That is great to hear Will. Thanks for giving everyone an update.
regards Malcolm Edgar On 10/15/06, Will Glass-Husain <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Hi, Just a quick report on Hackathon 2006 for Velocity. As you can see from the wiki page (http://wiki.apache.org/jakarta-velocity/HackaThon2006) we put a significant dent in the list of open issues. I'm particularly pleased to have gotten some new functionality committed: my (in)famous secure uberspector which prevents dangerous classloader related methods from being called (when configured), and a new event handler that will report out all invalid references in a page. We also nailed some subtle bugs in the uberspector and macros, boldly changed the application-level exceptions to be subclasses of runtime exception, and got rid of the infamous "velocity.log" file except when explicitly configured. Nathan fixed up the StandardOutLog system to be a bit more consistent about stdout vs. stderr. Also worth mentioning is a nasty little SQL injection vulnerability in the DatasourceResourceLoader that Henning fixed a couple of weeks ago. I had a chance to take a look at the work that Henning is doing on the documentation. I really hadn't appreciated how revolutionary this is. He's single-handedly converting all our xdocs for the software into a new "DocBook" format. (not the site-- that stays xdocs). DocBook is an industry standard, has a free WYSIWYG editor, and is stored in XML format. Henning gave a well-regard "lightening talk" at ApacheCon advocating all projects follow the same approach. What's next? I'd like to see a beta 2 capturing these new items released ASAP. Then there's more bugs to fix, and the new docs to finish. We'll see how it goes. As a sidenote, it was a treat to work on these issues surrounded by other committers on the many ASF projects which use Velocity. Good feedback and enthusiasm all around. The word is out about the move to TLP and people approve of our new momentum. Henning and I attended an excellent session run by Sally Khudari on "Promoting your Open Source Project". When the time comes to announce a new release, I think we should try to make a splash. best, WILL --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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