Re: Volunteer

2021-03-17 Thread Bertrand Delacretaz
Hi, On Wed, Mar 17, 2021 at 5:08 AM Brad Walker wrote: ... > 3 - create your bug report in Jira > 4 - implement your change/feature ... FWIW, some projects label existing jira tickets as "low-hanging fruit" or "good first issue". I think that's a good way for volunteers to get started and it he

Re: Heads-up: netbeans.org EOL on March 6th

2021-02-25 Thread Bertrand Delacretaz
Hi, On Tue, Feb 23, 2021 at 3:26 PM Jiří Kovalský wrote: > ...Long live to https://netbeans.apache.org domain! :) ... FWIW, it might be good to create a "what happened to netbeans.org" page or FAQ entry on http://netbeans.apache.org/ I bet that would save many explanations in the future, by poi

Re: Speed of Maven build was: Status of Ant vs Maven

2020-08-24 Thread Bertrand Delacretaz
On Sun, Aug 23, 2020 at 9:06 AM Jaroslav Tulach wrote: > ...If the > Maven startup is the biggest problem for you guys, we shall investigate how to > turn Tomáš's work on... And it's Apache Maven, over the corner at https://maven.apache.org/ so I suppose that community would be happy to get such

Congratulations to Geertjan and Neil, new ASF Members!

2020-04-30 Thread Bertrand Delacretaz
Hi, I'm pleased to announce that two NetBeans PMC members, Geertjan Wielenga and Neil C Smith have recently been elected as Members of the Apache Software Foundation. Congratulations and that's well deserved, thank you for all your work helping our communities! See https://blogs.apache.org/foun

Re: Dedication message for NetBeans 12

2020-04-04 Thread Bertrand Delacretaz
Hi, On Fri, Apr 3, 2020 at 1:54 PM Sven Reimers wrote: > ...I would suggest to put in a dedication "in memoriam Carl Quinn" for the > 12.0 Apache NetBeans release... what do you think?.. +1, great idea! -Bertrand - To unsubscr

Re: NetBeans language bundle

2020-01-21 Thread Bertrand Delacretaz
Hi, On Thu, Sep 19, 2019 at 6:34 PM Boris Heithecker wrote: > ...I think all the community translations are now in the 3rd donation zip ( > http://bits.netbeans.org/download/apache-donation/ApacheNetBeansDonation3. > zip ). So they have been donated, but they can't be publish within the > Apache

Re: NetBeans language bundle

2020-01-20 Thread Bertrand Delacretaz
Hi, On Tue, Jan 21, 2020 at 8:19 AM Boris Heithecker wrote: > ...Does anybody know if it would be okay to reuse the donated files in a > privately maintained repository?.. No, anything that's part of an Apache project must be managed on public ASF repositories. OTOH it's fine for NetBeans to ha

Re: Convenience binary policy?

2019-07-26 Thread Bertrand Delacretaz
Hi, On Thu, Jul 25, 2019 at 12:32 PM Neil C Smith wrote: > > On Thu, 25 Jul 2019 at 09:44, Bertrand Delacretaz > wrote: > > That's basically what a [LAZY] consensus vote is, as per > > https://www.apache.org/foundation/voting.html#LazyConsensus > > Out of int

Re: Convenience binary policy?

2019-07-25 Thread Bertrand Delacretaz
On Tue, Jul 23, 2019 at 4:54 PM Geertjan Wielenga wrote: > ...Maybe we can have an 'active consensus' concept, i.e., no one explicitly > needs to respond to the thread, but it would be nice if some (especially > PMC members did), within a 72 hour period, and if no one objects, with a > few having

Re: Users banned from apache.org due to downloading updates.xml.gz

2019-05-20 Thread Bertrand Delacretaz
On Sat, May 18, 2019 at 6:50 PM Tim Boudreau wrote: > ...This kind of thing is truly a job for a CDN... It looks like ASF Infra is starting to use CDNs like https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/INFRA-18180 for example. That's certainly something to take into account when talking to them...but s

Re: When is an iCLA needed?

2019-05-16 Thread Bertrand Delacretaz
Hi, On Thu, May 16, 2019 at 3:47 PM Christian Lenz wrote: > When I talk to colleagues about NetBeans contribution they say: „But I’m not > a Apache comitter.“ > And some of them don’t want to sign such a „contract“. And I say: „You don’t > need to be one, > just fork it, make a PR and that’s ge

When is an iCLA needed?

2019-05-16 Thread Bertrand Delacretaz
Hi, Someone asked about this - in brief, from the ASF's point of view an iCLA [1] is only required for committers, once they get elected. See also [2] and [3]. Apart from that I fully agree with this quote from Sam Ruby from [4]: > ...CLAs are encouraged for all significant contributions, where

Re: Users banned from apache.org due to downloading updates.xml.gz

2019-05-15 Thread Bertrand Delacretaz
On Wed, May 15, 2019 at 10:19 AM Neil C Smith wrote: > ...use absolute rather than relative URLs in the catalog.xml and point > directly to closer.lua?... I suppose that might trigger bans as described in my original post here. I think this really needs to be coordinated with ASF infra, a ticket

Re: Users banned from apache.org due to downloading updates.xml.gz

2019-05-14 Thread Bertrand Delacretaz
On Tue, May 14, 2019 at 4:27 PM Neil C Smith wrote: > ...I've had to switch from the URL in the IDE > directly to the VM to get this process to complete without an error > (eg. > https://github.com/praxis-live/praxis-live/blob/nb11/nbproject/platform.properties#L337 > ... I'm not sure if http:/

Users banned from apache.org due to downloading updates.xml.gz

2019-05-14 Thread Bertrand Delacretaz
Hi, I think something similar happened a few weeks ago already, see here: https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/97f0619de82a630b6ec7d56f1ac5ab34dd85939ae1ff8dcf01434ee9@%3Cusers.infra.apache.org%3E NetBeans users going through a company router have been banned from *.apache.org due to too many re

Re: "incubating" on Downloads page

2019-04-30 Thread Bertrand Delacretaz
Hi, On Tue, Apr 30, 2019 at 2:41 PM Geertjan Wielenga wrote: > ...Is there anything blocking us from removing 'incubating' everywhere on this > page: > https://netbeans.apache.org/download/nb110/nb110.html .. Releases which were made during incubation need to keep the "incubating" qualifier but

Re: [MENTORS] https://dist.apache.org/repo setup

2019-04-29 Thread Bertrand Delacretaz
On Mon, Apr 29, 2019 at 12:35 PM Eric Barboni wrote: > ... Is it ok to copy the KEYS file from the incubator part ?... Yes, it's good to keep all keys around in there, which have been used for earlier releases. -Bertrand - To u

Re: [MENTORS] https://dist.apache.org/repo setup

2019-04-29 Thread Bertrand Delacretaz
Hi, On Mon, Apr 29, 2019 at 11:51 AM Eric Barboni wrote: > ...It seems that we need our mentors to handle the dist.apache.org folder > preparation for NetBeans... Now that NetBeans graduated, PMC members should have the necessary rights...in other words there are no mentors anymore ;-) If not,