Project Templates Repository

[Starlight220]

@ThadHouse told me a while ago that there are many ways to create projects and that it's a nuisance to keep all of them updated. Some of the list:

• VS Code
• Standalone Utility
• frc-char/sysid
• RobotBuilder x2 (new + old)
• GradleRIO examples (to be removed for 2022)

None of these are convenient for teams using Git and alternative IDEs.

My suggestion is to create a separate repository that contains all the templates (I agree that a separate repository for each template is a bit much) and then any tools that need the templates pull from it.

My current idea for implementation is using a git submodule, but that can be discussed.

[ThadHouse]

We will likely just post a zip of all the templates with every release. It doesn't need to be in a separate repo. It would just be built with every release. I can generate them when I build vscode

[Starlight220]

The idea was that teams can clone/fork the repository to create robot projects. And a zip doesn't fix the template duplication.

[ThadHouse]

If it was a repo, the repo would be allwpilib. We would not be creating a separate repo for templates. Too hard to maintain.

[ThadHouse]

The tools I plan on solving by moving the gradle portions of the templates into allwpilib, that way they will still be up to date.