Hi all, we have discussed this already some months ago and I think it is time to restart the conversation now: does this community feel ready to graduate to a Top Level Project (TLP) at the ASF?
I think that the incubation phase has been very useful for the FreeMarker project/community: FreeMarker has now clearly defined and documented copyrights ownership, the community has learned how to produce and publish clean and neat releases, all the assets and infrastructure have been migrated to the ASF, the community has learned how to smoothly interact and work with the ASF ecosystem (e.g. the ASF Infra, the Incubator general list). I feel that there is not much more that FreeMarker can learn from the incubation and that it is time to think about graduation. The developer community is still small, but it is independent, diverse and clearly capable of maintaining the FreeMarker product and supporting the large user community: attracting new developer will always be one of the primary goals of this project, but this will not change when the project will be a TLP out of the Incubator. What do you think? Jacopo
