Will "Performance" (and stability) sometime appear in NetBeans roadmap?

"NukemBy" <[email protected]> Fri, 09 Dec 2016 19:55:27 +0000
Newsgroups gmane.comp.java.netbeans.devel
Message-ID <[email protected]>
geertjan wrote:
> Motivations re NetBeans at Apache are clearly described: 
> https://wiki.apache.org/incubator/NetBeansProposal
> 
> Gj

I've already seen this link - motivation there is very generic. Frankly speaking I'm not enough familiar about how ASF works and specifically have no idea who is funding and managing projects there.

The link says (slighly re-worded for brevity) - "... individual contributors from other organizations, as well as self-employed individual contributors ...  are expected to contribute to NetBeans" ... 

Probably I'm too pessimistic, but why will they do this? NetBeans is rather complex and just to start doing something minor, but correctly implemented, it will take weeks/months from rather highly skilled developers to get acquainted with the code. Such people typically work for money, unless they just love NetBeans very much :) - therefore I'm somewhat pessimistic regarding huge inflow of fresh blood ... 

Another thing - how is it different from current process? Anyway to contribute to "something under ASF" you need to become a contributor there -> this means contributor license agreement and other 'complication' staff - i see no much difference from contributing to open source Oracle software. Situation may get significantly different if just hosted on github under something like MIT license - that way anyone having github account can fork project, do some enhancements and send merge-request back to owner, with minimal paper work and much more efficiency thus decreasing entry effort. As far as i know this way does not work in ASF (as well as in Oracle).