Wednesday, December 28, 2016, 5:23:54 PM, Jacopo Cappellato wrote: >> On Wed, Dec 28, 2016 at 5:11 PM, Daniel Dekany <[email protected]> wrote: >> 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.) > > > Thank you for the feedback Daniel. > I am aware of the situation, plans and challenges and, while the > last time we discussed we agreed upon waiting to see if we could > grow this community during the incubation, and it was good to wait, > I don't think that the lack of growth is a blocker since FreeMarker > has the minimum number of independent committers to operate and it > has demonstrated to be able to release when needed. > In fact, based on the recent thread about the "-incubating" suffix, > I think that at this point remaining in the Incubator would slow > down the project rather than boosting it. > > Jacopo
Well, if we want to try this, I guess it's reasonable to wait until 2.3.26 is out at least. Unless private life disasters and such interfere, that should happen in 1.5 months or so. Among others it meant to fix some non-technical issues pointed out during the last two releases. And it's a chance to show some activity once again. -- Thanks, Daniel Dekany
