I have to agree with Gili...

Sometimes it feels that nobody cares... I created a ticket a month ago
about an improvement in the NetBeans Git integration and decided to code it
myself.


Then I submitted a PR and eventually the reviewing process started. But the
reviewer has had many objections to my request (which is perfectly fine). I
told him that the Eclipse JGit library was OSGi based and that it had
external dependencies that were triggered during the bootstrapping of
NetBeans. I even contacted the Eclipse team to tell them that one of their
OSGi dependencies wasn't even used in their JGit library, the lead
developer realized that it was a mistake and he fixed it!


After that, I sent more questions and comments to the reviewer to
understand how I could resolve the remaining issues in an acceptable way,
but to no avail. The reviewer just stopped answering my questions! Now it's
been 25 days and nothing... So, I put a lot of time into this for what at
the end?


I don't think that this is how you're going to attract new developers to
contribute to this project...


Christian



On Fri, Apr 20, 2018 at 1:36 PM, cowwoc <[email protected]> wrote:

> I did. Multiple times.
>
> One of the issues I brought up was the copy/paste bug I linked to below.
> When I brought it up in the mailing list in the past I got no replies.
>
> That issue (and its linked counterparts) are very annoying (for obvious
> reasons). I suspect no one else is experiencing this problem because it
> seems too major to ignore.
>
> Gili
>
>
> On 2018-04-20 1:21 PM, Geertjan Wielenga wrote:
>
>> Rather than filing hundreds of issues, I recommend you pick one, just one,
>> and open a discussion thread around that. Once people have seen and
>> discussed your issue on the mailing list, probably one of those will
>> volunteer to tix it.
>>
>> Gj
>>
>> On Friday, April 20, 2018, cowwoc <[email protected]> wrote:
>>
>> This is precisely the kind of fixes I'm talking about. I understand that
>>> IntelliJ has many features that Netbeans does not, but I'm primarily
>>> focused on improving the *core* development functionality (this is
>>> because
>>> it impacts all other project types). We've got many of the pieces in
>>> place,
>>> but UI problems make that functionality annoying/slow to use.
>>> Specifically
>>> on the point of 4k monitors, I keep on saying that it is impossible to
>>> copy/paste correctly: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/NETBEANS-235
>>> (see linked issues as well)
>>>
>>> I have already filed thousands of issues before (literally), but those
>>> got
>>> flushed down the drain when we migrated to Apache. I've already filed
>>> some
>>> issues in Apache JIRA but for now there hasn't been much movement
>>> (committers are understandably working on their own issues before looking
>>> at other people's issues). Nothing personal against you guys but I don't
>>> have the time/energy to re-file all those bug reports. Family emergencies
>>> are keeping me super busy nowadays and frankly I don't see the point of
>>> doing all this work until I see some movement on the issues that I
>>> already
>>> filed.
>>>
>>> Gili
>>>
>>> On 2018-04-20 10:20 AM, John Leon wrote:
>>>
>>> I have been compiling a list myself of things I wanted to improve with
>>>> NetBeans as a relatively new user. I'll share them here, but I will also
>>>> keep an eye out for the Wiki page that Wade is going to make and try to
>>>> contribute there. Here are some of the examples I had in my list:
>>>>
>>>>      - The Wizard dialog is always too small and I have to resize the
>>>> window
>>>>      to read everything. I want to make it remember the size of the last
>>>> Wizard
>>>>      window. (This was going to be my first real plugin attempt)
>>>>      - The Project Groups menu item should have a sub-menu listing
>>>> project
>>>>      groups in addition to the existing dialog window. This would allow
>>>> someone
>>>>      to go File->Project Groups->My Project X directly, and only open
>>>> the
>>>>      "project group manager" window if you need to add/modify groups.
>>>> (Very
>>>>      minor convenience improvement)
>>>>      - Better 4k monitor support (right now requires fiddling with
>>>> dpiaware
>>>>      and font size, sometimes images are scaled and pixelated still)
