On 11/5/26 21:29, Owen Thomas wrote: > On Thu, 5 Nov 2026 at 22:30, Michael Bien <[email protected]> wrote: > >> I want to remind everyone that we have a rust cluster in the master >> branch that never made it into a release because we currently have no >> maintainers for it. And that cluster is tiny in comparison. > > This does sound interesting, but I don't have the capacity to do this now. > I would like to reimplement my work in Rust, perhaps as a research project > topic for a postgraduate degree in a few years time. Perhaps, at that time, > I may wish to maintain a Rust module for Netbeans, so long as doing this > doesn't become a distraction to my own work. > > So, park that in your pocket for now; I could come back to it down the road.
You can test it by building with -Dcluster.config=full instead of "release". CI on github builds and tests with "full" config by default. So if you download a dev build from a PR (which had dev builds enabled), it would have rust in it too. This was at least the original idea how to phase in new clusters. Make them opt-in during build first and once certain quality is reached we would add them to the release config. But we do also need maintainers for extra features (for existing features too). It was never easier to produce code than it is today - this isn't the bottle neck. (I would argue producing code was rarely the bottle neck in projects - in my experience at least, even before LLMs. Most time is usually spent after the initial code drop on change requests, features and maintenance) -mbien --------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
