Re: NetBeans Governance Board Questions

These answers are out of the timeline, aren't they?

2011/10/11 John Yeary <[email protected]>

> Hello All,
>
> Please see my responses inline.
>
> On Sat, Oct 1, 2011 at 8:18 PM, Tom Wheeler <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> Hello,
>>
>> I am writing because you have been nominated to serve on the NetBeans
>> Governance Board.
>>
>> If you're planning to accept the nomination and stand for election, I
>> would also like to invite you to respond to a few questions on behalf
>> of the NetBeans community.  I'm asking exactly the same questions of
>> each candidate.  I will gather all responses sent to me by 14:00 GMT
>> on Wednesday (5 October) and will post them to the nbdiscuss mailing
>> list.  This will give the NetBeans community an opportunity to better
>> know each candidate before voting begins.
>>
>> Here are the questions:
>>
>>
>> 1)  What do you think is the most important issue the Governance Board
>> can solve during your term and what will you do to solve it?
>>
>>
> I am not sure what the most pressing issue is for the governance board at
> the moment. As an EE developer, I do have a vested interest in making sure
> that EE support is the best among all the major IDEs (Eclipse, IntelliJ). I
> would like to push to make sure that we continue to have first class support
> for the EE platform.
>
>
>
>>
>> 2)  As NetBeans is an open source project, its users have an
>> obligation to help make it better.  What is your plan to get the
>> community more involved in contributing to NetBeans?
>>
>
> As a JUG leader, and a multiple community lead on Java.net, I believe that
> the lowest hanging fruit for user involvement is to submit bug reports and
> enhancements. However, I don't want to put the cart before the horse. It is
> more important to get people to use the platform. As a natural consequence
> the bug reporting and and enhancement requests will follow. I will continue
> to use NetBeans for demonstrations at JUG events, and technical talks. I
> will encourage other JUG leaders who are NetBeans fans to do so as well.
>
> Additionally, I think that it takes some encouragement from community
> leaders to motivate people to participate in projects; NetBeans, or
> otherwise. Large F/OSS projects have a barrier to entry that new developers
> are afraid of: a large code base. The first step is to find developers in
> the community, and connect them to people on the NetBeans development team
> to mentor/partner, or communicate with. That way they have someone to
> discuss the issue in detail with. It also gives them a reference point to
> start from when trying to fix bugs.
>
> I also pass along to my JUG the importance of blogging, and encourage them
> to create tutorials. This not only helps them to understand the IDE better,
> but contributes to the NetBeans knowledge base. I also ask them to
> participate in the NetBeans user forums, and to help their fellow developers
> with questions which they may have the answer to.
>
>
>>
>>
>> 3)  The NetBeans project does not have a mission statement.  Do you
>> think it should, and if so, what should it be?
>>
>>
> Yes. The NetBeans IDE and Platform should be a developers first choice in
> learning and developing in new Java SE and EE technologies.
>
>
>
>>
>> Best regards,
>>
>> Tom
>>
>> --
>> Tom Wheeler
>> http://www.tomwheeler.com/
>>
>
>
>
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> John Yeary
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