Re: [VOTE] Release Apache NetBeans 9.0 Beta (incubating) rc1

2018-01-10 Thread Gili T.
Who gets to vote? What determines when the final release is made? My concern is that I've seen many regressions relative to 8.2 and very few new features (jdk9 support being the major feature that I am aware of). I want to ensure that the vast majority of regressions are fixed prior to a release.

Re: Users first (was Re: Pull requests need to be reviewed)

2018-01-13 Thread Gili T.
review, > > Gj > > On Sat, Jan 13, 2018 at 11:47 AM, Gili T. <cow...@bbs.darktech.org> wrote: > > I guess I'll be the odd man out: the bigger the project the more relevant > > cosmetic fixes are in my opinion. Why? Because in the 10+ years I've used > > NetBean, bu

Re: Users first (was Re: Pull requests need to be reviewed)

2018-01-13 Thread Gili T.
I guess I'll be the odd man out: the bigger the project the more relevant cosmetic fixes are in my opinion. Why? Because in the 10+ years I've used NetBean, bug fixes were more important to me than new features. Cosmetic fixes tend to reduce the bug count at the cost of new features and I'm

Re: Netbeans 9.0 is very unstable with lombok in JDK 9

2018-03-10 Thread Gili T.
Josh, Try JDK 9 specifically. The fact that they use bytecode injection makes their library very unstable. Gili On Sat, Mar 10, 2018, 11:59 Josh Juneau wrote: > I will chime in to mention that I utilize Lombok with NetBeans 8.2 and it > works most of the time. There are

Re: Usability study was: Think Java, not Electron! was: Apache HTML/Java UI

2018-03-17 Thread Gili T.
I humbly disagree. Last time I played with Swing layouts I remember them being able to do responsive UIs even better than HTML. The only thing that web does better is more existing layouts out of the box. That's just a matter of people not technology. Gili On Sat, Mar 17, 2018, 07:39