Picking a fork, aligning between forks, merging changes back to the main repo, etc.

[Potherca]

The following topic have their own discussion:

• Choosing a fork to merge
• Release management

The goal of this discussion is to keep track of the input from plantuml-stdlib/C4-PlantUML#81 in one place, so topics can be discussed without being diluted by other topics (those belong in a separate discussion or ticket).

Reiterating some of the points form the original ticket:

@RicardoNiepel	choosing (and aligning with the owner - should in my view one of the contribs above) one fork and merging everything back Which is the most used / future ready fork and would love to be also a contributor? taking @adrianvlupu fork as the new starting point
@IOrlandoni	I'm a constant user of both projects.
@tawirej	Changes from my fork are used daily by multiple developer teams in my work. The most significant change is rewriting @RicardoNiepel C4-PlantUML to latest PlantUML preprocessor. Additional enhancements are: Person icon in personas box External container and component Live Templates for IntelliJ
@aheil	I am happy if we can consolidate all the contributions in various forks into one project. I introduce the C4 model and C4-PlantUML to three of my courses, which are in sum about 200-300 students each year. About every 6 months, we will have a huge batch of "new" users.
@adrianvlupu	my fork includes many of the changes in @stawirej's repo that make it compatible with different versions of PlantUml Maybe we can merge commits regarding IntelliJ templates and external components/containers if it's something people use.

(Please correct me if I'm wrong or if I missed anything)

[adrianvlupu]

Hi, let me know if everyone is ok with merging my fork and If I can start working on it.

[IOrlandoni]

I'll create different threads for some of the different subjects, so we can advance in parallel.