Hi,
I don't mean to offend anyone (not trying to point any fingers, really)
but I want to raise an issue for discussion.
When Netbeans was moved to Apache I saw a lot of activity in the mailing
list. Everyone was excited and that was great but now I am seeing an
extremely low rate of participation by non-Oracle employees (see
https://github.com/apache/incubator-netbeans/graphs/contributors) and
the overall commit frequency over the past couple of weeks is extremely
low (see
https://github.com/apache/incubator-netbeans/graphs/commit-activity).
I am bringing this to your attention because looking at JIRA's "Created
vs Resolved" issues for the past 30 days we are seeing an exponential
growth of bug reports but a flat amount of resolved issues:
https://issues.apache.org/jira/secure/ConfigureReport.jspa?projectOrFilterId=project-12320634&periodName=daily&daysprevious=30&cumulative=true&versionLabels=major&selectedProjectId=12320634&reportKey=com.atlassian.jira.jira-core-reports-plugin%3Acreatedvsresolved-report&atl_token=A5KQ-2QAV-T4JA-FDED%7C113ee1575eff5807f4be21c1f06ce3f96e46f8b2%7Clout&Next=Next
Speaking from my personal experience as an end-user, I think we've got a
long way to go in terms of fixing regressions before I would consider
jumping from version 8.2 to 9.0. I am routinely running into annoying UI
bugs that were not present in 8.2. Yes, we now have JDK 9 support and
this is a big deal but this yet relevant in my day-to-day work (my
projects use Java 8). My primary concern is using the IDE that will make
me the most productive as a developer. The nightly builds are a step
backwards in that regard.
Anyway, I just wanted to bring up this issue for discussion. I remember
a lot of people initially asked to be listed as committers, and I'm
wondering where they all went, what (if anything) has turned them off
from contributing at this time, and what can be done to bring them back.
Reminder: As mentioned in the past, I not have the time to commit fixes
myself. I am intentionally limiting myself to filing bug reports and
giving you feedback as an end-user. I hope you will respect that scope.
Thank you,
Gili
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