Hi,

I represent the team behind NBPython, the Python plugin for NetBeans.
First, some context for those that don't know us: Python was officially
supported in NetBeans until around 2010. After languishing for five
years, The NBPython Project was resurrected as a standalone, all-
volunteer project in December 2014. Our code is currently hosted in the
contrib repository (http://hg.netbeans.org/main/contrib/) and we rely
on NetBeans bugtracker. We also have a website http://nbpython.org/ and
a forum http://forums.nbpython.org

Our last release was made in November 2015 and I now think we are ready
for a new one. The point of this email is to: informer as many users
that we are planing to release and get feedback on what we are planing
to do. I hope we will be able to do all that at Apache!

From my side, I have some questions on which I'd love your inputs:
- When do we do the release? Do we want for the Apache transition do be
 done? IMHO, August looks good. This would allow us to release with
NetBeans 9.0
- Do we merge the improved completion and syntax validation? If so, do
we enable them by default?
- Do we merge the RST support?
- Can we migrate our wiki pages from http://nbpython.atlassian.net/
(private and I don't have admin access) to
https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/NETBEANS? If so, I think we
need a Contrib/NBPython space to put the pages.
- How can we support the download of external binaries in the Apache
process? We need to host two custom builds of Jython and some Python
libs (for the new autocompletion/syntax validation).


Here is a small summary of the main changes:
- Improvements to completion and syntax validation. Feedback and review
welcomed. The code is here:
https://bitbucket.org/Jenselme/nb-contrib/commits/branch/jedi The wiki
page: https://dl.jujens.eu/nbpython/autocomplete.html
- Basic support for RST files (code is highlighted, text is run against
the spellchecker). Feedback and review welcomed.
The code is here:
https://bitbucket.org/Jenselme/nb-contrib/commits/branch/rst The wiki
page: https://dl.jujens.eu/nbpython/RST.html

For the full list, see: https://dl.jujens.eu/nbpython/release.html


If you don't want to build NetBeans or the NBMs yourself, you can get
my development NBMs (that I use on my NetBeans 8.2 install) here:
https://bitbucket.org/Jenselme/nb-contrib/downloads/

They include most fixes pushed in the NetBeans main/contrib and my
completion/syntax/RST features.


Feedback and contributions welcomed ;-)

Regards,
-- 
Julien Enselme
http://www.jujens.eu/

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