General: Apache Tiles is a templating framework built to simplify the development of web application user interfaces.
Once again, the Tiles community has stepped up and shown some signs of life just when I was ready to call it done. This quarter has shown some continued activity around releases. Questions continue to trickle into the users list and they generally get responses within a day or two. Progress is slow, but I'm comfortable continuing to work with a slow-moving project as long as the Apache Board is willing to continue with it. The community is responsive even though new development seems to be happening at a snail's pace. I think Tiles still has a significant user base within the Spring community. Our challenge would be to figure out how to get more of those users involved in the project. Releases: This quarter the Tiles PMC made two releases: We released version 5 of the master POM with a quality of GA. We also released version 1.0.3 of the Tiles Request library with a quality of Beta. Community: There have been no changes to the Tiles community in this quarter. The last addition to the PMC was in April, 2012.
