Re: Looking for contributors as part of Apache incubation

I forgot tell in the initial mail... This whole activity was started
by Jacopo Cappellato from Apache OFBiz, who has the "Champion" role in
this, as they call it at ASF. We also already have the required number
of Mentors BTW.


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.
> 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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