Re: Survey for preparing FreeMarker development effort

Hello Daniel,

Thanks for this. The effort is greatly appreciated ... not that in our case
we have any immiently pending issues to resolve. Things pretty much just
work for us and have for a long time.

However, I will make it known within our own community that you are
proposing this effort and see if I can drum up any particular set of needs
or wishes to present them here.

Also, if at any time you feel that the maintenance of FreeMarker is
threatened by lack of support, or your own ability/desire (work, life,
etc.), please let use know as there may be occasion to help with that.

Sincerely,
- Ray


On Sun, Mar 10, 2013 at 9:06 AM, Daniel Dekany <[email protected]> wrote:

> Dear All,
>
> While I'm not one of the original authors of the 2.x.x (non-classic)
> line, seems I have gradually become the main maintainer of the
> FreeMarker template engine over the last few years or so, as the
> original authors (I mostly mean Jonathan and Attila) are inactive
> around here. Only I couldn't allocate enough time for this either, and
> this starts to become a problem for FreeMarker.
>
> So, to catch up, I plan to allocate serious amount of time [*] for
> FreeMarker development stating from late spring or early summer. The
> goal of this effort is fixing long-standing issues (mostly design
> issues that can be addressed without breaking backward compatibility
> too much), adding frequently requested missing features (an those that
> people don't request but I know they need it... :) ), increasing
> usability (better error messages, better documentation, terminology
> simplification) and to make FreeMarker more accessible for potential
> contributors (fixing the branching mess, switching to Maven, Git,
> modularization, addressing ownership/licensing and CLA issues).
>
> Thus, as the first step, I would like to hear about what the wishes of
> you as FreeMarker user are. What features you crave for the most, how
> could FreeMarker integrate better with your product, what are the
> things you or your fellow developers most often has problems with,
> etc. (Of course, I do have a long list of things to fix/improve, but I
> don't want to influence the discussion at this point.)
>
> *: How much time, you might ask. I'm thinking of a few hundred hours
>    here. Yeah, that's bold. What life will allow (work, family, etc.),
>    is another question. We will see.
>
> --
> Thanks,
>  Daniel Dekany
>
>
>
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