Re: Looking for contributors as part of Apache incubation

Concerning the "public template introspection API", I'd like to provide an update on my freemarker-introspection project:

https://github.com/cwong15/freemarker-introspection

I've updated the code to support the latest Freemarker (2.3.22). To inspect the parsed Freemarker AST, it now uses package-local access instead of reflection for more robust Freemarker compatibility. I'm open to recommendations on how to progress towards making this part of the Freemarker project somehow.

Chris

-----Original Message-----
From: Daniel Dekany [mailto:[email protected]]
Sent: Saturday, May 30, 2015 6:21 AM
To: [email protected]
Subject: [Freemarker-devel] Looking for contributors as part of Apache incubation

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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Best regards,
 Daniel Dekany


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