There is always the benefit of the open development...if there is a feature or capability needed, raise an issue in JIRA and interest willing...someone will implement it.
There is the release schedule to consider which may help some as wel https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/NETBEANS/Release+Schedule Get Outlook for iOS<https://aka.ms/o0ukef> ________________________________ From: Laszlo Kishalmi <laszlo.kisha...@gmail.com> Sent: Saturday, November 28, 2020 3:37:50 PM To: dev@netbeans.apache.org <dev@netbeans.apache.org> Subject: Re: Question about development direction. That's really true. There is no real strategic vision, roadmap that we strictly need to follow. That can be considered as good and bad. Good in a way that NetBeans really evolves freely, and might feel bad as the our efforts are divided. But I think that's natural as for most of us what we contribute is from our free time which vary over the time. What I see here is a group of people who like NetBeans, have ideas that they able to form into code, if not code then into bug reports, test cases documentation, do some management stuff, etc. Also it is good to see, that every now and then, these people gather around features, they find important, and pull into that direction. On 11/27/20 9:19 PM, Geertjan Wielenga wrote: > That depends on you now. In which direction do you want to go? > > Gj > > On Sat, 28 Nov 2020 at 00:28, Cloeren Jackson <badassmo...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> What I mean is up until about 8.2 it was managed by Sun microsystems. It >> isn't any more. I want to know if the direction it goes in will be the >> same? >> >> On 2020/11/15 17:08:09, Geertjan Wielenga >> <geertjan.wiele...@googlemail.com.INVALID> wrote: >>> New owners? What do you mean? >>> >>> Gj >>> >>> On Sun, 15 Nov 2020 at 17:23, Craig Manthorpe >>> <imababoonaph...@googlemail.com.invalid> wrote: >>> >>>> I was a NetBeans devotee up until version 8.2, after which, well, you >> know >>>> what happened. >>>> >>>> I chose that platform over all the other possible choices because it >>>> appeared to be designed and written by people who very clearly >> understood >>>> the interests of a certain type of developer. As well as being able to >> use >>>> it write Java code it can just as easily turn to GCC and LLVM >> compilers and >>>> it could be used just as well to write HTML/CSS/Javascript. As well as >> that >>>> it is compatible with Fortran compilers and I can, and have, written >> and >>>> compiled Fortran code from within NetBeans 8.2. >>>> >>>> It is also a platform in its own right and, although it seemed to pass >>>> people by, there were many very interesting and elaborate software >> programs >>>> written for the NetBeans platform, many of which took it far from its >>>> familiar face as an IDE. It could be used as a platform to develop >> software >>>> not only within NetBeans but also on top of the NetBeans platform. Be >> it >>>> IDEs, web browsers, or other kinds of software. >>>> >>>> Since changing hands my main concern is its new owners will have a >>>> completely new set of ideas about where to take it and what aspects to >>>> develop and which to jettison. My concern is, it may lose much of its >> prior >>>> uniqueness and its fine tuning along a vertical stack of use-cases >> taking >>>> in website design, Java, C++, Fortran and platform design. As it was >> it's >>>> possible to develop either a website or a supercomputing application >> using >>>> a computational physics library. >>>> >>>> How do its new developers envisage its new direction? What do you >> intend >>>> to support, what do you intend to improve, and what, if anything do you >>>> plan to drop? >>>> >>>> Thanks. >>>> >>>> --------------------------------------------------------------------- >>>> 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 >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> >> --------------------------------------------------------------------- >> 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 >> >> >> >> --------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
