Hi Laurent and PJ, The Apache Roller project still uses Struts, Tiles and Velocity and I would like to see the projects continue and move into Jakarta land. I have some limited time to help out. What do y'all need help with?
Dave On Sun, Mar 19, 2023 at 8:01 AM PJ Fanning <fannin...@apache.org> wrote: > Hi Laurent, > I don't want to write off the possibility of a Jakarta variant of > Tiles joining the Apache Incubator - but the fact that Apache Tiles > doesn't have an active community around it is going to be a major > impediment. For Apache projects and podlings to succeed, they need a > number of contributors to get involved. > Could you start by putting your code up on Github or somewhere similar > and adding documentation that highlights that you are looking for > collaborators? Maybe there are some forums where some remaining users > of Tiles can be contacted? > > There is no impediment to you simply releasing your Jakarta variant of > Tiles yourself or via some organisation that you are involved with > (e.g. a company that you work with). If you go this route, the ASF > would look like to see that you remove all the ASF branding and > ideally, change the package names. > > If you want to avoid having to do all the branding changes and see the > new project join/rejoin the ASF, then I think that you'll need to come > back to us with more collaborators and probably some indication that > they are bought into keeping the project going over the foreseeable > future. > > Regards, > PJ > > > On Sat, 18 Mar 2023 at 06:32, Laurent Schoelens > <laurent.schoel...@hotmail.com> wrote: > > > > Hi everyone, > > > > I’m working on Apache Tiles porting to Jakarta EE (without support of > freemarker and velocity, since both of them are still going with javax API) > and my work is going to reach it’s end – all builds are successful, jdk17 > baseline and updated dependencies (as far as I know) – but still uncommited > to my personal github account. > > > > I know Tiles is in Attic land of Apache but I’d which to make this first > step (Jakarta migration) go to open-source world, without creating new > projects out of the box. > > Tiles is a framework I use on a project, with Spring and since Spring 6 > has migrated to Jakarta API, I’m stuck to Spring 5.X if I stay on this. > Changing technology is an option for frontend application but not until a > good rework that may take months (or years, depending on time we have to do > that migration). > > Having a Tiles Jakarta port would be great since the technology itself > is working well on my project. > > > > Do you know what can I do to make this properly, according to Apache > work ? > > > > Thanks in advance for your help. > > > > Regards. > > L. SCHOELENS > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: general-unsubscr...@incubator.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: general-h...@incubator.apache.org > >
