+1 On Sat, Jun 27, 2020 at 2:58 PM Tim Boudreau <niftin...@gmail.com> wrote:
> 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 > -- Zoran Sevarac, PhD, Associate Professor University of Belgrade, Faculty of Organisational Sciences, Department for Software Engineering Java Champion <https://community.oracle.com/community/java/java-champions> | Oracle Groundbreaker Ambassador | Deep Netts <http://www.deepnetts.com> Co-founder & CEO
