I agree, we should consider doing, maybe twice a month, a Skype call or Zoom call or something lke that, and then everything could be explained by audio, even though based on Apache rules none of it would be binding, but it would be just to clarify things.
How to try out the release is explained at the start of the VOTE thread, indeed without following those steps you should not vote. Gj On Saturday, May 26, 2018, Victor Williams Stafusa da Silva < [email protected]> wrote: > @GW > > I am someone that usually is only an occasional lurker here. So, I'll speak > what are the reasons to not vote anything. I don't know if RC1 is good > enough for a release because I didn't tested it. Casting a vote in this > circumstance would be irresponsible, because in my opinion, I shouldn't > vote either for or against something that I don't have enough knowledge > about. I.E. the classic bikeshed vs atomic plant problem. > > This would of course, spark some other discussion about why do many people > only lurk here but very rarely post anything and how to get people more > involved. In my case, I think that it is very hard to understand what the > heck is going on, since I'll need to dig up information in a lot of mailing > lists archives, a very time-consuming, laborious and boring task. > > I could argue that mailing lists are an horrible format nowadays for > achieving multiple-participants discussions, it looks like something right > from the Stone Age if compared to other more modern formats like forums, > social networks, StackOverflow (which works hard to at least try to improve > the signal-to-noise ratio), Disqus, etc, which are much more friendly for > people who are searching for useful information in past conversations > instead only participating in what is happening right now. This particular > problem severely hinders my participation here and in many other places too > that I'm only occasionally lurking (like JDK lists). It all goes to the > same root problem: for occasionally participating people, understanding > what the heck is going on is hard, searching for information on that is > also hard and the signal-to-noise ratio is very low. However, this is an > issue for something else. > > Victor Williams Stafusa da Silva > > 2018-05-26 6:34 GMT-03:00 Geertjan Wielenga < > [email protected]>: > > > Done! > > > > Others, please do so too. > > > > The voting process is the culmination of an Apache release -- and > there'll > > be really a lot of them for Apache NetBeans. The simplest and most > > effective way you can show your support for Apache NetBeans is to > actively > > participate in the voting process. There's no standing on the sidelines > in > > Apache, no lurking on the mailing lists, especially when it comes to > > voting. > > > > Thanks, > > > > Gj > > > > > > On Sat, May 26, 2018 at 11:19 AM, Emilian Bold < > [email protected] > > > > > wrote: > > > > > Hello, > > > > > > We have insufficient votes on the Apache NetBeans (incubating) RC1 > > release. > > > > > > So, I encourage everyone to join the [email protected] > > > mailing list and add their non-binding vote to our thread: > > > https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/13af566fb266308d0a91c3e860d22f > > > b1766464df9fe94126d74084fb@%3Cgeneral.incubator.apache.org%3E > > > > > > --emi > > > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > > > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] > > > For additional commands, e-mail: > [email protected] > > > > > > For further information about the NetBeans mailing lists, visit: > > > https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/NETBEANS/Mailing+lists > > > > > > > > > > > > > > >
