Re: Status or future of Woodstock in Netbeans

Hi folks,

First off, thanks to Robert for bringing this to a head, it was high 
time we got an open discussion about this going. I've posted some more 
info on Woodstock on nbusers:

http://forums.netbeans.org/viewtopic.php?t=4081

Rather than duplicate the conversation here, let's just move it over to 
nbusers.

Thanks,

-J

Robert Hook wrote:
> I am fairly certain that at least some of the responses I will receive
> to the following will be "ask in the right forums", but as you will
> read, asking in the right forums is like shouting into an empty bucket.
>
> Can anyone tell me, and others, what the future - long, short and
> immediate - for Project Woodstock is in Netbeans? As it stands at the
> moment, you can see that people are crying out in the forums
>
> https://woodstock.dev.java.net/servlets/ForumMessageList?forumID=2879
>
> and in the mailing list
>
> https://woodstock.dev.java.net/servlets/BrowseList?listName=users&by=date&from=2008-10-01&to=2008-10-31&first=1&count=57
>
> asking the same thing, with zero response.
>
> I have made the possibly fatal mistake of committing a large project to
> using Netbeans, Visual JSF, and Woodstock, and after considerable work,
> when I hit a bug, have found that there is zero support available anywhere.
>
> That takes me to a meta-gripe, which I'm hoping someone can actually
> throw some light on. The netbeans wiki
> (http://wiki.netbeans.org/FaqChat) advises several chat forums. I've
> been crying into those forums for several weeks, and have never received
> any answer - if they are not in some wise an 'official' channel, could
> the wiki be updated to reflect the *real* place to direct questions like
> this?
>
> I really, really want Netbeans to be successful, it is far and away the
> best IDE for java development I've used, but if this continued complete
> inability to find any meaningful support continues, I'm going to have to
> re-evaluate and probably take my dev team back to a commercial product.
>