> -----Original Message----- > From: Dennis E. Hamilton [mailto:dennis.hamil...@acm.org] > Sent: Monday, September 19, 2016 13:05 > To: general@incubator.apache.org > Subject: RE: [DISCUSS] Apache NetBeans Incubator Proposal > > There is a big difference between Apache OpenOffice and NetBeans. > NetBeans, even with the NetBeans Platform, is a developer-facing > project. I presume that the cycle of learning and improvement out > through the adopters and community for NetBeans is operating > successfully and will thrive at Apache. The "eating-your-own-dogfood" > principle seems to be well in hand [;<). > > There does need to be attention to infrastructure requirements. > > The initial committer list for Apache OpenOffice to enter incubation was > entirely and publicly self-selected. That means it includes, to this > day, individuals who do not commit to the code but contribute, when > still active, in other ways. There are acute divisions between those > who cannot and will not build the code, those who manage to build and > run the code, and those who can do anything significant with the code > and test their results. That division is a tremendous challenge in the > sustainability of Apache OpenOffice. [orcmid]
I should be clear that the acute division is with respect to capacity and capabilities and also will. I did not mean divison as some sort of dispute. > > Although the size of OpenOffice is daunting, that in itself is not a > challenge to the ASF infrastructure. The files in the Apache OpenOffice > 4.1.2 source release consist of > > 1.43 GB (1,541,226,333 bytes) of text in > 60,955 files, in > 6,429 folders. > > - Dennis > [ ... ] --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: general-unsubscr...@incubator.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: general-h...@incubator.apache.org
