Hi all, The Apache NetBeans community has voted on and approved a proposal to release Apache NetBeans (incubating) 9.0 Alpha rc2.
We now kindly request that the Incubator PMC members review and vote on this incubator release candidate. Apache NetBeans (incubating) is an open source development environment, tooling platform, and application framework. Apache NetBeans (incubating) 9.0 Alpha constitutes the modules of Apache NetBeans (incubating) that provide the application framework of Apache NetBeans, that is, the Apache NetBeans Platform, which is used by a diverse range of organizations, some of which are listed here: https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/NETBEANS/on+top+of+NetBeans Apache NetBeans (incubating) 9.0 Alpha vote thread: https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/a2ee0c199a4f742b22249d7993233465e18bc8252a665af37f75728e@%3Cdev.netbeans.apache.org%3E Apache NetBeans (incubating) 9.0 Alpha vote result thread: https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/278b3bd85eaeec8718dee95f9b2b2c2c7656544fb5b504f6b8e2632c@%3Cdev.netbeans.apache.org%3E The source tarball, including signatures, digests, etc. can be found at: https://dist.apache.org/repos/dist/dev/incubator/netbeans/incubating-netbeans-platform/incubating-9.0-alpha/ The tag to be voted upon is 9.0-alpha-rc2: https://github.com/apache/incubator-netbeans/tree/9.0-alpha-rc2 The release hash is: 1189b293cecfd5236cf18df2c2bd0f6b414dab75 ...which is found at: https://dist.apache.org/repos/dist/dev/incubator/netbeans/incubating-netbeans-platform/incubating-9.0-alpha/incubating-netbeans-platform-9.0-alpha-source.zip.sha1 Release artifacts are signed with the following key: 753AD8D8DF507D7232A9BDBD9B403B9B1BFBCC23 KEYS file available: https://dist.apache.org/repos/dist/dev/incubator/netbeans/KEYS During the PPMC vote, some items were identified, though did not prevent +1 votes: https://github.com/apache/incubator-netbeans/pull/278 https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/NETBEANS-157 Please download the release candidate and evaluate the necessary items including checking hashes, signatures, build from source, run and test. Please vote on releasing this package as Apache NetBeans (incubating) 9.0 Alpha: The vote will be open for 72 hours. [ ] +1 Release this package as Apache NetBeans 9.0 (incubating) Alpha [ ] +0 no opinion [ ] -1 Do not release this package because ... Thanks, Geertjan on behalf of Apache NetBeans PPMC