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 >>> >> >>
