As an interesting aside, increasing the scope of Freemarker might improve sexiness.
Consider extending to be a Scala templating engine. Or some similar small effort that ropes in a new community. On Fri, May 22, 2015 at 12:43 PM, Jacopo Cappellato < jacopo.cappell...@gmail.com> wrote: > Some misc comments on the great feedback we have received so far (thanks > to all for your help and interest): > > * Sergio, Ralph, we are happy to have you as mentors of Freemarker. I have > edited the proposal document to include you in the mentors group; five > mentors is plenty, so we should be good under this aspect. Jacques, you > offered to mentor in another thread; thanks but for mentoring it's required > to be a member of the IPMC or of the ASF > > * I agree with Bertrand and Ted that it will be mandatory for this project > to build a larger community: in fact we are aware about this and are > determined to work hard to grow an healthy (even if small) community, if we > will be accepted in the Incubator; some good ideas have been proposed in > this thread by John and Chris about how to do this and we will discuss > other ideas as well > > * Julian and Ralph mentioned Velocity as a somewhat similar project; it is > definitely true that there are similarities in scope (they are both Java > template engines) but we don't think that merging them would be a good fit > because there are big differences in the architecture, codebase, philosophy > and history; as you have suggested we are going to include a sentence that > explains the relationship with Velocity in our proposal > > Regards, > > Jacopo > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: general-unsubscr...@incubator.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: general-h...@incubator.apache.org > >
