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Christian Lenz commented on NETBEANS-51: ---------------------------------------- [~PowerKiKi] [~rjgamer] good news, if you not following our mailing list, under Apache, we decided to have 4 releases a Year so it is now comparable with IntelliJ. Not with VS Code because they do it every month but they have a lot more contributors. > Major plugin release cycles should be independent from the core > --------------------------------------------------------------- > > Key: NETBEANS-51 > URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/NETBEANS-51 > Project: NetBeans > Issue Type: Wish > Reporter: Adrien Crivelli > Priority: Major > Labels: planning, release, roadmap, workflow > > NetBeans releases versions roughly every year. Unfortunately that means that > major plugins, such as the one for PHP support, does not get updated for 12 > months or more. So when a major PHP version is available (7.1), NetBeans > users still have to wait for several months before being able to benefit from > new features, despite the fact that the plugin was already updated (5 months > ago, and counting). > Of course we can use dev build in the meantime, but unfortunately those dev > builds are far from being stable. I regularly get Java exceptions and > everything seems to be slightly slower than a production release. > This lead to a lot of frustration for end-users, as can be [seen > there|https://netbeans.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=268317]. And I believe > this is not specific to PHP plugin, but must also happens for pretty much all > other language/frameworks that are not Java related. > The solution seems simple to me. Since NetBeans already is architectured with > plugins in mind and those are already auto-updated. We only have to allow > plugin author to release their plugins at their own pace. > In fact this is exactly how it is done for the plugin to add support for > TypeScript (https://github.com/Everlaw/nbts). Its release cycle is not tied > to NetBeans and it's working great. > So I am kinda wondering why does PHP need to be tied to NetBeans release ? > what are the advantage for end-users and/or developers ? > [~am...@kthree.co.jp], do you know whether it would be technically possible > to release PHP as a independent plugin more often ? > It seems to be a purely organisational issue. And if it could be fixed with > the move to Apache, that would be awesome. -- This message was sent by Atlassian JIRA (v7.6.3#76005) --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: commits-unsubscr...@netbeans.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: commits-h...@netbeans.apache.org For further information about the NetBeans mailing lists, visit: https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/NETBEANS/Mailing+lists