On Thu, Sep 6, 2018 at 12:27 PM Ben Jackson <[email protected]> wrote: > > BTW, > > The naming convention for maven plugins is either 'maven-XXX-plugin' if > supported by the maven team or 'XXX-maven-plugin' for all other plugins; > this why Mark originally named it freemarker-maven-plugin. See > https://maven.apache.org/guides/plugin/guide-java-plugin-development.html Right.
> > So someone looking for this plugin will almost certainly default to > searching for "freemarker-maven-plugin" so it is possible that the existing > name is the superior choice. Sounds reasonable to me. Woonsan > > -Ben > > > On Thu, Sep 6, 2018 at 11:14 AM Ben Jackson <[email protected]> wrote: > > > 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 > > > > > -- > Benjamin Grant Jackson
