Hi all, especially our mentors, When we donate netbeans.org and related properties to Apache, there's one area that's important to be aware of and hopefully find an answer to and that is the following URL:
updates.netbeans.org When everything becomes netbeans.apache.org, the above URL will need to stay the way it is, it cannot become 'updates.netbeans.apache.org'. The reason for that is that the above is hardcoded into NetBeans IDE. It points to the official NetBeans update center, where plugins are found. Although the URL is not hardcoded in the sense that it is in a Java source file, it is in a Properties file and can be changed in the Plugin Manager in NetBeans by any user. However, we don't believe the majority of people will apply such an update to NetBeans, therefore if the URL were to change under Apache, the majority of NetBeans users will still have " updates.netbeans.org" applied and will be not be able to receive updates. For example, what can happen, once in a while, is that security updates need to be applied to NetBeans, based on Oracle requirements and demands, on previous versions of NetBeans, i.e., from before the donation to Apache. Therefore, 'updates.netbeans.org' must stay 'updates.netbeans.org' and not change to 'updates.netbeans.apache.org'. Two possible solutions: 1. We donate all of netbeans.org to Apache, but Apache accepts that ' updates.netbeans.org' will not be changed to 'updated.netbeans.apache.org'. 2. We do not donate 'updates.netbeans.org' to Apache, i.e., we exclude it from the donation. Thoughts welcome. Thanks, Geertjan
