Awesome, you're very welcome, keep doing what you're doing, and I've given you access to Confluence (you may need to log in/out).
Gj On Sat, Jan 1, 2022 at 9:16 PM Thomas <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi there, > > I'm Thomas. > > After on and off working with Netbeans since it was called Forte or > SunOne, I finally convinced my self to try a bit of contribution. > > So I started to rummaging through the Jira issues, took the liberty to > close some obvious SPAM issues as 'Invalid', (Btw: is this the way it > should be done? I was rather surprised, that I'm allowed to close issues > in the first place!) found a common reason to 6 of the issues > (https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/NETBEANS-6349), added comments to > others that I hope are of some help, and also added some Issues of my own. > > Now, in two cases, NETBEANS-4595 > <https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/NETBEANS-4595> and NETBEANS-6345 > <https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/NETBEANS-6345>, I had the > impression, that people struggle with how to properly cope with > developing with several JDKs, and how this might impact the integration > of build tools (i. e. maven, ant, gradle) > > So I would like to do a piece, that does give some instructions and > advice for that. > > But on top of not yet having editing rights to > https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/NETBEANS (the wiki states, I > should ask here for permission), I'm not sure, whether this would be the > right place for it, as it seems to be geared to developing Netbeans, > rather than using. > > So I'm just asking, to be put into the right starting position, to help > out with documentation. > > I might be able to help out with fixing bugs later on; but I would need > to feel about my way in NBs code and process some time, before I'm ready > for that. > > As for NETBEANS-4595 > <https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/NETBEANS-4595> and NETBEANS-6345 > <https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/NETBEANS-6345>, I personally > would have deemed them as 'Not a Bug', at best they could be turned into > a 'Request for enhancement', but even this is in doubt, as Netbeans > obviously *has* a way to deal with that - its just different from what > the users expected. In a commercial driven support organization, these > usually get rudely closed as 'Won't fix'. What is the accepted policy > here in cases like this? > > (This might still be another thing, that should get documented somewhere) > > Regards, > > Thomas > > > > > > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > 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 > > > >
