Accept URL for templatePath

[driew12]

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It would be nice to be able to use a template located by a URL.

For example, when we need to use the same template in multiple projects. And it would help to easily maintain changes to the template without copying it to all projects after every change.

In my case, I use git-changelog-lib with the maven plugin. And i want to use something like that:

...
						<configuration>
							<templateFile>https://raw.githubusercontent.com/tomasbjerre/git-changelog-lib/master/src/main/resources/changelog.mustache</templateFile>
						</configuration>
...

[tomasbjerre]

I would put the plugin configuration in a parent pom and reuse that in different projects. Something like what I have done here: https://github.com/tomasbjerre/bjurr-bom/blob/8d16cfdd4fc29c230afd701f2c540e19dc33f33d/pom.xml#L141

[driew12]

Unfortunately, in my case, it is impossible to edit the parent pom file :( What do you think about this solution? - https://github.com/tomasbjerre/git-changelog-lib/pull/185

[tomasbjerre]

If you cannot change the parent, you can add it as a dependency: https://github.com/tomasbjerre/bjurr-bom/tree/8d16cfdd4fc29c230afd701f2c540e19dc33f33d?tab=readme-ov-file#import-the-bom

I think that is the solution for this kind of issue. It solves all other configuration that you may want to have for all your projects within your organization.