Mon, Apr 10, 2017 at 12:58 PM, Mark Struberg wrote: > I personally know at least a dozen devs who seriously tried NetBeans again > (most moving from Idea) after the move to the ASF got announced! > And that's just from the few people I spoke to.
I think that indeed the move to Apache is going to bring in a range of new developers. Really looking forward to that! Gj On Mon, Apr 10, 2017 at 1:29 PM, Geertjan Wielenga < [email protected]> wrote: > On Mon, Apr 10, 2017 at 12:36 PM, Mark Struberg wrote: > > I can only guess what caused this heavy increase of new users. >> Might it be caused by the move to real open governance? >> Or something else I missed? > > > > I am totally skeptical about all surveys on software usage. I don't > believe any of them, in any shape or form. They should be rejected, > dismissed, ignored. > > They represent nothing other than the preferences of those who happened to > fill out the survey and they say nothing else beyond that. > > Gj > > > > > On Mon, Apr 10, 2017 at 1:07 PM, Emilian Bold <[email protected]> > wrote: > >> > I personally know at least a dozen devs who seriously tried NetBeans >> again (most moving from Idea) after the move to the ASF got announced! >> >> Interesting. >> >> > Have asked this once before, but why is this happening? Other Apache >> project have kept their own domains. It seems a detrimental thing to do. >> >> Yes, it's quite detrimental. I'll open another thread about this, >> hopefully >> we'll see a clear answer. >> >> >> >> --emi >> >> On Mon, Apr 10, 2017 at 2:02 PM, Neil C Smith < >> [email protected] >> > wrote: >> >> > Hi, >> > >> > On Mon, 10 Apr 2017 at 11:51 Emilian Bold <[email protected]> >> wrote: >> > >> > I doubt the Apache move (which started late 2016) has any impact. >> > >> > >> > Yes. I'd agree with that - if any impact I'd expect it to happen with >> the >> > first Apache release - at the moment I reckon there are still a lot of >> > people unaware of this process. >> > >> > >> > If anything, I suspect the incubation will have a negative impact short >> > term due to the ... websites moving, >> > >> > >> > Have asked this once before, but why is this happening? Other Apache >> > project have kept their own domains. It seems a detrimental thing to >> do. >> > >> > Best wishes, >> > >> > Neil >> > -- >> > Neil C Smith >> > Artist & Technologist >> > www.neilcsmith.net >> > >> > Praxis LIVE - hybrid visual IDE for creative coding - >> www.praxislive.org >> > >> > >