>>>>      - Can't run Windows command prompt in the Terminal
>>>>      - Add more padding/borders to the Darcula L&F as it feels crowded
>>>> to
>>>> me
>>>>      - With some L&F Some status bar/tooltips
>>>>      - Right click a file/folder -> Open in Explorer (Think this is a
>>>>      optional 3rd party plugin only currently)
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> On Fri, Apr 20, 2018 at 7:49 AM, Christian Lenz <[email protected]
>>>> >
>>>> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> Some other People say that, better indexing with NB over IntelliJ but I
>>>>
>>>>> can say sometimes yes and sometimes not. I can say what I tested was
>>>>> the
>>>>> go
>>>>> to file and this is often clunky in NetBeans or the quick search is not
>>>>> that fast over intelliJ and and and. Open Options Needs some MS to open
>>>>> etc. So I can say that the Performance of IntelliJ is way better in
>>>>> different cases than in NetBeans. I will add some comparisions too.
>>>>>
>>>>> So NetBeans is my full enviroment for almost everything what NetBeans
>>>>> can
>>>>> handle for hopefully for more in the future and yes I can feel the
>>>>> indexing
>>>>> Problem too, what Wade mentioned. For Code completion, for go to
>>>>> whatever,
>>>>> searching etc.
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> Cheers
>>>>>
>>>>> Chris
>>>>>
>>>>> Von: Geertjan Wielenga
>>>>> Gesendet: Freitag, 20. April 2018 13:56
>>>>> An: [email protected]
>>>>> Betreff: Re: IntelliJ IDEA vs Netbeans
>>>>>
>>>>> Deklunkification on indexing and performance levels can be done with
>>>>> the
>>>>> code currently in Apache NetBeans Git. Jaroslav Tulach will have
>>>>> insights
>>>>> as well as gratitude for help in this area, while note that indexing
>>>>> and
>>>>> performance have subjective aspects, e.g., even in this thread there’s
>>>>> a
>>>>> preference expressed of NetBeans over IntelliJ in relation to
>>>>> performance.
>>>>>
>>>>> Gj
>>>>>
>>>>> On Friday, April 20, 2018, Wade Chandler <[email protected]>
>>>>> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>> On Fri, Apr 20, 2018, 04:49 Geertjan Wielenga <
>>>>>
>>>>>> [email protected]> wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Deklunkifyng NetBeans was never a big goal in Oracle though now, in
>>>>>> Apache,
>>>>>>
>>>>>> this really seems a doable target and one we can work on together.
>>>>>>> Many
>>>>>>> deklunkification tasks are probably quite trivial. How best to tackle
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> this
>>>>>>
>>>>>> and who will take the lead in beginning to list these? Any deklunking
>>>>>>> I
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> am
>>>>>>
>>>>>> able to implement I will implement, just provide a very specific list
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> and
>>>>>> we’ll form a NetBeans deklunking taskforce.
>>>>>>
>>>>>>> +1 this has been my goal with the move to Apache, and once we get
>>>>>>> more
>>>>>>>
>>>>>> of
>>>>>> the other bits over plan to try to tackle much of it. I love
>>>>>> "Deklunkification Taskforce"!
>>>>>>
>>>>>> My biggest item I plan to look at is the indexing which blocks some
>>>>>>
>>>>>> things,
>>>>>
>>>>> and impacts performance. It is really as far as I can tell the main
>>>>>> performance difference as it has impacts on the editor and other UI
>>>>>> actions.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> I much more prefer the integration of NB with the tools project
>>>>>> support
>>>>>> versus rolling our own. The classpath and build differences can really
>>>>>>
>>>>>> be a
>>>>>
>>>>> bear sometimes when having differences between the two, and builds or
>>>>>> executions work in one side, but not the other.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> So, I find this a strength of NB, as I have helped team members over
>>>>>> the
>>>>>> years with such issues in other environments.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> I will create a page in the Wiki later if nobody else has; right now I
>>>>>>
>>>>>> must
>>>>>
>>>>> get ready for CodeStock!
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Wade
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
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