Oh, and Jira issues are all about 2.x, unless they specifically say otherwise.
On Wed, Jan 31, 2024 at 9:19 AM Daniel Dekany <daniel.dek...@gmail.com> wrote: > The information available is linked from > https://github.com/apache/freemarker/blob/3/README.md > > What's happening with it: Nowadays, almost nothing. It's a huge effort to > rewrite so many things. I guess that would be like a year full time job for > me. (And that only if we are efficient with decision making, and not go > back-and-forth a lot on every decision, committee style. Because there are > way too many things that I think weren't good decisions in the past. Like > even very core things like ObjectWrapper-s, I wouldn't repeat them in a new > engine.) So the whole FM3 effort is unlikely to ever yield a release, but > then, I see no more likely way to get away from 2.x heritage. It's just > prohibitively expensive or impossible to get lots of things right in 2.x > after 20 years, as it would either break backward compatibility a lot, or > the resulting code would be too twisted to maintain. So 2.x is maintained, > slowly still gets features that are feasible to add to it, and regardless, > 3 either will happen, or not. > > On Sun, Jan 28, 2024 at 7:32 PM Taher Alkhateeb <ta...@pythys.com.invalid> > wrote: > >> >> Hello Everyone, >> >> So I'm trying to contribute or help with version 3, but it's been a while >> and I'm not sure what's in the backlog. Do we have references to what's >> happening in version 3? Jira issues don't seem to be differentiating >> between the versions, and I couldn't find a roadmap or plan in the website. >> I would like to try and for example create a test template and generate it >> and from there work my way through bugs and issues. However I'm not sure >> what to test for given that I'm not sure what feature set is different >> between the versions. For that matter do we have any comprehensive >> templates that we can use for testing without writing everything from >> scratch? >> >> Any pointers are appreciated! >> >> Cheers, >> >> Taher Alkhateeb >> > > > -- > Best regards, > Daniel Dekany > -- Best regards, Daniel Dekany
