Tuesday, September 22, 2015, 4:49:25 PM, Ralph Goers wrote:

> Sorry for being late to the party, but I just wanted to point out
> that in case you aren’t aware votes are not required for these kinds
> of things - you can simply start a discussion and see if anyone
> objects.

OK, thanks.

> If someone wants to discuss it it can also get messy as you will mix
> a bunch of discussion emails in your vote thread.

Yes, if there's a bigger developer community, first discussion thread,
then voting thread.

> That said, there is nothing wrong with asking for a vote if you want
> formal permission.
>
> Also - does FreeMarker follow Commit-Then-Review (CTR) or
> Review-Then-Commit (RTC)? I am guessing CTR (which is my personal
> preference) but a lot of the Hadoop-based projects have been using RTC with 
> reviewboard.

If there will be more the one active committers who work on
FreeMarker, then I will prefer people committing into their own
feature branches, which will be merged if there's consensus and test
coverage. (As far as there's only one active committer (me), there
rules aren't defined much.)

> Ralph
>
>> On Sep 14, 2015, at 11:10 AM, Daniel Dekany <[email protected]> wrote:
>> 
>> Yet another voting with lazy consensus... silence gives assent. 72
>> hours left.
>> 
>> I think we have to drop JSP 1.2 support in 2.3.24 because of legal
>> reasons. The jps-api 1.2 artifact can't be found in the Maven Central
>> Repo, and it can't be upload for legal reasons. This means that as far
>> as FreeMarker 2.3.x depends on it, it can't be built without
>> developers getting that jar themselves and putting it into the Ivy
>> cache or something. (It has worked so far because freemarker.org has
>> hosted it in its own Ivy repo, but doing such legally gray things
>> won't go anymore as we move the site to the ASF's infrastructure.)
>> 
>> JSP 1.2 was part of J2EE 1.3 (September 24, 2001), and was replaced by
>> JSP 2.0 in J2EE 1.4 (November 11, 2003). So hopefully not many users
>> will be hurt.
>> 
>> -- 
>> Thanks,
>> Daniel Dekany
>> 
>> 
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>
>

-- 
Thanks,
 Daniel Dekany

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