Well,
1. I think we are having it right now, thanks to Neil and Eric, so far
quarterly releases seems to be just fine, especially support wise. We
still need to recommend a lot of users to upgrade from NetBeans 10 or
11.1 to 11 or 11.2 (or this time 11.3). Unless we are able to deliver
something like a rolling release (like a release which is connect to a
regularly refreshed update center), more releases would mean more
confusion to the users. Though even with a rolling release, it can't
really be called as a release as we have work to do beside of just
building the code. On the other hand we have such a builds, though not
for wide audience, but netbeans-dev Snap package is refreshed on every
Thursday (at least), though it has 10-15 people using that one including
myself.
2. and 3. LTS and NetCat they are hand-in-hand together. Broader
testcase based QA is a real asset, if Apache NetBeans were a company
product and I'd be a CTO there, I'd definitely would invest more on that
side. LTS have a value especially for corporate users/education, who are
focused on work or study, and can be disrupted with every little changes
we make.
So if you would like to move faster and be more up to date on the IDE,
daily builds are there or if you are lucky to run Linux just use the
netbeans-dev Snap package for the convenience.
On 2/27/20 8:08 AM, Neil C Smith wrote:
On Thu, 27 Feb 2020 at 15:58, Qingtian Wang <qingt...@evergreenelite.com> wrote:
1. Frequent and time-based releases directly from master branch is the way to go! If a
feature doesn't fit the release, code "feature toggles" and shoot for the next
release.
+1
2. Forget LTS releases - A release is a release is a release. If this release
is not to your liking, download the previous one you like, or better yet
contribute the change you like to the next release.
-1
3. Forget NetCAT - every developer herself and every end user is responsible
and contributing for testing and quality.
-1, but +1 to the second bit - which is exactly why you should get
involved in NetCAT! ;-)
Apologies for any nerve touching!
Best wishes,
Neil
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