Re: Apache proposal for NetBeans

Excellent. That's great to hear, Steven.

We're now trying to draw up as complete a list of contributors as 
possible, see it near the end of the proposal here:

https://wiki.apache.org/incubator/NetBeansProposal

What kind of contributions would you be interested in providing for the 
future Apache NetBeans?

Do you have concrete areas you'd like to work on? Or specific areas 
where you'd like to fix bugs?

If so, would be great to add you to the list of contributors -- as well 
as anyone else on this list who is reading this and would like to get 
involved!

Would be great to be able to make use of all the NetBeans API knowledge 
that we have built up amongst ourselves on this mailing list -- anyone 
is free to drop me a mail or respond to this one with ideas for how you 
might like to get involved in this upcoming Apache project around NetBeans.

Thanks,

Gj

On 13-9-2016 21:27, Steven Yi wrote:
> For what it's worth, I find the proposed changes very inviting and
> find myself more interested now to make contributions than I had in
> the past.  I do have a small dream that a Github-based system can be
> worked out, one similar to Apache Groovy.  Assuming the project will
> be accepted for incubation, I look forward to following the transition
> and looking at opportunities to contribute.
>
> Many thanks to Sun, Oracle, and all involved to bring Netbeans this
> far, and best wishes for where Netbeans goes from here!
>
> steven
>
>
> On Tue, Sep 13, 2016 at 3:03 PM, Matthias Bläsing
> <[email protected]> wrote:
>> Hey,
>>
>> Am Dienstag, den 13.09.2016, 10:36 +0200 schrieb geertjan wielenga:
>>> Here's the proposal published over the past hour:
>>>
>>> https://wiki.apache.org/incubator/NetBeansProposal
>>>
>>> Take note of the many initial committers, which includes James
>>> Gosling (father of Java), a range of developers from various
>>> organizations, as well as a big group from Oracle.
>> Broadening and simplifying the netbeans contribution process is very
>> good and it looks as if the general response is positive. I hope this
>> is not just to write off netbeans silently, that would be a shame.
>>
>> One think that should be carefully taken care is making sure the
>> current contributers are included in the effort. The initial committer
>> list for example does not cover the current committers to the netbeans
>> codebase (or at least not the complete list).
>>
>> Hoping for a bright future for netbeans (Apache or not)
>>
>> Matthias