Obviously, it would be great if we can graduate, but I'm not sure how. Last time the consensus was that the project relies too much on me, and so certainly they wouldn't allow FM to graduate at this state. That didn't change. Plus, right now, we happen to be inside a now 5 month long rather silent period (and this will be our 2nd Podling Report in row without a release). My plan back then was to start working on FM 3 in early November, but life haven't allowed that. But my plan hasn't changed, and I hope I can start focusing much more on FM sometimes January. Then, however, some time will have to spent on releasing 2.3.26 first. For those who don't remember, my standpoint was that catching contributors for a template engine is certainly hard enough, but FM 2.x.x makes it even harder with all the complex and often frustrating legacy. So other than FM 3 meant to be significantly better for end-users, it also meant to make FM more attractive for potential contributors. (And if FM 3 gets anywhere, I will reach out for some long seen contributors, or even seeing if the same engine could serve a next gen Velocity and then try to see if the two communities could overlap.)
Wednesday, December 28, 2016, 3:57:50 PM, Jacopo Cappellato wrote: > 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 -- Thanks, Daniel Dekany
