Here is the existing codebase for this project. https://github.com/yahoo/freemarker-maven-plugin
It seemed more straightforward to work through our opensource team to publish the code so that it could be reviewed before continuing this conversation. Please comment on any remediations you see as needed (if any) before working towards gifting this code to the apache foundation as a starting point for this plugin. Also, as mentioned in the conversation above, it would be preferable if this plugin had a unique and easily searchable name. Does anyone have ideas? I have no good ideas; here are some uninspired options: FreeGenerator FMGenerator FMGen fmg fmgen FMarkerGen MarkerGen MGen MGenerator On Mon, Aug 20, 2018 at 10:05 AM Woonsan Ko <[email protected]> wrote: > On Mon, Aug 20, 2018 at 10:15 AM, Daniel Dekany <[email protected]> > wrote: > ...snip... > > Without an ASF account the contributors couldn't edit the Wiki page. > > If *they* open a JIRA issue, then we all can edit it. So that's what I > > recommend. > Makes sense to me. We can wait for Ben/Mark to create a JIRA ticket > and we can edit its description together there. > > ...snip... > > This was my intent from the beginning. A generator file can be a > > .json, or an .ftl[h|x] (or whatever we come up with later, like an xml > > that's transformed by a templates/myxmltransformat.ftl). They are > > totally unrelated, independent generator files. I have never assumed > > that they come in pairs, hence there was never a such thing as "ftl > > only generator" in my head either. All generator files are lonely. > That's clear now. I think I made an unnecessary confusion by using > 'ftl-only' generator when mentioning .ftl type generator. > Thanks! > > Woonsan > -- Benjamin Grant Jackson
