Great job, as always, Laszlo!  

Josh Juneau
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> On Apr 5, 2019, at 6:22 AM, Laszlo Kishalmi <laszlo.kisha...@gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> Dear all,
> 
> I would like to thank you to be able to be the Release Manager of Apache 
> NetBeans 11.0!
> 
> Thank you all, who contributed in this release either by code, documentation, 
> advice, or shared opinion!
> 
> This cycle started a bit sleepy, either due to the new year's duties or due 
> to the exhaustion from over-carrying the 10.0 release. After we were over the 
> shock everything started to shape up nicely by end of February.
> 
> As a release manager I found it a good practice not to do a release to 
> staging for every vote candidate we made and we could use the artifacts from 
> Jenkins directly. I still hope that it did not cause any trouble for the 
> Apache Infrastructure. I'd keep that for the future releases as well.
> 
> I'm still not fond of the vote candidate name. The release actually matured 
> nicely vc1 - alpha, vc2 - beta 1, vc3- beta 2 and vc4 is an rc1 quality. If I 
> were not traveling through the world just at the end of our cycle, I would 
> have cut a vc5 as well to address the minor non-technical concerns were found 
> out during the voting cycle.
> 
> Some Numbers:
> 
> In this release we were resolving ~64 issues. 38 bugs, 13 improvement, 13 
> tasks
> 
> The release process right now consists of ~30 steps (two steps more than 
> 10.0), about the half of these steps requires changes in the release branch. 
> This sets our limit to about four releases in a year, which is not bad, but 
> we have that limit.
> 
> I hope, I was documenting our work well enough, to make the job of the next 
> Release Manager easier.
> 
> This was a though, but wonderful journey! Thank you everyone for their work 
> and support!
> 
> Laszlo Kishalmi
> 
> Volunteer Release Manager of Apache NetBeans 11.0
> 
> P.S.: Constructive feedback on the process and on my work are , as always, 
> welcome!
> 
> 
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