So it's on http://freemarker.org/contribute.html, but...
- I just want to emphasize that it's quite important for the success of the project. People need to edit the templates with something, and efficiently. For you convenience, the pending Jira issues: https://issues.jboss.org/browse/JBIDE-20512?jql=project%20%3D%20JBIDE%20AND%20status%20in%20%28Open%2C%20%22Coding%20In%20Progress%22%2C%20Reopened%2C%20%22Pull%20Request%20Sent%22%29%20AND%20component%20%3D%20freemarker - You can help even if you aren't into Eclipse plugin development! A problem is currently that the release of the plugin seems to be bound to the release of the JBoss Tools project which is very infrequent for our purpose. Maybe the fixes should just be back-ported into the previous JBoss Tools branch too solve that, and that's not done, but I really don't know. In any case, currently, FreeMarker IDE release cycles are way too slow [*]. A solution for this should be figured out, and discussed with the JBoss Tools guys. Like, just as an example, maybe we should set up our own plugin update site, and do the builds ourselves, but then legal issues has to be considered, and if that could interfere with the JBoss Tools installation of the users. *: For example, I have asked to increase the FreeMarker version in 2.3.23. And sure it was done in the repo quickly (thanks to Denis Golovin who has also squashed several FreeMarker IDE bugs), but it's scheduled for JBoss Tools 4.4.0. That, I guess, is about 12 months away! Until that, FreeMarker IDE won't handle the new features of 2.3.23, which was released months ago. Or, FreeMarker IDE was pretty much unusably broken in 4.2.0. Months ago, it was fixed, and now its quite usable. Big difference. But for most user that will only become visible in 4.3.0, which is has only entered CR1 state not very long ago. Now, it all could be kind of OK, if there were JBoss IDE dependencies in FreeMarker IDE, or the other way around, but as far as I see there's pretty much none. So technically FreeMarker IDE could be released independently. -- Thanks, Daniel Dekany
