I think if Azul is asking for some labor from the community here, some sort of contribution of value that supports the community might be a nice idea.
Like, say, hosting update center mirrors or, given that mirror-based updates seem to be proving problematic for some people on corporate networks, a formal update server that could be used in their place for those users, would be good. Show that it's a two-way street. Seems like there are a number of areas when it comes to web infrastructure where Apache is rather limited, where a company with global reach like Azul could significantly contribute, and the cost of it would be the size of a rounding error in their budget. If you want to get, give. -Tim On Sat, Jun 27, 2020 at 2:33 AM Geertjan Wielenga <geert...@apache.org> wrote: > 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 > -- http://timboudreau.com
