Re: Looking for contributors as part of Apache incubation

So, Marijan and Woonasan. I'm especially interested in what Hippo
needs, what FM features you miss the most there, and what existing
"features" you hate the most.

Also, if in what topics you feel like contributing to. (Like Woonasan
has mentioned Spring MVC integration. That would be very useful to
improve.)

(And again, there will be a TODO list to pick from.)

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Thanks,
 Daniel Dekany


Monday, June 1, 2015, 2:33:52 PM, 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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