So, at this point, what is the repository of record for ongoing
development of that subset of NetBeans included in the initial
contribution? I mean real functional changes, not licensing or build
stuff.

Maybe I am missing some very obvious FAQ (and I surely missed prior
discussions), but I looked in

http://netbeans.apache.org/
https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/NETBEANS/NetBeans+Transition+Process
https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/NETBEANS/How+to+Participate

and none appear to say definitively.

I ask because there appear to be at least some divergent changes. For example,

https://github.com/apache/incubator-netbeans/commits/master/jshell.support/src/org/netbeans/modules/jshell/support/ShellSession.java

does not include

http://hg.netbeans.org/main-silver/rev/fcaaa60addf7

There seem to be bigger differences, too; for example
`org.openide.windows.ModeSelector` dates back to May in Mercurial, yet
seems to be absent from Git. If you simply check Tools » Plugins »
Updates on a fresh build you see that there are a bunch of updates
coming from the original UC servers; and these of course only show
changes which happened to involve bumping some
`OpenIDE-Module-Specification-Version`.

So is the code drop based on some very old snapshot? This is not
encouraging to developers who want to make sure changes they spend
time working on are sent to the “right” fork. If some divergence is
indeed deliberate, this ought to be called out somewhere prominent.

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