Hi there, I'm Thomas.
After on and off working with Netbeans since it was called Forte or SunOne, I finally convinced my self to try a bit of contribution.
So I started to rummaging through the Jira issues, took the liberty to close some obvious SPAM issues as 'Invalid', (Btw: is this the way it should be done? I was rather surprised, that I'm allowed to close issues in the first place!) found a common reason to 6 of the issues (https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/NETBEANS-6349), added comments to others that I hope are of some help, and also added some Issues of my own.
Now, in two cases, NETBEANS-4595 <https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/NETBEANS-4595> and NETBEANS-6345 <https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/NETBEANS-6345>, I had the impression, that people struggle with how to properly cope with developing with several JDKs, and how this might impact the integration of build tools (i. e. maven, ant, gradle)
So I would like to do a piece, that does give some instructions and advice for that.
But on top of not yet having editing rights to https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/NETBEANS (the wiki states, I should ask here for permission), I'm not sure, whether this would be the right place for it, as it seems to be geared to developing Netbeans, rather than using.
So I'm just asking, to be put into the right starting position, to help out with documentation.
I might be able to help out with fixing bugs later on; but I would need to feel about my way in NBs code and process some time, before I'm ready for that.
As for NETBEANS-4595 <https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/NETBEANS-4595> and NETBEANS-6345 <https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/NETBEANS-6345>, I personally would have deemed them as 'Not a Bug', at best they could be turned into a 'Request for enhancement', but even this is in doubt, as Netbeans obviously *has* a way to deal with that - its just different from what the users expected. In a commercial driven support organization, these usually get rudely closed as 'Won't fix'. What is the accepted policy here in cases like this?
(This might still be another thing, that should get documented somewhere) Regards, Thomas --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected] For further information about the NetBeans mailing lists, visit: https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/NETBEANS/Mailing+lists
