Yes, and I think, everyone in the board knows what the reality is in that department. But I don't know what to state there instead. :) The state of FM 2.x is still a problem, because fixing bugs or adding features is much more difficult than it should be, and that can be a maintenance problem if I'm not around. So maybe something around those lines. (Of course the even bigger problem is the stagnation of the 3.x branch...)
On Wed, Feb 10, 2021 at 7:12 AM David E Jones <d...@dejc.com> wrote: > Looks fine. > > +1 > > I noticed the bit about attracting contributors is still in there. It might > be interesting to discuss that, but honestly after 20 years in community > driven open source I don't know good ways to go about that. Things that > worked well 15 years ago don't work any more, and some things that worked a > decade ago also don't... and that is around when it seemed there was a big > shift in less community open source activity, along with an increase in > activity in projects that got more corporate attention. I don't mean to say > that's a bad thing, just that it is the winning formula these days so > attracting contributors that are not paid employees of companies doing > critical things with FreeMarker is more difficult, and I don't know that > any companies like that exist given the nature of FreeMarker (vs, for > example SOLR or Spark). > > -David > > On Tue, Feb 9, 2021 at 2:34 PM Daniel Dekany <ddek...@apache.org> wrote: > > > Hello PMC Members and Committers, > > > > This is the board report I plan to submit tomorrow (on the 10th): > > > > > https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/FREEMARKER/Board+report+draft+-+February+2021 > > > > Any additions/changes? > > > > Thanks! > > > -- Best regards, Daniel Dekany
