Is a developer who uses the NetBeans platform in a third party application a 
user or developer?

Randall Wood


> On Apr 10, 2017, at 07:30, Geertjan Wielenga 
> <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> Good news.
> 
> Gj
> 
> On Mon, Apr 10, 2017 at 1:27 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
>>> 
>> 
>> 

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