Monday, March 5, 2018, 10:46:59 PM, Nick Boldt wrote:
> Great question. See reply in
> https://stackoverflow.com/questions/49072160/why-is- freemarker-ide-in-eclipse- oxygen-jboss-tools-4-5-2- final-deprecated/49119784# 49119784
Thanks!
> Turns out we JUST removed Freemarker tooling from the forthcoming
> JBoss Tools 4.5.3.AM2 build (to be released tomorrow), after deprecating it in July 2017.
>
> So, it could come back if you're willing to take ownership of the
> tooling builds & publication.
Sure, I'm willing to (assuming there's no crazy administrative
overhead). In fact, I have asked about this earlier (like years ago),
as it was difficult to get my PR-s merged.
Or, just my quick idea, but you can perhaps donate the code to the
ASF, where the FreeMarker project is anyway. Haven't looked into how
messy that would be legally though...
> Do you have any stats to demonstrate the size of its user base?
Nope.
People who need this plugin need it because of FreeMarker, and they
have no "relationship" with the other JBoss IDE products, so... as the
installation instructions on apache.freemarker.org say, they only
install the FreeMarker plugin. Then no statistics are collected, as
far as I understand from your answer on StackOverflow.
> Nick
>
>
>
> On Sat, Mar 3, 2018 at 3:05 AM, Daniel Dekany <ddekany@freemail.hu> wrote:
> I have noticed months ago that the FreeMarker plugin was deprecated.
> As a current maintainer of FreeMarker, I would like to know what will
> it practically mean in the future, such as, will PR-s be still
> integrated, will the artifacts be still hosted, and for how long? What
> steps should we (at FreeMarker) take to ensure that the plugin remains
> available for users (if any)?
>
> Also, can someone answer this user question about the deprecation (as
> I'm not entirely sure about the answer either)?:
> https://stackoverflow.com/questions/49072160/why-is- freemarker-ide-in-eclipse- oxygen-jboss-tools-4-5-2- final-deprecated
>
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> Thanks,
> Daniel Dekany
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