Hi, I assume we should work on getting the code into a state where we could release a (beta) of (Java) IDE. When the platform/alpha is released, I'll change the release job: https://builds.apache.org/view/Incubator%20Projects/job/incubator-netbeans-release/
to build the IDE (I'll let it build platform separately as well) and run the appropriate tests, including "ant verify-libs-and-licenses" (which checks that every external binary has a license file, and that the license file passes some basic checks). I ran verify-libs-and-licenses manually, and there is (unsurprisingly) a lot of failures. I fixed a few here: https://github.com/apache/incubator-netbeans/pull/285 Among other problems there are several (L)GPL libraries we will need to solve somehow besides javac: db.drivers/external/mysql-connector-java-5.1.23-license.txt hibernate4lib/external/hibernate-4.3.1-lib-license.txt libs.jshell.compile/external/nb-jshell-license.txt (presumably compile-time only at this time) o.jdesktop.beansbinding/external/beansbinding-1.2.1-license.txt My question is whether someone would be willing to work on the GPL libraries (I personally know very little about the db+hibernate ones); or on cleaning up the verify-and-licenses (I don't think this is big enough to enter the violations into a wiki, but there's quite a few of them, so it will take some time to clean them up). (When verify-libs-and-licenses is clean, we need to look at DEPENDENCIES and fix any problems we spot, but I don't think it makes much sense to look at that when there are significant verify-libs-and-licenses failures.) Thanks, Jan
