Velocity の最新の安定版が少なくとも 2 年前にリリースされたことを見て、SF の善良な人々がこのプロジェクトがまだ積極的に維持されているかどうかを示唆できることを期待していました。アクティビティがないように見えるJIRAのVelocity 2.0プロジェクト以外に、これに対するヒントはありません。
cf https://stackoverflow.com/questions/11085676/does-apache-velocity-project-have-future-or-is-it-defunct何らかの理由で閉鎖されました。
更新 (2017 年 7 月): 新しいバージョン 2.0 がhttp://velocity.apache.org/engine/2.0/にアップされました
Is GNU sed still an active project? The last release was 4.2.2 in December 2012, and before that 4.2.1 in June 2009, and 4.1.5 in 2006. Also, the maintainer announced his resignation from maintaining the project. Does that mean that GNU sed is a dead project that shouldn't be used anymore? Definitely not. It is a very mature project, with very few bugs and little left to improve or innovate. It is a well known piece of program, used in many scripts, and just because releases happen every 3 years or more, it doesn't mean that it is something to move away from. On the contrary, sed is a central piece of *nix utilities, and GNU sed is probably its best implementation.
While Apache Velocity is not as mature and well known as GNU sed, it is also a mature, stable software. There isn't much work being done not because there's nobody left to do that work, but because there's very little need of new work. Developers are happy with what they have, users don't complain of missing features, and downstream projects are happy, as far as I know.
ところで、彼らは明らかにgitに切り替えました：
https://github.com/apache/velocity-engine
https://apache.googlesource.com/velocity-engine
リンクは、かすかな最近の活動を示しています。