Netcat is a specific and special program allowing non-commiters to be extremely helpful contributors, which has been successful for well over a decade. This is just helping transition this process here:
http://wiki.netbeans.org/NetCAT Wade On May 23, 2017 8:36 AM, "Mark Struberg" <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi Geertjan! > > Technically that's as easy as creating an INFRA ticket. > > But note that such things first need consensus among the PMC. > The Apache way would be to create a [DISCUSS] mail thread. > > Do you think that there will be sufficient traffic on this list? > I'm usually reluctant to introduce lists and resources upfront. I'd only > do it once we get proper traffic. > Do you mind to share the amount of traffic you expect? > Ofc the amount of traffic is only one possible criterium. > Setting up the mailing lists is rather cheap, but getting the community to > the lists is often much more work. > > > txs and LieGrue, > strub > > > > > Am 22.05.2017 um 12:24 schrieb Geertjan Wielenga < > [email protected]>: > > > > Hi all, especially mentors, > > > > We'd like to set up a new mailing list for NetCAT (the NetBeans Community > > Acceptance Testing team), so that as soon as the 1st code donation is > done, > > constituting a Java SE distro of NetBeans IDE, including Java 9 features, > > the NetCAT program can start. > > > > There's always a subset of the NetBeans community that verifies new > > NetBeans releases. Under Apache, that process is different, i.e., the > final > > approval of a release in the incubator is done by the IPMC (i.e., the > > Apache incubator team) and once we're a top level project will be done by > > the PMC (i.e., the Apache NetBeans committers). > > > > However, not everyone is actually going to be doing the final testing > steps > > of NetBeans, that's going to continue under Apache -- and hence we'd > like a > > specific mailing list for this subset of the NetBeans community. > > > > What are the steps to request this mail alias? > > > > Thanks, > > > > Geertjan > >
