Thanks Jacopo, I think it's very well worded. Is there any "political" reason for not mentioning that we also plan to try to make the project more attractive and more approachable by making a branch which drops the very much significant legacy burden? Or it's not a good idea until it's only a plan.
Monday, January 2, 2017, 5:41:03 PM, Jacopo Cappellato wrote: > 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 -- Thanks, Daniel Dekany
