There are other ASF projects that have every intent to get releases out but find that life gets in the way. I really don’t have a problem with the project relying on you. I have a problem if the project is only you.
Ralph > On Dec 28, 2016, at 9:11 AM, 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.) > > > 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 > >
