I just tot out of the shower while thinking about this project and how it could really be livened up to get some more attention.
I embarrassingly admit I have a pull request that I can't even remember what it was, I had my wife in hospital for 4 months then a little baby to worry about. One thing sort-of new on the scene has been thymeleaf [1] which has gained more momentum IMHO mostly with spring replacing tiles with thymeleaf in its examples, though; I still maintain that while cool thymeleaf is as a JSP replacement, it can't compare to the page fragment (tile) model of tiles and both serve a separate function. I've not tried the two together, I think I shall some time, it would be killer. Maybe we should float ideas on how to keep with the principals of tiles but somehow modernise it to give it an agile feel? [1]: http://www.thymeleaf.org > On 10 Jun 2016, at 21:15, mck <[email protected]> wrote: > > Report from the Apache Tiles Project > > ## Description: > Apache Tiles is a free open-sourced templating framework for Java > applications. > Based upon the Composite pattern it is built to simplify the development > of user > interfaces. > > ## Activity: > Apache Tiles remains an stable but low traffic project. There remains > two > responsible and responsive PMC ready to help users and discuss > development > ideas. Other PMC come out to help when needed. > > Currently no members are active in development, and no contributions > have come > in. The majority of activity happens on non-apache sites like the > StackExchange > forums. StackExchange sees a few questions and answers each day or two. > > This quarter saw input from an emeritus member Antonio, who had > contributed much > of the rewrite to Apache Tiles-3. While Antonio looks not to actively > contribute > again, but is using Tiles-3 again and will offer related contributions > and ideas > when appropriate. > > ## Health report: > Apache Tiles is a stable project seeing little new momentum. There are > currently > two responsive PMC, other PMC help out with votes when needed. > > An initial effort was made to subscribe the StackExchange traffic into > the users > mailing list, without luck. Since this is the best representation of > active > traffic that we have this effort should be retried. Current members need > to be > reaching out to other forums to show that the Apache community is still > there > for them. Everyone is aware of the how little momentum the project has, > but it > does not feel abandoned by members, nor not in use by the public. > > The pending patch release really should be made the next quarter so to > verify > the presence of 3+ PMC, as described above. > > ## Issues > The board requested last report that less emphasis on the output of the > health > reporter be used, and a more direct statement used to describe the low > health status that the project holds. Hopefully this has been addressed > this > report. > > ## Releases: > No releases were made this quarter. There is still a patch release > pending, no > action has been taken so far.
