On 09/28/2015 12:10 AM, Daniel Dekany wrote:
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.
I have asked my colleague Max who is responsible of the JBoss IDE and he
says:
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He could just post to jbosstools-dev and submit PRs and volunteer to
maintain it.
We have nightly builds he can use today - don't have to wait 12 months.
/max
http://about.me/maxandersen
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I hope it helps
Cheers
Jean-Frederic
