Or rather Apache Groovy :-) 2015-05-23 1:04 GMT+02:00 Ted Dunning <ted.dunn...@gmail.com>:
> 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 > > > > > -- Guillaume Laforge Groovy Project Manager Product Ninja & Advocate at Restlet <http://restlet.com> Blog: http://glaforge.appspot.com/ Social: @glaforge <http://twitter.com/glaforge> / Google+ <https://plus.google.com/u/0/114130972232398734985/posts>
