There's heaps of improvements: https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/NETBEANS/NetBeans+9.0+-+New+and+Noteworthy
Gj On Wed, Sep 27, 2017 at 9:27 AM, Emilian Bold <emilian.b...@gmail.com> wrote: > We should also allow some new features and improvements. We cannot have > NetBeans under Apache for 1 year and basically have no Apache-contributed > feature to show for, only IP cleanup and stuff like that. > > There's a whole lot of contributors and committers: does everybody want to > do only this? Because I don't! > > BTW, how many are being involved in the new Apache build system or IP > clearance, etc.? I don't see people jumping in on this rather boring job. > > So, I *am* doing IP cleanup, but I would most certainly want to commit new > features and bugfixes! I found and fixed a few bugs just these weeks while > working on yameter.com > > I don't remember agreeing on a feature freeze within Apache, we just got > the codebase donated. > > The community should be able to walk and chew bubble gum at the same time. > If some people are focusing on the build system I don't see why other > people can't focus on something else as long as they don't break something > or get in the way? > > The real question is: are we really distributing the load *and trust* among > committers or not? Because it seems to me everybody is very willing to > heavily restrict what we should be allowed to do. > > > > --emi > > On Tue, Sep 26, 2017 at 9:14 PM, Matthias Bläsing < > mblaes...@doppel-helix.eu > > wrote: > > > Hey, > > > > Am Dienstag, den 26.09.2017, 09:17 +0200 schrieb Geertjan Wielenga: > > > [Discuss-Request: Focus on getting a release out or adding functions] > > > > if I'm not mistaken, the netbeans 9 feature freeze had already happened > > when the migration to apache began. I would focus on bugfixing and > > blocking new features. > > > > With the apache migration process there is enough development needed, > > just to get the codebase releaseable. Libraries need to > > removed/replaced, if the are incompatibe with the apache project > > (SwingX is LGPL and so can't be distributed with apache netbeans) or > > installers to get these libraries at runtime need to be implemented. > > > > While I agree, that adding new features would pull more potential > > contributers, I would consider a stable base more important, to get > > going from there. Java 9 is out and the excitement is already there and > > people ask for netbeans 9, so I would prioritize that. > > > > My 2 cent > > > > Matthias > > > > > > >
