Yes, I recently needed a lightweight templating engine (a single jar with no dependencies). I considered Freemarker, but rejected it. A freemarker-lite module would have hit the spot.
Templating may not be sexy anymore, but it is useful for a wide variety of tasks, and it's not going away. Julian On May 22, 2015, at 4:04 PM, Ted Dunning <ted.dunn...@gmail.com> wrote: 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
