Re: Preparing release 10.0, final steps

2018-12-24 Thread Laszlo Kishalmi
Well, it seems this convenience binary thing is kind of misfit in the current process. It is better to ask. I appreciate your concerns, and thank you for raising them! On 12/24/18 10:23 PM, Emilian Bold wrote: I dunno, nothing is clear with Apache. I've generally seen Apache sources and

[MENTORS] Convenience binary as Snap package

2018-12-24 Thread Laszlo Kishalmi
Dear Mentors, I'd like to make Apache NetBeans (incubating) available as a convenience binary for many Linux distributions through the form of a Snap package. About Snap packages: The creator and maintainer of the Snap infrastructure is Cannonical Ltd. the company behind Ubuntu. They are

Happy holidays everyone

2018-12-24 Thread Emilian Bold
And Merry Christmas! It's so nice that we finished the Apache NetBeans 10 voting by Christmas. Happy New Year to everyone! --emi - To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@netbeans.incubator.apache.org For additional commands,

Re: Preparing release 10.0, final steps

2018-12-24 Thread Emilian Bold
I dunno, nothing is clear with Apache. I've generally seen Apache sources and binaries together on the same download page. They were part of the same 'release' although in theory people vote only on the sources. So, I don't know what is means to publish a new "convenience binary" that was not

Re: Preparing release 10.0, final steps

2018-12-24 Thread Laszlo Kishalmi
Well, we may ask a mentor about that. Review on binary releases and voting on that is quite recent topic inside the ASF. https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/ceb357513ff0403414b5fff7dbeb1ea43961e71f9e48425d6e3cea8f@%3Cgeneral.incubator.apache.org%3E I do not think that we need to wait for

Re: Preparing release 10.0, final steps

2018-12-24 Thread Laszlo Kishalmi
The Snap binary is built on and uploaded automatically by Apache Infrastructure servers. The job is the following: https://builds.apache.org/job/incubator-netbeans-snap-packages/ Right now it is using the release100 branch, probably I can make it to take the source output of the release

Re: Preparing release 10.0, final steps

2018-12-24 Thread Geertjan Wielenga
Excellent progress and Laszlo’s list looks great, will make a Wiki listing these items for future releases. Gj On Monday, December 24, 2018, Emilian Bold wrote: > The steps sound good except the Snap convenience binary which I know is > your baby but I still don't understand what binaries are

Re: Preparing release 10.0, final steps

2018-12-24 Thread Emilian Bold
The steps sound good except the Snap convenience binary which I know is your baby but I still don't understand what binaries are there. The convenience binaries we distribute as Apache NetBeans are distributed by Apache infra and built by Apache servers and voted on. Not sure which of these is

Re: Preparing release 10.0, final steps

2018-12-24 Thread Antonio
> 5. Update the website, we have a PR-for that, which needs to be finalized. Hi Laszlo, For the web anouncement, I've updated the PPMC vote & results links, the git tags and the IPMC vote link. Release date is now 2018-12-27 in the web pages. A squash would be good enough to upload to the

Preparing release 10.0, final steps

2018-12-24 Thread Laszlo Kishalmi
Dear all, So far we are having the necessary 3 +1 votes on IPMC vote thread which shall be open for at least 4 hours from now. So if there would be no objection there we would be ready for the release. Please help me to collect the final parts, needs to be done around the release. Right

Re: Installer for NetBeans bundled with the JDK

2018-12-24 Thread Neil C Smith
On Mon, 24 Dec 2018, 10:18 Oliver Rettig Should'nt it be possible to create an installer with the nb-installer > infrastructure which can > download a JDK? > How are you going to run a Java-based installer to download a JDK if you don't have a JDK? Even in PraxisLIVE where I can and do bundle a

Re: Installer for NetBeans bundled with the JDK

2018-12-24 Thread Oliver Rettig
Hi Neil, why do you prefer non-java-based installers? Should'nt it be possible to create an installer with the nb-installer infrastructure which can download a JDK? For my nb platform apps I bundle a JDK. I think also others should be interested in creating installers with downloading the

Re: Groovy in Netbeans 10

2018-12-24 Thread Geertjan Wielenga
Can you join the mailing list, right now we keep needing to explicitly moderate your mails, i.e., if you were registered that would save time and mean that your mails would not need to be moderated: https://netbeans.apache.org/community/mailing-lists.html Secondly, there's nothing mysterious