Dear all,
I think it's better to have single netbeans.apache.org. There are no
technical obstacles for redirecting from netbeans.org.
It's true that netbeans.org is the name that people know but this is
also the name that people connect to corporate-developed NetBeans.
Having netbeans.apache.org as primary website will send a message that
NetBeans is now an open community that welcomes participation by Apache
rules. If netbeans.org is left as marketing and consumer website, this
leaves the impression that we produce quality product in the same
"closed" process as before (although AFAIK it is not entirely true for
the nowadays NetBeans) and NetBeans don't need participation in its
development.
I added the following to
https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/pages/viewpage.action?pageId=69408938 :
* There are no technical obstacles to keeping all netbeans.org links
perfectly working by using redirection.
* Single netbeans.apache.org will send clear message that NetBeans is
open community that welcomes development involvement. It is also
"cutting of ties" with the perception of the previous "corporate model".
* There will always be some confusion why there is such split.
* OpenOffice.org is not a good example for splitting because the name of
the software is "OpenOffice.org" so they have to keep it. Also, OOo is
consumer software so it's not expected that users will participate in
its development.
* Example of using the old domain is groovy-lang.org but they decided to
not use groovy.apache.org at all, so again it's single domain for the
project and no split.
Best regards,
Ognyan
