+1 On Sat, Jun 27, 2020 at 4:06 AM Patrick Musembi <patumusemb...@gmail.com> wrote:
> +1 > > On Sat, Jun 27, 2020, 09:33 Geertjan Wielenga <geert...@apache.org> wrote: > > > Hi all, > > > > If Azul were to distribute a bundle of NetBeans with Zulu, i.e., the > bundle > > would be downloadable from an Azul domain, would we as a community be > > interested in doing the work of putting that bundle together? > > > > It would be a process that would take place once a year, with our > NetBeans > > LTS together with whatever the current LTS of Zulu is at that time. > > > > We in the NetBeans community would create and test the bundle, and would > > approve it as a community — sometime after the NetCAT process since the > > binaries would need to exist for the bundle to be created, so maybe > simply > > by approving the bundle in a thread, not as an official vote thread since > > the bundle would not be an Apache release, of course. > > > > Potentially, Azul could create a plugin for updating Zulu after it’s been > > installed — and put that plugin into our Plugin Portal. > > > > This would solve our problem of not having a JDK vendor that provides the > > complete NetBeans out of the box experience. The bundle would be called > > “Apache NetBeans Zulu Bundle” and we’d point to it from our download > page, > > with statements that it is not an Apache release, etc. > > > > With my three hats “Apache”, “NetBeans”, “Azul” on at the same time, this > > sounds good. > > > > Thoughts on this? > > > > Thanks, > > > > Gj > > > -- Regards, Carl
