Re: Apache proposal for NetBeans

Comparison to Eclipse and IBM handing over the reigns to Eclipse Foundation
?
I don't know if it can be compared 1:1 but from what I know that move was a
benefit for the Eclipse IDE/platform.

Besides the governance aspect there's more to it if you read the wiki:

* Hg --> Git
* netbeans.org dies in favour of Apache Issue tracking, wiki, mailing
lists, etc.
* and so on.

This is not a small undertaking. Btw: I'm one of those strange persons who
prefer Hg over Git but I fully admit that Git seems to have won the battle
(not so much because of Git itself, but because of GitHub if you ask me).
But sure, I can live with Git instead of Hg and it certainly won't stop me
from contributing if allowed.  Others may actually view Hg a detriment to
contributing so also in this sense the move is good. But on a personal note
I'm sad to see a major Java project leaving Hg. Soon only the JDK will be
left.  :-(


I'm definitely on the positive side of this one.

Peter

On Tue, Sep 13, 2016 at 8:22 PM, Wade Chandler <[email protected]>
wrote:

> Indeed…I totally think that is the case. I think when you have a system
> like OpenOffice, and what it was/is competing against in the market, and it
> is open source, and your governance model won’t allow other contributors to
> come in and do as much as  you, or you try to hold onto the reigns to
> tightly, or because you don’t have the resources to absorb changes, then
> you inevitably invite forks or other forms of competition, and if the fork
> has a better governance and acceptance model, IMO, it is more likely to win
> out if you have people or corporations trying to contribute. I think this
> is a good thing for NB to make this move considering OpenOffice versus
> thinking of it as a reason not to do it.
>
> Wade
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> Wade Chandler
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> On Sep 13, 2016, at 13:59, Jason Lee <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> For what it's worth, I think LibreOffice killed OpenOffice more than
> Oracle+Apache. :) I'm cautiously optimistic about this move. For what
> little that's worth.
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