Please add wording that users migrating to the users@ or dev@ list
should *subscribe* to those lists by sending an empty email to
users-subscr...@netbeans.apache.org or dev-subscr...@netbeans.apache.org
otherwise we (moderators) will get swamped...
Maybe also helpful to remark that you can anonymously browse the mail
archives via https://lists.apache.org/list.html?us...@netbeans.apache.org
and https://lists.apache.org/list.html?d...@netbeans.apache.org
All this typically is/should be documented already on the website, but
as we don't have any real (ASF) content yet at netbeans.apache.org new
users easily will get lost.
I think the website really needs to get priority attention, also because
otherwise there is no place to communicate and provide the download
links for the current HTML/Java API and upcoming platform releases...
Ate
On 2017-11-23 12:06, Geertjan Wielenga wrote:
Hi all,
We should, at some stage, put an end to the various netbeans.org mailing
lists, e.g., nbus...@netbeans.org and the dozen or so other netbeans.org
mailing lists and ensure that everyone asks questions about NetBeans on the
Apache NetBeans mailing lists instead. Jiri Kovalsky and I, who have
managed the NetBeans.org mailing lists over the years, propose we send the
following to ALL the netbeans.org mailing lists at the beginning of next
week.
Subject for the mail: “January 1st, 2018: End of @netbeans.org Mailing
Lists and Forum"
Text:
“If you’ve been following Oracle's Apache NetBeans donation process,
you’ll be aware that a large part of NetBeans is in Apache Git already. You
should also be aware that mailing lists are available at Apache for
purposes of discussing the development and usage of Apache NetBeans.
By means of this e-mail, we’re letting you know that as of January 1st,
2018, the @netbeans.org mailing lists will be deleted (they are archived
at netbeans.markmail.org), all references to @netbeans.org will, where
possible, be replaced with references to Apache NetBeans mailing lists, and
everyone will need to manually move to the Apache NetBeans @dev (
dev@netbeans.incubator.apache.org) and Apache NetBeans @user (
us...@netbeans.incubator.apache.org) mailing lists.
Anyone asking questions about the usage of NetBeans, whether for Java,
JavaScript, C/C++, or any other language or technology, as well as those
using the NetBeans APIs for developing modules and applications, will use
the Apache NetBeans @user mailing list. If and when it turns out that too
many developers of one category dominate the @user mailing list, a separate
Apache NetBeans mailing list will be created for them. The Apache NetBeans
@dev mailing list is specifically for those committed to working on the
development of Apache NetBeans itself, as well as those committed to
promoting and documenting it, via events and tutorials, etc.
Note that we will be discontinuing the web forums, i.e.,
forums.netbeans.org, and that in Apache there is no replacement for that
— Apache projects work with mailing lists only.
Hoping to see you all on the Apache NetBeans mailing lists, you’re
encouraged to move there as soon as possible and to not write to the @
netbeans.org mailing lists anymore.
Kind regards,
Geertjan & Jirka
Feedback/comments welcome. We'd like to send the above to all the @
netbeans.org mailing lists at the beginning of next week.
Thanks,
Gj and Jirka
