Txs for the figures, Emilian! One more question: Are the NetCAT testers candidats for becomming future comitters? Or are they 'just' interested in testing?
LieGrue, strub > Am 23.05.2017 um 22:34 schrieb Emilian Bold <[email protected]>: > > NetCAT folks would probably be a good fit for dev@ because they are > actively contributing on current development. > > The only problem is if NetCAT has so much traffic that drowns all other dev@ > discussions. > > I see[1] the peak was July 2016 with 225 messages and July 2015 has 317 > messages. That's probably less than discussion 100 threads and the rest of > the months are more quiet. > > So, it seems to be quite manageable to handle NetCAT on the dev@ mailing > list. Especially considering people seem to use [tags] too. > > PS: I would also make a platform@ mailing list. Previous discussions > mentioned we should try to stick to users@ and dev@ and move Platform > discussions into users@ which I find more odd compared to having NetCAT on > dev@. > > 1. https://netbeans.org/projects/www/lists/netcat/archive > > > --emi > > On Tue, May 23, 2017 at 11:19 PM, Wade Chandler <[email protected]> > wrote: > >> 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 >>> >>> >>
