Yes, I think this is outside the scope of this discussion. The WHY is defined clearly: netbeans.org/community/apache-incubator.html
Feel free to drop me a mail off-thread about this. Gj On Thu, Sep 15, 2016 at 5:07 PM, Mitch Claborn <mitch...@claborn.net> wrote: > I'm very new in this type of thing. I have zero experience with ASF, etc, > so if this is out of line, please forgive and I'll keep silent. > > I've seen a lot of discussion about the HOW in terms of moving NetBeans to > the Apache project, but not much/any discussion about WHY. I'm not a > NetBeans coder/contributor, but simply someone who uses it 8+ hours per day > in my normal job. > > My main question is: will moving NetBeans to Apache result in a better > product for people like me? If so, what particular aspects of moving will > make that happen? Are there other projects that have made a similar move > and experienced higher quality as a result? > > > Mitch > > > On 09/15/2016 07:15 AM, Bertrand Delacretaz wrote: > >> Hi Incubator PMC, >> >> On Tue, Sep 13, 2016 at 9:40 AM, Geertjan Wielenga >> <geertjan.wiele...@googlemail.com> wrote: >> >>> ... https://wiki.apache.org/incubator/NetBeansProposal ... >>> >> >> At this point I ask anyone with concerns or questions that haven't >> been addressed so far and would prevent us from voting on this >> proposal to chime in. >> >> Based on the discussions in this thread we have added Mark Struberg >> and Jim Jagielski to the proposal as mentors. Daniel Gruno mentioned >> the need for someone from ASF infra as a mentor, if needed it's easy >> to add a mentor later, or Daniel just confirm if you want to join. >> Emmanuel Lécharny was unsure and hasn't confirmed AFAICS, he can also >> be removed from the list later on easily if he wants to leave, that's >> no big deal. >> >> I have changed the SIR03 special infrastructure requirement (migration >> of plugins.netbeans.org) to exclude it from the incubation process as >> discussed here - we have envisioned possible solutions and realized >> that incubating NetBeans is not necessarily dependent on that, and I >> think the project can address this in due time. >> >> Are there other things to discuss that might affect our vote on >> accepting NetBeans? >> >> I'm planning to start the vote in about 24 hours unless things still >> need to be discussed. >> >> -Bertrand >> >> --------------------------------------------------------------------- >> To unsubscribe, e-mail: general-unsubscr...@incubator.apache.org >> For additional commands, e-mail: general-h...@incubator.apache.org >> >> >> > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: general-unsubscr...@incubator.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: general-h...@incubator.apache.org > >
