We should also allow some new features and improvements. We cannot have NetBeans under Apache for 1 year and basically have no Apache-contributed feature to show for, only IP cleanup and stuff like that.
There's a whole lot of contributors and committers: does everybody want to do only this? Because I don't! BTW, how many are being involved in the new Apache build system or IP clearance, etc.? I don't see people jumping in on this rather boring job. So, I *am* doing IP cleanup, but I would most certainly want to commit new features and bugfixes! I found and fixed a few bugs just these weeks while working on yameter.com I don't remember agreeing on a feature freeze within Apache, we just got the codebase donated. The community should be able to walk and chew bubble gum at the same time. If some people are focusing on the build system I don't see why other people can't focus on something else as long as they don't break something or get in the way? The real question is: are we really distributing the load *and trust* among committers or not? Because it seems to me everybody is very willing to heavily restrict what we should be allowed to do. --emi On Tue, Sep 26, 2017 at 9:14 PM, Matthias Bläsing <mblaes...@doppel-helix.eu > wrote: > Hey, > > Am Dienstag, den 26.09.2017, 09:17 +0200 schrieb Geertjan Wielenga: > > [Discuss-Request: Focus on getting a release out or adding functions] > > if I'm not mistaken, the netbeans 9 feature freeze had already happened > when the migration to apache began. I would focus on bugfixing and > blocking new features. > > With the apache migration process there is enough development needed, > just to get the codebase releaseable. Libraries need to > removed/replaced, if the are incompatibe with the apache project > (SwingX is LGPL and so can't be distributed with apache netbeans) or > installers to get these libraries at runtime need to be implemented. > > While I agree, that adding new features would pull more potential > contributers, I would consider a stable base more important, to get > going from there. Java 9 is out and the excitement is already there and > people ask for netbeans 9, so I would prioritize that. > > My 2 cent > > Matthias > > >
