-1 (bindig)

Updates can't break existing systems with realistic chance, and that <sep>
did work by default (even if that was a bug), and doesn't anymore, is a
problem. So I'm cancellin this release attempt, and redo it again today.

Merged the PR (and will do some adjustments post-merge).

On Sun, Dec 8, 2024 at 7:37 AM Alon Ziv <nola...@google.com.invalid> wrote:

> As a user of FreeMarker I would regret delaying 2.3.34 yet again
> (especially given your lack of time to spend on it).
> As a responsible engineer I fully endorse making this conditional on
> incompatibleImprovements. https://github.com/apache/freemarker/pull/120 ?
>
> On Fri, Dec 6, 2024 at 9:07 PM Daniel Dekany <daniel.dek...@gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> So, I think we should cancel this release, and start again with the #sep
>> parsing fix only be enabled if incompatibleImprovements >= 2.3.34. Any
>> opinions? (Sadly, I think almost nobody sets that from 2.3.0, but I  think
>> we can't do more.)
>>
>> On Fri, Dec 6, 2024 at 10:41 AM Daniel Dekany <daniel.dek...@gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>> > Indeed, even <sep> has worked earlier... I haven't even realized till
>> now.
>> > That makes it much more likely that this fix breaks existing templates.
>> I
>> > wonder if this fix should only be enabled by incompatibleImprovements.
>> >
>> > BTW, this also means that earlier if there was a <sep> outside a listing
>> > in a template, that wasn't seen as static text, and the template parsing
>> > has failed with "#sep must be inside a #list (or #foreach) block.".
>> Quite a
>> > nasty bug that remained hidden for many years.
>> >
>> > On Fri, Dec 6, 2024 at 7:42 AM Alon Ziv <nola...@google.com.invalid>
>> > wrote:
>> >
>> >> I've tested Google's FreeMarker dependencies. I see a few breakages,
>> but
>> >> they are all due to already-broken templates that somehow used to work
>> >> (e.g. one template used `<sep>` instead of `<#sep>` and is now broken -
>> >> likely due to PR-111).
>> >>
>> >> +1.
>> >>
>> >>
>> >> On Tue, Dec 3, 2024 at 5:52 PM Christoph Rueger <chrisrue...@gmail.com
>> >
>> >> wrote:
>> >>
>> >>> +1
>> >>> We ran our testsuite successfully with it (OSGi environment). No
>> >>> regressions.
>> >>>
>> >>> Am So., 1. Dez. 2024 um 23:00 Uhr schrieb Daniel Dekany <
>> >>> ddek...@apache.org
>> >>> >:
>> >>>
>> >>> > Hi all,
>> >>> >
>> >>> > Please vote on releasing FreeMarker 2.3.34!
>> >>> >
>> >>> > Release Notes:
>> >>> >
>> >>>
>> https://freemarker.apache.org/builds/2.3.34-voting/versions_2_3_34.html
>> >>> >
>> >>> > Before proceeding, you should know that FreeMarker 2.3.x, for a long
>> >>> > time, always releases a normal and a "gae" variant on the same time,
>> >>> > which are technically two independent source trees (Git branches).
>> The
>> >>> > "gae" variant contains a few small modification in the Java source
>> >>> > code to be Google App Engine compliant, and has freemarker-gae as
>> the
>> >>> > Maven artifact name. Otherwise the normal and the "gae" branches are
>> >>> > identical. Hence they will be voted on together.
>> >>> >
>> >>> > The commits to be voted upon are:
>> >>> > - Normal (non-gae) variant:
>> >>> >
>> >>> >
>> >>> >
>> >>>
>> https://github.com/apache/freemarker/commit/e169fce65f0b513a6e55a220b9733c8e2216e8fd
>> >>> >   Commit hash: e169fce65f0b513a6e55a220b9733c8e2216e8fd
>> >>> > - "gae" variant:
>> >>> >
>> >>> >
>> >>> >
>> >>>
>> https://github.com/apache/freemarker/commit/aba94c0d7b4ac2fd8b78a33ce06e8c07df6743e9
>> >>> >   Commit hash: aba94c0d7b4ac2fd8b78a33ce06e8c07df6743e9
>> >>> >
>> >>> > The artifacts to be voted upon are located here:
>> >>> >
>> >>>
>> https://dist.apache.org/repos/dist/dev/freemarker/engine/2.3.34/source/
>> >>> > where the source release artifacts are:
>> >>> > - Normal (non-gae) variant:
>> >>> >   apache-freemarker-src-2.3.34.tar.gz
>> >>> > - "gae" variant:
>> >>> >   apache-freemarker-gae-src-2.3.34.tar.gz
>> >>> >
>> >>> > See the "Building FreeMarker" section of the README.md inside them
>> for
>> >>> > build instructions!
>> >>> > As described there:
>> >>> > - You need to add the gradle-wrapper.jar manually
>> >>> > - You need multiple JDK versions installed, on locations where
>> Gradle
>> >>> will
>> >>> > find them
>> >>> > - You may need -Pfreemarker.allowUnsignedReleaseBuild=true gradle
>> >>> command
>> >>> > line
>> >>> >   option to building everything (not just the jar)
>> >>> >
>> >>> > The release artifacts are signed with the following key:
>> >>> > https://people.apache.org/keys/committer/ddekany.asc
>> >>> >
>> >>> > For convenience, we also provide binaries, which also need to be
>> >>> checked:
>> >>> >
>> >>>
>> https://dist.apache.org/repos/dist/dev/freemarker/engine/2.3.34/binaries/
>> >>> > and Maven artifacts in the ASF Staging Repository:
>> >>> >
>> >>> >
>> >>>
>> https://repository.apache.org/content/repositories/staging/org/freemarker/freemarker/2.3.34/
>> >>> >
>> >>> > Please try out the package and vote!
>> >>> >
>> >>> > The vote is open for a minimum of 72 hours or until the necessary
>> >>> number of
>> >>> > votes (3 binding +1s) is reached.
>> >>> >
>> >>> > [ ] +1 Release this package as Apache FreeMarker 2.3.34
>> >>> > [ ]  0 I don't feel strongly about it, but I'm okay with the release
>> >>> > [ ] -1 Do not release this package because...
>> >>> >
>> >>> > Please add "(binding)" if your vote is binding.
>> >>> >
>> >>> > --
>> >>> > Thanks,
>> >>> >  Daniel Dekany
>> >>> >
>> >>>
>> >>
>> >
>> > --
>> > Best regards,
>> > Daniel Dekany
>> >
>>
>>
>> --
>> Best regards,
>> Daniel Dekany
>>
>

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Best regards,
Daniel Dekany

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