I agree though it's a question of 'when' not 'if'. Not sure in terms of timing when would be most strategic.
Gj On Mon, Nov 6, 2017 at 7:16 AM, Antonio <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi, > > I was thinking that this is a great opportunity for branding and/or > renaming the platform, making emphasis that the platform is IDE agnostic, > and that it can be used to build any sort of desktop applications. > > For instance, we could name the platform as "Apache NetBeans Platform" > (ANP), or "Apache NetBeans Application Platform" (ANAP), or "Apache > NetBeans Desktop Application Platform" (ANDAP), or "Apache NetBeans Awesome > Platform for building Flipping Modular Desktop Applications" (ANAPFMDA), or > whatever, instead of just "Apache NetBeans 9.0 Alpha". > > The object being to make it clear that you can use the NetBeans Platform > to build any kind of applications, not just IDEs, and making it clear that > Apache NetBeans is much more than an IDE. > > Choosing a name that is easy to find in search engines would be a plus. > > Cheers, > Antonio > > P.S.: IntelliJ started blogging about their platform on June 2017, they > even have a specific Twitter account: > > https://blog.jetbrains.com/platform/2017/06/introducing-jetb > rains-platform-blog-and-twitter-for-plugin-developers/ > > > El 05/11/17 a las 20:22, Geertjan Wielenga escribió: > >> Here's the proposal, at the start of this thread: >> >> - Apache NetBeans 9.0 Alpha -- NetBeans Platform only (i.e., only the core >> modules, possibly without JavaHelp). In this way, we'll have worked >> through >> the process for a coherent part of Apache NetBeans and will only have >> JavaHelp and SwingLayout to deal with in terms of GPL. (I believe SwingX >> is >> not applicable to the platform, but the IDE.) >> >> - Apache NetBeans 9.0 Beta -- Everything currently in Apache NetBeans Git, >> i.e., the above and then also including all the other clusters currently >> there, i.e., Java SE tooling. >> >> - Apache NetBeans 9.0 -- All of the above, including NetCAT involvement. >> This will be the officially tested version of Apache NetBeans. >> >> Gj >> >> On Sun, Nov 5, 2017 at 8:20 PM, Geertjan Wielenga < >> [email protected]> wrote: >> >> We're talking about an alpha release here, not beta, and not final. >>> >>> The html.editor module is not part of the platform, which is part of the >>> plan for the alpha release. >>> >>> There are no failing unit tests for the alpha release: >>> >>> https://builds.apache.org/view/Incubator%20Projects/job/ >>> incubator-netbeans-release/ >>> >>> Gj >>> >>> On Sun, Nov 5, 2017 at 8:17 PM, Matthias Bläsing < >>> [email protected]> wrote: >>> >>> Hey, >>>> >>>> Am Sonntag, den 05.11.2017, 19:57 +0100 schrieb Geertjan Wielenga: >>>> >>>>> On Wed, Nov 1, 2017 at 8:21 PM, Jan Lahoda <[email protected]> wrote: >>>>> >>>>> FWIW, I've started with a Jenkins job to build release artefacts, >>>>>> for the >>>>>> with "9.0 alpha" platform-only release here: >>>>>> https://builds.apache.org/view/Incubator%20Projects/job/ >>>>>> incubator-netbeans-release/ >>>>>> >>>>>> Please note this is still a work-in-progress. >>>>>> >>>>>> The idea is that the build should do very minimal checks to verify >>>>>> releaseability. When the build passes/is blue, we could send the >>>>>> release >>>>>> vote e-mail. >>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>> From #57 onwards, the build of NetBeans 9.0 Alpha (i.e., >>>>> specifically, and >>>>> narrowly, the NetBeans Platform) is blue: >>>>> >>>>> https://builds.apache.org/view/Incubator%20Projects/job/incubator-net >>>>> beans-release/57/ >>>>> >>>>> That means we can send the release vote e-mail. >>>>> >>>> >>>> I disagree. Lars send an important message: The donation from oracle >>>> came with important files removed. One such example was the >>>> "html.editor" module, which lost it much of its functionality because >>>> of removed DTDs. The same is true for XML schema files and such. >>>> >>>> So from my POV we need to do the same as for the fixing of licenses: Go >>>> through every module, run at least the unittests, check why they fail >>>> and fix them. >>>> >>>> Netbeans was always released after NetCat - that should catch it, but I >>>> would not release at this point. >>>> >>>> Greetings >>>> >>>> Matthias >>>> >>>> >>> >>> >>
