As a user of FreeMarker I would regret delaying 2.3.34 yet again
(especially given your lack of time to spend on it).
As a responsible engineer I fully endorse making this conditional on
incompatibleImprovements. https://github.com/apache/freemarker/pull/120 ?

On Fri, Dec 6, 2024 at 9:07 PM Daniel Dekany <daniel.dek...@gmail.com>
wrote:

> So, I think we should cancel this release, and start again with the #sep
> parsing fix only be enabled if incompatibleImprovements >= 2.3.34. Any
> opinions? (Sadly, I think almost nobody sets that from 2.3.0, but I  think
> we can't do more.)
>
> On Fri, Dec 6, 2024 at 10:41 AM Daniel Dekany <daniel.dek...@gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
> > Indeed, even <sep> has worked earlier... I haven't even realized till
> now.
> > That makes it much more likely that this fix breaks existing templates. I
> > wonder if this fix should only be enabled by incompatibleImprovements.
> >
> > BTW, this also means that earlier if there was a <sep> outside a listing
> > in a template, that wasn't seen as static text, and the template parsing
> > has failed with "#sep must be inside a #list (or #foreach) block.".
> Quite a
> > nasty bug that remained hidden for many years.
> >
> > On Fri, Dec 6, 2024 at 7:42 AM Alon Ziv <nola...@google.com.invalid>
> > wrote:
> >
> >> I've tested Google's FreeMarker dependencies. I see a few breakages, but
> >> they are all due to already-broken templates that somehow used to work
> >> (e.g. one template used `<sep>` instead of `<#sep>` and is now broken -
> >> likely due to PR-111).
> >>
> >> +1.
> >>
> >>
> >> On Tue, Dec 3, 2024 at 5:52 PM Christoph Rueger <chrisrue...@gmail.com>
> >> wrote:
> >>
> >>> +1
> >>> We ran our testsuite successfully with it (OSGi environment). No
> >>> regressions.
> >>>
> >>> Am So., 1. Dez. 2024 um 23:00 Uhr schrieb Daniel Dekany <
> >>> ddek...@apache.org
> >>> >:
> >>>
> >>> > Hi all,
> >>> >
> >>> > Please vote on releasing FreeMarker 2.3.34!
> >>> >
> >>> > Release Notes:
> >>> >
> >>>
> https://freemarker.apache.org/builds/2.3.34-voting/versions_2_3_34.html
> >>> >
> >>> > Before proceeding, you should know that FreeMarker 2.3.x, for a long
> >>> > time, always releases a normal and a "gae" variant on the same time,
> >>> > which are technically two independent source trees (Git branches).
> The
> >>> > "gae" variant contains a few small modification in the Java source
> >>> > code to be Google App Engine compliant, and has freemarker-gae as the
> >>> > Maven artifact name. Otherwise the normal and the "gae" branches are
> >>> > identical. Hence they will be voted on together.
> >>> >
> >>> > The commits to be voted upon are:
> >>> > - Normal (non-gae) variant:
> >>> >
> >>> >
> >>> >
> >>>
> https://github.com/apache/freemarker/commit/e169fce65f0b513a6e55a220b9733c8e2216e8fd
> >>> >   Commit hash: e169fce65f0b513a6e55a220b9733c8e2216e8fd
> >>> > - "gae" variant:
> >>> >
> >>> >
> >>> >
> >>>
> https://github.com/apache/freemarker/commit/aba94c0d7b4ac2fd8b78a33ce06e8c07df6743e9
> >>> >   Commit hash: aba94c0d7b4ac2fd8b78a33ce06e8c07df6743e9
> >>> >
> >>> > The artifacts to be voted upon are located here:
> >>> >
> >>>
> https://dist.apache.org/repos/dist/dev/freemarker/engine/2.3.34/source/
> >>> > where the source release artifacts are:
> >>> > - Normal (non-gae) variant:
> >>> >   apache-freemarker-src-2.3.34.tar.gz
> >>> > - "gae" variant:
> >>> >   apache-freemarker-gae-src-2.3.34.tar.gz
> >>> >
> >>> > See the "Building FreeMarker" section of the README.md inside them
> for
> >>> > build instructions!
> >>> > As described there:
> >>> > - You need to add the gradle-wrapper.jar manually
> >>> > - You need multiple JDK versions installed, on locations where Gradle
> >>> will
> >>> > find them
> >>> > - You may need -Pfreemarker.allowUnsignedReleaseBuild=true gradle
> >>> command
> >>> > line
> >>> >   option to building everything (not just the jar)
> >>> >
> >>> > The release artifacts are signed with the following key:
> >>> > https://people.apache.org/keys/committer/ddekany.asc
> >>> >
> >>> > For convenience, we also provide binaries, which also need to be
> >>> checked:
> >>> >
> >>>
> https://dist.apache.org/repos/dist/dev/freemarker/engine/2.3.34/binaries/
> >>> > and Maven artifacts in the ASF Staging Repository:
> >>> >
> >>> >
> >>>
> https://repository.apache.org/content/repositories/staging/org/freemarker/freemarker/2.3.34/
> >>> >
> >>> > Please try out the package and vote!
> >>> >
> >>> > The vote is open for a minimum of 72 hours or until the necessary
> >>> number of
> >>> > votes (3 binding +1s) is reached.
> >>> >
> >>> > [ ] +1 Release this package as Apache FreeMarker 2.3.34
> >>> > [ ]  0 I don't feel strongly about it, but I'm okay with the release
> >>> > [ ] -1 Do not release this package because...
> >>> >
> >>> > Please add "(binding)" if your vote is binding.
> >>> >
> >>> > --
> >>> > Thanks,
> >>> >  Daniel Dekany
> >>> >
> >>>
> >>
> >
> > --
> > Best regards,
> > Daniel Dekany
> >
>
>
> --
> Best regards,
> Daniel Dekany
>

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