Re: Looking for contributors as part of Apache incubation

Yeah, I noticed that in the general@incubator today. That's really nice
to have enough mentors already!
Also, "Champion" will help you and others overcome any problems and find
proper resources, etc. [1]
In my experience with Rave incubation, those mentors and champion helped
a lot (including infra, branding, legal issues, etc) to establish a new
project and community until graduation.
I don't see any big differences between your way gardening in this
community and Apache Way. So, I'm really sure you'll be happily
organizing people and gardening in a bigger and more active community in
the near future. ;-)

Cheers,

Woonsan

[1]
http://incubator.apache.org/incubation/Roles_and_Responsibilities.html#Champion

On 6/1/15 7:43 PM, Daniel Dekany wrote:
> 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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