As committed to the December board agenda:
Apache Tiles is a templating framework built to simplify the development of web application user interfaces. We added one new committer this quarter: Nicolas LE BAS. We are hoping that a beta release of Tiles 3 (the next revolutionary version of Tiles) will occur sometime in the next quarter. The Apache Tiles project is in a rebuilding phase. Several of the original PMC members remain on board primarily to build and mentor a new PMC. Almost all of the original PMC members have stated their intention to go emeritus once the project is re-established. We really need to add two or three more people for this to work, so I expect the process to take a minimum of several months to play out. It all depends on how much interest we generate. In the meantime work is ongoing to create a new revolutionary version of Tiles. Previous versions of the framework required an online Servlet environment to render pages. Tiles 3 will abstract all the templating capabilities from the Servlet environment so that sites can be constituted and rendered in an offline mode. We are now moving toward a beta release of this functionality.
