the overall project activity has been minimal for years. As a consequence of that, and a feature that was missing, I recently switched to using Freemarker for some templating work I needed to do. The only reason I mention Velocity is I am wondering what relationship these two projects should have, if any. I am also concerned that if interest in development of Freemarker is decreasing is it going to suffer the same fate? I guess what I am wondering is if there is some way these two communities and/or technologies could combine?
FWIW, I’d be happy to mentor this project. If I had the time I know I’d want to commit, but that has been in extremely short supply of late. Ralph > On May 21, 2015, at 4:38 PM, Marvin Humphrey <mar...@rectangular.com> wrote: > > On Thu, May 21, 2015 at 7:11 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. > > 4 Mentors is a good number, though! > > It's true that there aren't many initial committers, but the proposal > addresses this issue at length. > > https://wiki.apache.org/incubator/FreemarkerProposal#Known_Risks > > While it continues to have a large user base, the active developer > community has become rather small at this point, and we think that the > "Apache Way" governance model and being part of the ASF (together with > other projects that are already using Freemarker) would help to bring new > life and energy to the project to better support the maintenance and > improvements of the Freemarker codebase. > > I think this is a reasonable plan and definitely worth a shot at incubating. > The Incubator has a mixed history with podlings that start small, but > Freemarker has an advantage over many of those because it begins with a large > user base and wide adoption. > > Marvin Humphrey > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: general-unsubscr...@incubator.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: general-h...@incubator.apache.org > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: general-unsubscr...@incubator.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: general-h...@incubator.apache.org
