On 13/10/17 10:49, Peter Steele wrote:
The Apache integration should be very prominent on the main page, it should link to all the relevant Apache pages and should ask for volunteers etc. The Apache wiki is ok, but most people know about netbeans.org.
Exactly. We should plan the announcement of Apache NetBeans very carefully. Some key messages I'd suggest: "We're kicking butt again", "Come and participate" and "How can we help you today?".
In terms of my comments on "modern" and small things. I can't think of too many specific things off hand but what I would say is - I think a subset of the modules you can download should become core - the look at feel of netbeans puts me off a bit, I like the intellij dark look and feel (the font is much nicer to work with)
Good point as well. We can't launch NetBeans on Unixes without the -J-Dsun.java2d.dpiaware=true and without using the GTK Look and Feel as a default option. The Swing Look and Feel was good in the nineties.
- having moved over to gradle I find the gradle integration in netbeans not as good good as it's competitors. I think netbeans should divorce the build system from the project choice so I could (as a basic example) choose maven html5 or gradle html5 or maven basic java as a project choice.
We should start adding feature requirements to JIRA.
- android integration is important to me, would be good to have some standard support.
Android has been missing for ages. And Google is desperate looking for a good Android IDE. Is there any funding here?
