Re: [jbosstools-dev] FreeMarker plugin deprecation
Monday, March 19, 2018, 8:40:33 PM, Nick Boldt wrote:
Daniel,
Any news from the Apache Foundation about their willingness to take
the Eclipse Freemaker codebase from org.jboss and port it to org.apache?
So far it seems we will try it, but I will turn to the Apache legal
team very soon to find out the details. For I can put my question to
them with more concrete details, a question. Over the 12 years you had
several individual contributors who aren't Red Hat employees. Have
they signed anything that says that their contribution is the property
of Red Hat? That is, in our opinion, do you have the rights to give
their work to us, or only the work of Red Hat employees (and I hope
that the committers with such e-mail addresses have done this as part
of their work)? One of those individuals is me, and I have signed
nothing. I faintly remember that once I have marked a check box on web
form about my employer doesn't own my contribution or something of
that kind, but received no feedback.
If not, here's another option you might like to explore. Angero
Zerr (added to cc:) has started a prototype Freemaker Language Server:
https://github.com/angelozerr/freemarker-languageserver
He also has a feature/plugin for Eclipse which uses the language
server to provide Freemaker support in Eclipse:
https://github.com/angelozerr/lsp4e-freemarker
As the future of Eclipse tooling seems to be around language
servers, rather than language-specific plugins, this might be a
better, more supported approach to consider. Maybe he'd want to contribute this work
to the ASF?
It can be the future, but it doesn't seem to be a short term solution,
especially as my quick impression was that LSP4E is immature, and
considering that commit activity seems to be low (same worries with
BlueSky, which brings the most extra value to us). I'm also not yet
seeing if there will be enough momentum behind LSP4E. So this whole
thing is very much in the future.
Nick
On Fri, Mar 9, 2018 at 8:22 AM, Nick Boldt <nboldt(a)redhat.com> wrote:
Here's a newer build:
http://download.jboss.org/jbosstools/oxygen/stable/updates/core/freemarker/
> Is that oxygen snapshot likely to be actually gone any time soon?
It's a snapshot, it could be overwritten at any time. We make no
guarantees that snapshots will persist for more than a day.
> Also, will there be chance to have PR-s merged and trigger a build, or
that's barely possible at this point?
Anything is possible, but the whole point of deprecating, then
removing, was that we don't plan to run any more builds. That's now your job.
Cheers,
Nick
On Fri, Mar 9, 2018 at 2:19 AM, Daniel Dekany <ddekany(a)freemail.hu> wrote:
Friday, March 9, 2018, 3:28:45 AM, Nick Boldt wrote:
> You should point them here:
>
> http://download.jboss.org/jbosstools/neon/stable/updates/core/freemarker/
But this is a quite outdated version.
> No guarantees about snapshot sites, but stable ones are forever.
Is that oxygen snapshot likely to be actually gone any time soon?
Also, will there be chance to have PR-s merged and trigger a build, or
that's barely possible at this point?
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Thanks,
Daniel Dekany
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Thanks,
Daniel Dekany