Re: [DISCUSS] future of master freeze?

2020-09-09 Thread Laszlo Kishalmi
Still it is hard to start work on features/fixes that depend on each other. My big hit for 12.2 should start with the exposed ProjectConnection interface of Gradle to modules. That would be a base for further development. Just got it merged. However I pulled of several other independent PR-s

RE: Status of converting icons to SVG

2020-09-09 Thread Eirik Bakke
There's also this thing (see email from Apache pasted below): https://www.outreachy.org/communities/cfp/apache/ https://www.outreachy.org/communities/cfp/ "Interns work remotely with mentors from Free and Open Source Software (FOSS) communities on projects ranging from programming, user

Re: [VOTE] Release Apache NetBeans-12.1 Mac OSX Installer - vote 2

2020-09-09 Thread David Green
On 8 Sep 2020, at 0:16, John Mc wrote: > We can vote for Apache NetBeans 12.0 Mac OSX installer, again. I've > addressed the previous issue that users reported when attempting to install > Apache NetBeans. 12.1 Mac OSX installer +1 Used GPG to check signature Installed nb-java, import 12.0

Status of converting icons to SVG

2020-09-09 Thread Glenn Holmer
On 9/9/20 2:02 PM, Matthias Bläsing wrote: I still fail to see the difference between repetetive work on the code base working on source code and repetetive work on graphics. I worked for a company where the graphics designers were the only ones using mac OS systems. So did I: I won't repeat

Re: JDK version required for building NetBeans

2020-09-09 Thread Matthias Bläsing
Hi Geertjan, I'm not sure what you are asking. As long as we want to support running on JDK8, building it with JDK 8 is a hard requirement. The JDK 9+ changed classes. These changes follow the normal java requirements - they are backwards compatible. In this case it means, code thas was build on

Re: [DISCUSS] future of master freeze?

2020-09-09 Thread Matthias Bläsing
Hi, Am Mittwoch, den 09.09.2020, 20:22 +0100 schrieb Neil C Smith: > On Wed, 9 Sep 2020, 19:43 Jaroslav Tulach, > wrote: > > > Have you seen the recent Geertjan's report on health of the community? > > Activity drops. Why? I can only speak for myself: because during the > > freeze > > there is

Re: Status of converting icons to SVG

2020-09-09 Thread Neil C Smith
On Wed, 9 Sep 2020, 20:02 Matthias Bläsing, wrote: > I will pull out of this discussion - I said what I had to say and it > would be great if other people say what they think. > Well, I said it in the other thread, but in general I agree with your post here. There are a few groups promoting

Re: [DISCUSS] future of master freeze?

2020-09-09 Thread Neil C Smith
On Wed, 9 Sep 2020, 19:43 Jaroslav Tulach, wrote: > Have you seen the recent Geertjan's report on health of the community? > Activity drops. Why? I can only speak for myself: because during the > freeze > there is no place for new development! > But why?! Plan was to feature freeze master, not

Re: Status of converting icons to SVG

2020-09-09 Thread Matthias Bläsing
Hi, I still fail to see the difference between repetetive work on the code base working on source code and repetetive work on graphics. I worked for a company where the graphics designers were the only ones using mac OS systems. Reasoning was, that their work could only be done on these

Re: [DISCUSS] future of master freeze?

2020-09-09 Thread Jaroslav Tulach
> Freeze times: 11.2, 11.3, 12.0, and 12.1 are 40, 36, 85, and 51 days > that's 212 days in a year. That's a lot. Have you seen the recent Geertjan's report on health of the community? Activity drops. Why? I can only speak for myself: because during the freeze there is no place for new

Deadlock Fix Re: NETBEANS-4696

2020-09-09 Thread Ernie Rael
On 8/30/2020 5:20 PM, Glenn Holmer wrote: On 8/30/20 10:28 AM, Glenn Holmer wrote: After casting my vote for 12.1 vc1, I encountered 4696 again (on vc1). I added another thread dump: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/NETBEANS-4696 Turns out both threads involved in the deadlock were

Re: Side discussion: Style guide for SVG icons

2020-09-09 Thread Neil C Smith
On Tue, 8 Sep 2020 at 21:22, Eirik Bakke wrote: > Regardless of how we end up doing the conversion of bitmap icons to SVG, it > would be useful to reach a consensus on the graphical style to use. I like your style there, *but* I'm not sure reaching consensus on the graphical style before

Re: Side discussion: Style guide for SVG icons

2020-09-09 Thread John Mc
Hi Eirik, I like your style with the icons, I think it's very clean and crisp. I'm not in a position to help, I'd struggle to draw a box ;) But if we went the crowd funding approach I'd have no issues helping with a donation, if that's how we went to collect funds for this. Regards John On

RE: Installer move and website update

2020-09-09 Thread Eric Barboni
I'm not aware of such a cli like tools (we have no maven project in this phase). I populate RELEASE120 with inconsistent cluster pom dependencies. Only at build time of an application (for fun) involving 1 of the 2 bad constructed pom. So I had to go for RELEASE120-1. Best Regards Eric

Re: [DISCUSS] future of master freeze?

2020-09-09 Thread Neil C Smith
On Wed, 9 Sep 2020 at 01:46, Laszlo Kishalmi wrote: > Freeze times: 11.2, 11.3, 12.0, and 12.1 are 40, 36, 85, and 51 days > that's 212 days in a year. That's a lot. > > So while the idea cutting the release branch out of master on the > expense of have a small freeze, however nice, elegant and

Re: [VOTE] Release Apache NetBeans-12.1 Mac OSX Installer - vote 2

2020-09-09 Thread Luff,Chris
+1 Product Version: Apache NetBeans IDE 12.1 Java: 14.0.2; OpenJDK 64-Bit Server VM 14.0.2+12 Runtime: OpenJDK Runtime Environment 14.0.2+12 System: Mac OS X version 10.15.6 running on x86_64; UTF-8; en_GB (nb) Chris Luff | Associate Principal Engineer | UK Development - Care Insight and