Incubation is a fine idea here. I think that the project is at high risk of not making it to top-level because of the voting requirements, but if the committer and PMC can be built, it should be a fine (quiet) project.
And it should never be viewed as a failure or even a problem for a project to leave incubation in some other direction than as a top-level project. Apache is right for some and not for others. On Thu, May 21, 2015 at 6:44 PM, Ralph Goers <ralph.go...@dslextreme.com> wrote: > 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 > >
