Knowing how many people worked on NetBeans in Oracle (not very many and never continuously), I can state explicitly that there are more people working on NetBeans right now in Apache than there were in Oracle.
It’s never really about the number of people involved but about their depth of knowledge and level of enthusiasm. Fortunately, we’ve been educating our community from the very beginning about NetBeans internals — there’s an excellent book about it on leanpub.com, there’s a large investment in NetBeans API usage in mission critical projects around the world, etc etc etc. So, yes, once the boring IP clearance bits are behind us, I don’t see why we as Apache NetBeans won’t be far more productive and relevant than we have ever been. Gj On Friday, February 16, 2018, Bertrand Delacretaz <[email protected]> wrote: > On Fri, Feb 16, 2018 at 9:59 AM, Peter Steele <[email protected]> > wrote: > > ...if you want to make netbeans a success you > > need to have the same product as version 8.2 as a baseline to start > with... > > This is Open Source, with no bosses and no budget other than whatever > people voluntarily contribute to this project. > > And donations to the ASF to keep infrastructure and common services > running, but that doesn't pay for software development. > > From a product management perspective I would agree with you, and > hopefully Antonio is right about contributions going up again once the > current (mostly boring) phase is over. > > But if that doesn't happen, reducing scope is IMO better than letting > larger things rot. > > Just my 2 cents anyway (as a somewhat experienced Apache guy), there's > no urgency to change anything at the moment. > > -Bertrand > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] > For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected] > > For further information about the NetBeans mailing lists, visit: > https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/NETBEANS/Mailing+lists > > > >
