> The only obligatory thing is that the developer site must be at netbeans.apache.org.
This is what I've been assuming all along but somehow it seemed almost settled that we will use a single website for everybody. I agree with this netbeans.org / netbeans.apache.org split. --emi On Mon, Apr 10, 2017 at 2:27 PM, Daniel Gruno <[email protected]> wrote: > On 10-04-2017 13:22, Emilian Bold wrote: > > Hello, > > > > I believe all the Incubation changes will take a serious toll on our > users > > if we have to change the mailing lists, drop the forums, move the wiki > and > > use another main website. > > > > It seems essential to me to use the netbeans.org domain and preserve as > > much of the site / links as possible. > > > > OpenOffice for example uses the https://www.openoffice.org/ website: we > > should follow the same path! > > > > The way I see it, NetBeans is not just a developer library or tool, it's > > also a product. So, we have different categories of users, unlike, say, > > Apache Commons IO. We will be hurting ourselves as a product with so many > > drastic changes. > > There are two audiences here, keep that in mind: > > 1) USERS of NetBeans (who will visit www.netbeans.org) > 2) DEVELOPERS of NetBeans (who will visit netbeans.apache.org) > > The best way to handle this is simply to, yes, have two web sites - one > for users of the project and one for the developers. There is nothing > standing in the way of that. The only obligatory thing is that the > developer site must be at netbeans.apache.org. > > With regards, > Daniel. > > > > > The transition should be smooth: existing and new users should not see > > anything new except the good news that we are under Apache now! > > > > --emi > > > >
