Re: Looking for contributors as part of Apache incubation

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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