Re: Looking for contributors as part of Apache incubation

Monday, June 1, 2015, 9:07:26 PM, Raymond Auge wrote:

> Liferay would enjoy if Freemarker (which Liferay uses extensively)
> were to become an Apache project and would try to participate as much as we could.

Well, if Liferay needs some feature anyway, you know, that's the best place
to help maybe.

Also maybe Eclipse IDE development is a natural place where Liferay
could help out. It can either mean the improvement of the JBoss IDE,
or better yet, supporting Angelo Zerr in developing the plugin he has
started (hoping he still wants to do it). Other than it has more
potential for technical reasons, that could probably be done under the
Freemarker project, which means visible project activity. Or, working
on the FM core for better debugger support is also something that
Liferay may benefits from. Anyway, I ran ahead too much... we aren't
even in the Incubator yet.

> Could you not provide to ASF the long list of "Powered by
> Freemarker" as indicator that it's an active and viable project?

They know that it's a widely used project, as far as I can tell. But
maybe it should be linked from the proposal, yes. The main concern
that was raised is that it has not much active contributors.

-- 
Thanks,
 Daniel Dekany


> - Ray
>
>
> On Sat, May 30, 2015 at 6:21 AM, Daniel Dekany <[email protected]> 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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