Hi Daniel & team,
Sorry that I was dormant for a long time after a very short tent @ Freemaker. I am out of some critical issues and have some bandwidth from now on. Kindly let me know if there is anything I could help. Pradeep. ________________________________ From: Daniel Dekany <[email protected]> Sent: Tuesday, June 14, 2016 12:48:55 AM To: Sergio Fernández Cc: [email protected] Subject: Graduation issues I think we can start some discussion about that even now. Or at least I will tell what do I think about the state of the project. The main problem is the number of active developers, which is 1, me. What if I'm hit by a truck tomorrow? We can hope that if there's a bug that concerns many, then someone will eventually fix it. After all the owner (ASF) won't be gone, the release infrastructure is there, etc. But as far as non-bugfix development goes, it's certain that things would stop. Some may say that that's OK for a project that's backward-compatibility-locked for 12 years now (the 2.x line is actually 14 years old). But of course that's just slow death if a project can't counter its old design problems and can't evolve to tackle new problems anymore. So indeed 2.x should switch to maintenance eventually (but ATM there are still things that can be done in 2.x), but only to give place for 3.x. Anyway, how to catch long standing developers? I don't think that 2.x have a real chance for that, because of all the legacy code burden piled up. (Some Apache projects have many paid contributors, but I think FM isn't the kind of project that can have that, so it's important that the developers want to fiddle with it for free.) So the 3.x jump will be necessary, and then, maybe, we can have a developer base growth (template engines isn't hot topic anymore, so I just mean having a few developers around). But 3.x is far away (if it will happen at all), and we can't hang around in the incubator forever. So, do you believe there's any chance to graduate with the current developer base? Monday, June 13, 2016, 8:15:11 AM, Sergio Fernández wrote: > Besides the technical discussion for 2.3.25-incubating, after that release > you may start to discuss a possible graduation. We have to discuss many > aspects (specially growth of the community), but technically speaking the > podling is capable os casting releases. -- Thanks, Daniel Dekany
