Re: [mevenide-dev] [IMPORTANT] netbeans maven2 to be part of default netbeans distribution

Congratulations Milos !

Laurent.

On Mon, Jun 2, 2008 at 8:17 AM, Milos Kleint <[email protected]> wrote:

> Hello,
>
> for 6.5 the netbeans maven integration could become part of the
> default distribution, I consider it a major achievement for evveryone
> involved. Apart from getting a much wider user audience, we will also
> get support from netbeans.org devs and sun management. That means all
> the technologies that didn't work so far or worked in suboptimal
> manner, like webservices, profiler or visual web, shall be fully
> supported usecases for the base IDE in the future.
>
> There's a few prerequisites however.
> 1. the source needs to be moved to hg.netbeans.org, I assume current
> commiters gain automatically access to the new repository.
> 2. the projects need to be converted ant. That's something I will have
> to cope with.
> 3. The sources will be repackaged (to org.netbeans.modules.maven.*
> probably)
> 4. And they will have to be relicensed to CDDL+GPL2 (CP exception) dual
> license.
> So I will need a written agreement from everyone involved in the
> netbeans integration.
> from what I could dig out of fisheye, it should involve these people:
> Milos Kleint, Anuradha Gunasekara, Laurent Foret, Eric Hartmann as
> commiters
> Daniel Mohni, Raphael Pieroni, Mathias Arens as contributors
> If there's anyone else, please speak up. The Sun legal department will
> approach you soon with regard to signing copyright assignment (and
> maybe other documents)
> 5. we will have to move all outstanding issues to netbeans.org
> 6. update the website etc..
>
> Comments, questions most welcome.
>
> Milos Kleint
>
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