Hi all, If Azul were to distribute a bundle of NetBeans with Zulu, i.e., the bundle would be downloadable from an Azul domain, would we as a community be interested in doing the work of putting that bundle together?
It would be a process that would take place once a year, with our NetBeans LTS together with whatever the current LTS of Zulu is at that time. We in the NetBeans community would create and test the bundle, and would approve it as a community — sometime after the NetCAT process since the binaries would need to exist for the bundle to be created, so maybe simply by approving the bundle in a thread, not as an official vote thread since the bundle would not be an Apache release, of course. Potentially, Azul could create a plugin for updating Zulu after it’s been installed — and put that plugin into our Plugin Portal. This would solve our problem of not having a JDK vendor that provides the complete NetBeans out of the box experience. The bundle would be called “Apache NetBeans Zulu Bundle” and we’d point to it from our download page, with statements that it is not an Apache release, etc. With my three hats “Apache”, “NetBeans”, “Azul” on at the same time, this sounds good. Thoughts on this? Thanks, Gj
