On Wed, Mar 7, 2018 at 11:07 AM, Daniel Dekany <ddek...@apache.org> wrote: > The only Eclipse plugin in reasonable state for editing FreeMarker > templates is "FreeMarker IDE", which is part of the JBoss Tools > project. See the top entry at > https://freemarker.apache.org/editors.html, and also > https://github.com/jbosstools/jbosstools-freemarker. > > However, RedHat has deprecated and now removed the "FreeMarker IDE" > plugin from JBoss Tools and Devstudio. See: > https://stackoverflow.com/questions/49072160/why-is-freemarker-ide-in-eclipse-oxygen-jboss-tools-4-5-2-final-deprecated > https://issues.jboss.org/browse/JBIDE-25736 > > So I think "FreeMarker IDE" should be brought over to the ASF, > similarly as FreeMarker-Online was. Also the Eclipse update "site" > should be hosted on ASF infrastructure. I have started a discussion to > explore this possibility, and so far it seems it's fine on their side: > > http://lists.jboss.org/pipermail/jbosstools-dev/2018-March/subject.html > > The code is under EPL, but of course they should "contribute" the code > the ASF where we can replace the license with ASL2, and rename the > packages. > > Technically, "FreeMarker IDE" is independent of the rest of JBoss > Tools, we only had to substitute org.jboss.tools:parent (as it's not > in the Maven Central, it's not an acceptable dependency IMO). > > What do you think? Will the ASF be fine with bringing over yet another > FreeMarker related project? Do you think it's good to do? I don't think there's any issue by adding a *subproject* in a top level project as many others do. I found a very similar example: - http://directory.apache.org/studio/installation-in-eclipse.html
And, they maintain the update site at http://directory.apache.org/studio/update. I guess we can do the same thing (as a subproject under FreeMarker) if RedHat is willing to contribute. Regards, Woonsan > > My opinion is that the more control we have over such products, the > easier it is to ensure that they remain maintained and available to > the users. > > -- > Thanks, > Daniel Dekany >
