On Tue, Jun 20, 2017 at 12:21 PM, Emilian Bold <[email protected]> wrote: > ...It's also unclear to me how "product management" and "user experience > design" would work under Apache....
The (P)PMC drives the project and can setup those things however it wants (although hearing of "product management" here gives me the corporate shivers ;-) UI and UX are in my experience very hard to get right in open source projects as it's quite easy to get into bikeshedding about minor things. I don't know how NetBeans does that but I suppose supporting themes that are independent from the code helps - people can then contribute their own themes inside or outside of Apache NetBeans. There might even be a business in creating commercial themes, as getting those right requires a lot of effort and focus that can be hard to find in a participative project - and Apache loves to enable businesses (although they don't have a voice inside our projects). -Bertrand
