Re: Survey for preparing FreeMarker development effort

Monday, April 1, 2013, 10:46:32 AM, jimingliu wrote:

> Hi Daniel ,
>
> Glad to know your great plan. Just think if you put it on the homepage of
> freemarker, there might have more engineers know your plan and can join you.
> I believe few engineer know the mailing list, but a lot of them visit
> homepage from time to time.

I'm also asking the wishes of users on the lists of some of the more
important projects that depends on FreeMarker. So it's not just the
FreeMarker list. The primary goal here is checking what's important
for the users. I kind of already know that, after nearly 10 years on
the FM list (I believe), but, just to be sure that I'm up to date in
this...

As of others joining... If somebody has experience with Eclipse plugin
development, or just want to learn that, then either the JBoss
FreeMarker plugin has to be improved, or totally new one should be
written. That's something where one can help without knowing FM inside
out, yet it's critically important for FM.

The core development is a more difficult matter. This will be
something that requires deeper FreeMarker knowledge and such.

I could also collect donations, so that my family doesn't kill me for
not making money :-), or more importantly, so that I can stretch this
effort. Actually, SF.net has an infrastructure for that (although I'm
not yet sure how will I explain this to the Hungarian tax authorities,
and I guess they will want the half of the income or something like
that).

> Thanks!
>
> Jiming Liu

-- 
Best regards,
 Daniel Dekany


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