[Incubator Wiki] Update of "July2017" by DanielDekany

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  Three most important issues to address in the move towards graduation:
  
-   1.
-   2.
-   3.
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+   We have a large user base but a rather small group of committers.
+   This was actually expected, given the maturity (and topic) of the project.
+   While the FreeMarker 3 branch, which was started 5 month ago, will be much
+   more appealing for contributors, development and growth due to that will
+   certainly take a long time. In other respects the project is mature and
+   ready for graduation.
+   
  Any issues that the Incubator PMC (IPMC) or ASF Board wish/need to be
  aware of?
  
+   We are eager to graduate but we're afraid that the number of active
+   contributors will prevent that in the foreseeable future. But remaining in
+   the incubator hurts the project as well. One problem it causes is that many
+   projects are stuck with the last non-Apache release of the project, from
+   two years ago, since they won't depend on an artifact whose version contains
+   "-incubating".
  
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- How has the community developed since the last report?
- 
- 
- 
- How has the project developed since the last report?
+ How has the community developed since the last report?
  
+   There were no changes since the last report.
  
+ How has the project developed since the last report?
- How would you assess the podling's maturity?
- Please feel free to add your own commentary.
  
+   Most activity was in the FreeMarker 3 branch; most notably, FreeMarker was
+   modularized and switched to Gradle.
+   The FreeMarker 2 branch was less active, but had some fixes and new features.
+   During the last report period we have received a code donation, the source
+   code of an online template evaluator service, which was since then cleand up,
+   and is now running on Apache infrastructure (http://try.freemarker.org/).
+   The build of FreeMarker and of the template evaluator service was added to
+   Travis CI.
+ 
+ How would you assess the podling's maturity?
+ Please feel free to add your own commentary.
+ 
    [ ] Initial setup
    [ ] Working towards first release
-   [ ] Community building
+   [X] Community building
-   [ ] Nearing graduation
+   [X] Nearing graduation
    [ ] Other:
  
  Date of last release:
  
-   XXXX-XX-XX
+   2017-03-25
  
  When were the last committers or PPMC members elected?
  
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+   2017-02-13 Woonsan Ko, committer (non-PMC)
  
  Signed-off-by:
  

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