Re: Looking for contributors as part of Apache incubation

Sunday, May 31, 2015, 7:59:52 PM, Woonsan Ko wrote:

> Sounds really cool!
> I'd like to help anythings (code/doc contributions and incubation
> related chores) with regard to moving to ASF. I have once helped Apache
> Rave a bit in PPMC with my colleagues (one as ASF member as well). I'll
> spread the word.

Thanks! We will need the help during the incubation for sure!

> I'm sure this project will be really successful and gather big
> participation soon in bigger communities with this move.
>
> Kind regards,
>
> Woonsan
>
> On 5/30/15 6:21 AM, 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.
>> 
>
>

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Thanks,
 Daniel Dekany


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