Happy new year! Here is an incomplete draft for the report; please have a look and feel free to modify it and move it to the Wiki. We may want to split the main paragraph into smaller chunks to fill other sections of the report... please just consider it as a starting point.
Thanks, Jacopo ============================================ FreeMarker FreeMarker is a template engine, i.e. a generic tool to generate text output based on templates. FreeMarker is implemented in Java as a class library for programmers. FreeMarker has been incubating since 2015-07-01. The FreeMarker project exists and produces releases since around 2001. Most important issues to address in the move towards graduation: we think that the project is getting ready for a successful graduation since during incubation we have cleared copyright and trademark, migrated all the project's assets to the ASF Infra, learned how to produce and publish releases (with 2 releases issued during incubation), learned how to invite committers; the project is still struggling to find a way to "convert" active users into committers; there are several users that have expressed the desire to be more involved and help the project, but this doesn't materialize into consistent contributions. In order to facilitate new contributions and attract new potential committers we are trying to define new ideas/tasks that are useful to the project but can be completed even by contributors that do not know all the large and complex codebase of the project. Any issues that the Incubator PMC (IPMC) or ASF Board wish/need to be aware of? None How has the community developed since the last report? There were no changes How has the project developed since the last report? Date of last release: 2016-06-26 When were the last committers or PMC members elected? 2015-10-21 Nan Lei, committer (non-PMC) Signed-off-by: [ ](freemarker) Jacopo Cappellato [ ](freemarker) Jean-Frederic Clere [ ](freemarker) David E. Jones [ ](freemarker) Ralph Goers [ ](freemarker) Sergio Fernández
