Sure, thanks. I think we're aware it doesn't have to be perfect the first time around, and it's good to have this reconfirmed.
The content of the video wasn't reviewed by our mentors, but I believe everything in there is basically a summary of mails and discussions, if something in there is incomplete or incorrect, that's good to know. Gj On Wed, Sep 27, 2017 at 1:57 PM, John D. Ament <johndam...@apache.org> wrote: > Geertjan, > > Did you review the content of this video with your mentors? There's one > extremely important thing I heard in this video. "During the incubation > process." The Incubation process does not end at your first release. It > ends when the community believes they have embraced the Apache Way well > enough. > > Basically what I'm trying to say is that your first release doesn't have > to be perfect, we expect every release performed by a podling to get > progressively better. Every incubator project must include a DISCLAIMER > file indicating that the project is under going incubation, which implies: > > - The community could disappear due to lack of ability to become an Apache > project. > - The release contents may have issues within them, so please use caution. > > It doesn't look like Netbeans has their disclaimer file yet, but here's an > example from Freemarker: https://github.com/apache/ > incubator-freemarker/blob/2.3-gae/DISCLAIMER > > John > > On 2017-09-26 09:21, Geertjan Wielenga <geertjan.wiele...@googlemail.com> > wrote: > > Hi all, > > > > Made a quick 3 minute YouTube clip to help explain what and why we're > > trying to achieve with this page: > > > > https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/NETBEANS/ > List+of+Modules+to+Review > > > > Hope it clarifies things -- i.e., no knowledge of NetBeans APIs or even > > Java is needed, for the basic reviewing tasks and everyone should feel > > invited to participate: > > > > https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z4PBNSRp5g8 > > > > Thanks, > > > > Gj > > >
