Thanks for the responses thus far, agree with them all. And, in the case of UML, take a look at this: https://blogs.oracle.com/geertjan/royal-netherlands-navy-on-netbeans
I agree that UML is worth keeping, though we need actual real people to be working on it (as opposed to 'someone'). Gj On Wed, Sep 11, 2019 at 11:03 AM Eric Barboni <sk...@apache.org> wrote: > Hi Geertjan, > > Nice to see progression in donation. > > I cannot remember if community-uml was the tools we were using for > teaching purpose. But if it was the one in this screen [1] I may try to > help if donated. > > Best Regards > Eric > > [1] https://netbeans.org/images_www/v6/5/screenshots/uml.png > > -----Message d'origine----- > De : Geertjan Wielenga <geert...@apache.org> > Envoyé : mercredi 11 septembre 2019 10:02 > À : dev <dev@netbeans.apache.org> > Objet : Current state of Oracle donation of NetBeans to Apache > > Hi all, > > Long-ish e-mail on current status, with helpful headers in between. > > *4th Donation* > > The 4th donation, focused primarily on C/C++ support has gone through > auditing and we're satisfied that what we're donating to Apache from Oracle > really is Oracle's to donate. The source code is now in a ZIP file at > Oracle Legal, after which documents need to be signed, and then the 4th > donation will be complete and the code handed over to Apache. > The o.n.swing.laf.dark mlodule is also included in the 4th donation. > > This will be done soon but not soon enough to be included in the 11.2 > release -- since aside from donating the code, there'll be quite some work > of relicensing everything to Apache and getting everything to work > correctly within Apache NetBeans. It looks to me like the 11.3 release, > scheduled for January[1] should be able to include the C/C++ features, > assuming the donation and integration is complete in that timeframe. > > *5th Donation* > > After that is the 5th donation, which will focus on the clusters > nb.cluster.dlight and nb.cluster.extra. The C/C++ modules have a build-time > dependency on nb.cluster.dlight so until the 5th donation is done, we'll > need to depend on a binary at build time of the relevant parts of that > cluster. Included in this donation will be the source code of the Jira > module, as requested on this mailing list. > > *Contrib Repository* > > In parallel, there's the question of the 'contrib' cluster. Some of the > modules in there were experimental plugins written by Oracle employees > while others are under the OCA (Oracle Contributor Agreement) by external > third party contributors. The latter should probably simply be able to > donate their modules to Apache NetBeans, without Oracle needing to be > involved in any way. However, we're getting Oracle Legal opinion on this, > just to be sure. And we probably don't want all of the contrib repository > anyway, some clear guidance from the community here would help. > > *And then...* > > After the above have been handled, the question is what to deal with next, > if anything. > > We have these listed for donation but the question is whether anyone is > waiting for these or actually going to be working on them: > > nb.cluster.javacard > nb.cluster.mobility > community-ruby > community-soa > community-uml > community-visualweb > > What is the level of interest in the above areas of NetBeans? If you're > going to write in response "we must really have this in Apache NetBeans" > will you also be the one driving that code forward, adding new features, > and fixing related bugs yourself? > > The transition page[2] has been updated to reflect the above. > > [1] https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/NETBEANS/Release+Schedule > [2] https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/NETBEANS/Apache+Transition > > Thanks, > > Gj > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@netbeans.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@netbeans.apache.org > > For further information about the NetBeans mailing lists, visit: > https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/NETBEANS/Mailing+lists > > > >
