Re: Looking for contributors as part of Apache incubation

marijan milicevic wrote
> Hi Daniel,
> 
> I would also be interested in contributing..I am (we are) using freemarker
> extensively and I would really like it to become an Apache project. 
> 
> My apache "handle" is marijan (@apache.org) if you need more information. 
> 
> cheers
> marijan
> 
> PS:  I am one of the Woonasan colleagues
> Daniel Dekany wrote
>> We are (or mostly, I'm) trying to move FreeMarker over to the Apache
>> Software Foundation. So far the reaction is mostly positive on
>> Apache's side, but, the major concern is the low number of active
>> contributors. If everything goes well, there will be a voting about
>> letting FreeMarker in into the Apache *Incubator*, where it will have
>> to build up some kind of community or else it will fail. OTOH the main
>> reason I want FM to be an Apache project is exactly to improve chances
>> of finding contributors, especially long term ones like myself.
>> Obviously, one man (me) is not very safe for the users (like what if
>> something happens with me, or I just move on).
>> 
>> So, I just wonder if I can expect anyone to join the incubation when
>> and if it will be started. There's lot of interesting but difficult
>> tasks to do. Like better automatic escaping, a new parser that's more
>> IDE friendly and faster and has better error messages, proper support
>> of Map-s with non-string keys, better null handling, advanced
>> white-space removal, better caching, better i18n, supporting custom
>> "dialects" (i.e., changing the set of built-ins and built-in
>> directives), public template introspection API, better debugging,
>> Android support, and many more. It was just a glimpse. There's a lot
>> of space for advancement.
>> 
>> -- 
>> Best regards,
>>  Daniel Dekany
>> 
>> 
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