+1 Palantir is by far the best formatter out there. Any means to keep it would be desirable, in ANY way.
Donation or forking would be feasible when the maintainer is not able to keep up or needs more help. Not trying to rip it away from them, more like the thought of offering help. Is there anyone who wants to step up? On Fri, 29 Nov 2024, 08:42 Guillaume Nodet, <gno...@apache.org> wrote: > Le jeu. 28 nov. 2024 à 22:33, Mark Derricutt <m...@talios.com> a écrit : > > > On 29 Nov 2024 at 8:58:20 AM, Guillaume Nodet <gno...@apache.org> > wrote: > > > > > Or https://github.com/palantir/palantir-java-format/pull/935 > > > > > > > Having posted on that ticket previously, it sounds like it’s just waiting > > on being reviewed/merged, even tho it sounds like others have been using > it > > a lot already. > > > > I’d posted on that ticket, and several others asking if/how we, as users > > could help progress it, sadly even those questions fell on deaf ears - > I’d > > be loathe to switch to yet another formatter (for my own $work projects, > > and Maven) due to the potential churn of unrelated changes. > > > > Would forking palantir into an Apache Java Formatter project be viable? > > (I’ve not actually looked at the license). > > > > It's ASL 2.0 already. So there are two possibilities: > * fork it at github and collaborate there > * ask for a donation to the ASF and maintain it within the ASF > > Another possibility would be to go for #1 first and if it picks up, > eventually go to #2. > > > > > > Mark > > > > -- > > "Great artists are extremely selfish and arrogant things" — Steven > Wilson, > > Porcupine Tree > > > > > -- > ------------------------ > Guillaume Nodet >
