Hello First I apologize if this has been publicly discussed and posted elsewhere (in one of these lists even) and I have missed it. Regarding building and running releases of Netbeans post 8.X, is there some sort of standard for which JDK (of those available at the time) should it be possible to do either or both of these in for each new Netbeans version? In other words: is there some rule or "best practice" when consolidating what Netbeans N (N >= 9.0) will be, which JDKs it should, or must, be possible to build and run it in before the actual official release? Further, should there be, and would it be best to explicitly put that in the documentation for each release? I ask, really late if I'm being honest, because it seems like a logical extension of the settled debate about the new Netbeans release cycle and its distancing from the JDK release cycle itself or Oracle's new 3 year LTS model. I don't remember reading it anywhere after that topic was decided in the dev mailing list (again, might have missed it).
On a completely separate topic, currently there's a sale on HumbleBundle (the book bundle, Java by Packt) that includes a bunch of seemingly useful tools for learning and or getting up to speed on Java development. Would any of you consider this a worthwhile investment for someone who has used the language, and Netbeans, but not delved deep into it? I'd like to learn enough so that I can actually contribute to the Netbeans project, among others, in the future, instead of just ask random stuff on the mailing list. Thank you. Emilio G.C.
