Thanks for the link Martjin! Definitely a late night reading exercise. Maybe since Jukka and Bertrand are around they can give us feedback as well :-)
Either way will digest. John On Sat, Dec 31, 2016 at 7:50 AM Martijn Dashorst <martijn.dasho...@gmail.com> wrote: > For reference, please read this thread from 2008: > > > https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/0b6c065a908c5f9ec39fa78c31b39c83a6fea29eb34fada0ee070413@1222432864@%3Cgeneral.incubator.apache.org%3E > > It has all the arguments for and against the -incubating versioning > label, and why the disclaimer exists. Warning: it is long (I haven't > even reached the conclusion after about an hour of reading). > > It goes of a bit about releasing through Maven, and some quibles with > central repository management and releases and other politics, but it > should be enlightening to see all positions. Read it with an open mind > and don't look only for the bits that support your position, but try > to understand the other side as well. > > Martijn > > > On Fri, Dec 30, 2016 at 6:54 PM, Jacopo Cappellato > <jacopo.cappell...@gmail.com> wrote: > > On Thu, Dec 29, 2016 at 8:44 PM, Martijn Dashorst < > > martijn.dasho...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > >> [...] > >> Freemarker has been in incubation for 17 months. What do you need to > >> learn and do before you will start your graduation vote? > >> > > > > In my opinion the Freemarker project would be ready to successfully pass > a > > graduation vote and a discussion thread is going on in the project's > > mailing list; based on how the conversation is going the community may > > decide to wait a few more weeks in order to try to attract some > committers. > > However I think that the topic discussed in this thread (about the > concern > > that the "-incubating" suffix may mislead the consumers about the > stability > > of a software product) is a valid one; even if its output will not > probably > > affect Freemarker (that could be a TLP by then). > > > > Jacopo > > > > -- > Become a Wicket expert, learn from the best: http://wicketinaction.com > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: general-unsubscr...@incubator.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: general-h...@incubator.apache.org > >
