Hi all, Here are a few observations/ideas, based on the last few releases:
1. *Release teams.* This is an idea by Neil -- let's have for each release a team of about 5 or 6 people focused on doing specific things, e.g., let's have at least two release managers, Eric did a really great job, in general even greater would be two people (e.g., Neil and me) to keep in sync and call each other once a week around the release, plus a few people to create binaries (e.g., John McDonnell who does the Mac OS X installer), as well as a few others (e.g., Ömer Halit Çizmeci did great work on documentation) and a few testers dedicated to the release, e.g., one or two per operating system. If we like this idea, who'd like to be on the 12.6 release team? Speak up. :-) 2. *The next major release.* My proposal here is simple -- we should do Apache NetBeans 13 whenever we have incorporated nb-javac (which we can now legally do) completely into Apache NetBeans, not as a confusing module that needs to be installed somewhere after startup. That will be the point where we are fully mature and independent as a project without weirdness. From 13 onwards, maybe each release should be a major release, i.e., there are enough numbers in the world, we don't need minor releases anymore after that breakpoint. 3. *Release README.* We need to update the post release steps here, i.e., this document is gold and needs to be constantly up to date. https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/NETBEANS/Apache+NetBeans+Release+README 4. *12.6 feature freeze is less than a month away.* Who'd like to be release manager/s for this release and, see above, who'd like to be on the release team? In whatever capacity, Neil and myself will be on that team as well, see the schedule below: https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/NETBEANS/Release+Schedule Thanks, other comments and thoughts welcome. Gj
