Hello everyone,

I hope this approach is given some consideration.  I have a number of projects 
that worked until (including) 8.0.2, but stopped working under 8.1.  Two don't 
even compile in 8.2.  I hope to eventually find the time to get them working 
under the Apache release, but until some spare cycles materialize it would be 
nice to have a repo somewhere other than the copies I keep squirreled away.

Thanks,
Peter

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From: Neil C Smith <[email protected]>
Sent: Thursday, July 26, 2018 11:48 AM
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: What will happen to NB 8.x (and earlier)?

On Wed, 11 Jul 2018 at 18:24, Neil C Smith <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> On Wed, 11 Jul 2018 at 18:19, Geertjan Wielenga
> <[email protected]> wrote:
> > From another perspective, 8.2 and earlier are all Oracle products, licensed
> > to Oracle, so that's up to Oracle to decide.
>
> But still open-source under CDDL / GPL!  There are mirrors around,
> including Emi's conversion to git
> (https://github.com/emilianbold/netbeans-releases), and we as a
[https://avatars2.githubusercontent.com/u/991554?s=400&v=4]<https://github.com/emilianbold/netbeans-releases>

GitHub - emilianbold/netbeans-releases: Git conversion of 
...<https://github.com/emilianbold/netbeans-releases>
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> NetBeans community should ensure they continue to exist, whether or
> not Oracle keeps hosting the hg repository themselves, albeit outside
> of Apache officially of course.

hmm ... noticed an interesting thread on infra@ that might be relevant to this -

On Thu, 26 Jul 2018 at 17:59, Roman Shaposhnik <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> On Thu, Jul 26, 2018 at 9:34 AM, sebb <[email protected]> wrote:
> > What is the policy on download pages that wish to link to artifacts
> > that are not official Apache releases?
>
> Note that there's a subtlety here: there may be official releases of
> the project done prior to it becoming Apache. I think we need
> to distinguish between this and what you seem to have in mind.
>
> > My view is that only official release artifacts produced at the ASF
> > can be published on the download page.
>
> We have a history of prior official releases being allowed.
>

So, does that mean we could host the archived older versions under
their original copyright and licenses here rather than "elsewhere"?

Best wishes,

Neil

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