To answer this question, FreeMarker primarily has a single developer who does most everything when he can. The whole point of becoming a project at Apache was to try to change that.
Normally committers are only nominated and elected after they contribute for a while - see http://www.apache.org/foundation/how-it-works.html <http://www.apache.org/foundation/how-it-works.html>. It really doesn’t matter much how you contribute. In a project I used to participate in we elected someone who participated by organizing all of our get-togethers. Fixing documentation, translating to other languages, and fixing bugs are all valued ways to contribute. Ralph > On Jul 26, 2016, at 9:43 AM, Pete Helgren <[email protected]> wrote: > > I lurk as well but use Freemarker pretty much every day in a fairly narrowly > defined way. I am a little fuzzy on the whole "graduation" discussion > because I don't know who, exactly, is invited to participate (Mentors, IPMC, > ?? ) so trying to peel out what I, as an FM user, need to weigh in on has > been a bit of a challenge (so I remain silent). > > FWIW I'll help however I can. My needs to "grow" FM have been few. It does > what I want it to do and I am not strong enough in the Java skills department > to feel like I can actively participate in development. > > Pete Helgren > www.petesworkshop.com > > On 7/26/2016 2:34 AM, Daniel Dekany wrote: >> Monday, July 25, 2016, 5:00:27 PM, Sergio Fernández wrote: >> >>> On Thu, Jul 21, 2016 at 9:24 PM, Daniel Dekany <[email protected]> wrote: >>> >>>> The project's interest is to graduate, so obviously, I would prefer it >>>> to graduate (and probably most mentors too). But I don't want to get >>>> into a graduation vote that is improbable to pass. So I would prefer >>>> if we first try to figure out the feelings of others. >>>> >>>> Does any of you know a precedent of a project in similar state >>>> passing? >>>> >>> Not that I'm aware... >>> >>> You have to know IPMC we're normally very picky about community growth. >>> Therefore, although couple of mentors we already expressed our interest to >>> continue supporting the project (Jacopo and myself), there is no formal >>> trace of that. So before approaching the IPMC at general@incubator I'd try >>> to sort-out first the formal addition of the new PPMC members (i.e., vote). >> Is it supposed to be a normal "Voting in a new PPMC member" votings as >> described on http://incubator.apache.org/guides/ppmc.html (CC-ed to >> the IPMC and so on). I'm asking because all Mentors are already PPMC >> members right now, because that's the initial status of Mentors when a >> proddling starts. Should I add some explanation to the voting, like >> that we are voting about who should stay even after graduation, or is >> it the normal way of doing this? >> >>> After that I'd give it a try to the open discussion to see what's the >>> general mood of the people... >>> >>> >>> >>>> -- >>>> Thanks, >>>> Daniel Dekany >>>> >>>> >>>> Thursday, July 21, 2016, 12:23:47 PM, Jacopo Cappellato wrote: >>>> >>>>> Thank you Sergio. >>>>> >>>>> I am wondering if we should first run a vote in this list to clearly >>>>> express the desire of this community to graduate now (or wait). >>>>> Then we could start the discussion in the general list. >>>>> This is just an idea, if we prefer to ping the general list first, then >>>>> great. >>>>> >>>>> Jacopo >>>>> >>>>> On Thu, Jul 21, 2016 at 11:07 AM, Sergio Fernández <[email protected]> >>>>> wrote: >>>>> >>>>>> Hi, >>>>>> >>>>>> I think the graduation discussion has been spread in different threads. >>>> So >>>>>> I'd like to come back to the path. >>>>>> >>>>>> From my point of view the project could be ready for graduation. The >>>> single >>>>>> issue that could block that is the evolution of the community. Jacopo >>>>>> offered to bring up this topic into general@incubator, to see what's >>>> the >>>>>> feeling from the folks not so closely related to the podling. Do we >>>> still >>>>>> want to approach it in this way? >>>>>> >>>>>> Cheers, >>>>>> >>>>>> -- >>>>>> Sergio Fernández >>>>>> Partner Technology Manager >>>>>> Redlink GmbH >>>>>> m: +43 6602747925 >>>>>> e: [email protected] >>>>>> w: http://redlink.co >>>>>> >>>> >>> > >
