> What are those small things? Providing a list of those small things, for > others to implement, is precisely the very significant role that you can > play in this project.
Hi there, fellow Java developer here. The thing is, as others have pointed out, Netbeans is quite behind other major IDEs and the list of the small things would be really huge. Also, you already have a list. A bug list. And a big one. Do you think those hundreds of bugs are not relevant anymore because they are old? Absolutely not. If you'd like to know about some specific issues I'm dealing with: * Maven integration is bad. Compared to competition it is slow, the periodic indexing is painful. The dependency graph generator is unusable on large projects. * JavaFX support is almost non-existent. * The Java refactorings lack many of the features intellij has. * Some lesser known languages do not have any plugin/support. (Yang anyone?) * When an external changes happen to a larger codebase, NB takes up to a minute or two to cope with it and reopen everything or whatever it does. * Those little mising features everyone speaks about are everywhere from lacking colors in maven terminal output to javadoc popups not parsing html. I use Netbeans at work for regular development. The amount of exceptions I receive from the IDE varies from 3 - 12 every day. There's a plethora of visual glitches and errors. Sometimes it even likes to crash. Is the exception reporter tool still being used by the devs? Or should everything be reported via a ticket manually. > Instead, start a new mail thread with a specific missing feature, something > small -- and let's discuss that feature via a mail thread, first. Then, at > some point in the discussion, someone will say, let's create an issue > around this feature, now that we've discussed it, and someone else will > say, hey I think I know how to fix that, let me try and then I'll send a > pull request for others to review. I really do not think a mail thread for each little change is a good idea. Just because of the sheer amount of bugs and features. Martin
