Re: NetBeans 9 release date

2017-10-14 Thread Antonio
I will print this and then hang it here for all to see. Thanks for this, Wade. On 14/10/17 15:51, Wade Chandler wrote: Posting on top here. Regardless of an NB 9 release date, I think 2 things can be huge factors. 1) That not everything we give users comes from Apache NetBeans, but instead we

Re: NetBeans 9 release date

2017-10-14 Thread Wade Chandler
On Oct 13, 2017 05:59, "Neil C Smith" wrote: In particular, it's no secret I think JavaFX is a dead-end. I'm not sure I foresee a time when either project moves UI to JavaFX - maybe I'm wrong. I have been pondering this as well, but I think that is for old projects like both IntelliJ and NB, b

Re: NetBeans 9 release date

2017-10-14 Thread Wade Chandler
Posting on top here. Regardless of an NB 9 release date, I think 2 things can be huge factors. 1) That not everything we give users comes from Apache NetBeans, but instead we make it super easy to link to projects build artifacts from the idea of the plugin center. IMO, Visual Studio Code is rocki

Re: NetBeans 9 release date

2017-10-14 Thread Martin Dindoffer
@Antonio - The second one. NB already has a graphing tool similar to the first link. @Illya - Yes I do use maven for builds. The build helper maven plugin's add-source goal is exactly what we've been using. We were generating sources to say "${project.build.directory}/superplugin" and setting that

Re: NetBeans 9 release date

2017-10-13 Thread Illya Kysil
Hi Martin, > Also, what if you generate sources with a maven plugin into a folder > different from "/target/generated-sources/" ? Do you use Maven to perform actual builds? If yes, how standard Maven plugins are configured to access those sources? > As always - other IDEs handle it with no prob

Re: NetBeans 9 release date

2017-10-13 Thread Antonio Vieiro
Hi Martin, Thanks for your feedback. Good to know you’re still using NetBeans. By “Eclipse’s dependency tree tool” what do you mean? Something like [1] or like [2]? Should we move these kind of emails to the user list? Thanks, Antonio [1] https://books.sonatype.com/m2eclipse-book/reference/f

Re: NetBeans 9 release date

2017-10-13 Thread Geertjan Wielenga
On Sat, Oct 14, 2017 at 12:04 AM, Martin Dindoffer wrote: > Sure, I was just trying to explain myself, and also the opinions of others > around me. Of course Netbeans has many positives, otherwise I wouldn't use > it. But we need to take a sober realistic look at it if we want to move it > forwar

Re: NetBeans 9 release date

2017-10-13 Thread Martin Dindoffer
Sure, I was just trying to explain myself, and also the opinions of others around me. Of course Netbeans has many positives, otherwise I wouldn't use it. But we need to take a sober realistic look at it if we want to move it forward and make it a top notch IDE it once was. I actually have to endur

Re: NetBeans 9 release date

2017-10-13 Thread Geertjan Wielenga
On Fri, 13 Oct 2017 at 22:10, Martin Dindoffer wrote: > Maven, just like everything else, lacks some of the refinements that can be > found in other IDEs. Other IDEs let you point to any folder containing a POM and let you open it without any import process? Without adding any IDE-specific file

Re: NetBeans 9 release date

2017-10-13 Thread Martin Dindoffer
Maven, just like everything else, lacks some of the refinements that can be found in other IDEs. For example, you can't "ctrl+click" through the remote parent references in the poms. And that's a pita in large projects where parents are often only in some remote repos. Also, what if you generate

Re: NetBeans 9 release date

2017-10-13 Thread Ciprian Ciubotariu
The netbeans-maven integration is waaa...aay better than what I found in eclipse and intellij. Maven projects are basically native netbeans projects - no extra files necessary. Unless you want to do something in your IDE that you don't want to write in pom.xml, I guess... On Friday, 13 October

Re: NetBeans 9 release date

2017-10-13 Thread Martin Dindoffer
Yeah a notification would be great. Thanks Emilian Martin 2017-10-13 16:15 GMT+02:00 Emilian Bold : > I'll look into caching and push an update to the plugin, hopefully > this month. Should I ping you when I have new binaries? > > I assume it might not be only about the size, but about the sudde

Re: NetBeans 9 release date

2017-10-13 Thread Emilian Bold
I'll look into caching and push an update to the plugin, hopefully this month. Should I ping you when I have new binaries? I assume it might not be only about the size, but about the sudden burst of requests during the initial load. --emi On Fri, Oct 13, 2017 at 5:10 PM, Martin Dindoffer wrote

Re: NetBeans 9 release date

2017-10-13 Thread Martin Dindoffer
@Emilian Bold - Well I am working on a quite large multimodule project. So that could be it. The pom file I've been working on during the exceptions was quite small with only a few dependencies. However, it has a few "type:pom,scope:import" dependencies too, so that may inflate the number of reques

Re: NetBeans 9 release date

2017-10-13 Thread Emilian Bold
er Mailing lists. Often People uses what is new and fancy, yeah that >> is not the Apache way but we should not force that People that they Need >> this stuff. >> >> Gesendet von Mail für Windows 10 >> >> Von: Geertjan Wielenga >> Gesendet: Freitag, 13

Re: NetBeans 9 release date

2017-10-13 Thread Martin Dindoffer
pache way but we should not force that People that they Need > this stuff. > > Gesendet von Mail für Windows 10 > > Von: Geertjan Wielenga > Gesendet: Freitag, 13. Oktober 2017 13:35 > An: dev@netbeans.incubator.apache.org > Betreff: Re: NetBeans 9 release date > > On Fr

AW: NetBeans 9 release date

2017-10-13 Thread Christian Lenz
@netbeans.incubator.apache.org Betreff: Re: NetBeans 9 release date On Fri, Oct 13, 2017 at 1:28 PM, Antonio Vieiro wrote: > > BTW, will all the issues at netbeans.org be migrated to JIRA? > There are various schools of thought on this question. We could move all issues over. Many of the issues a

Re: NetBeans 9 release date

2017-10-13 Thread Neil C Smith
Hi, On Fri, Oct 13, 2017 at 12:35 PM Geertjan Wielenga < geertjan.wiele...@googlemail.com> wrote: > We could move all issues over. > > Many of the issues are old or out of date or irrelevant, i.e., for features > that are no longer there, etc. It would be a massive task for someone to, > once the

Re: NetBeans 9 release date

2017-10-13 Thread Martin Dindoffer
l.com] > Sent: Friday, October 13, 2017 1:36 PM > To: dev@netbeans.incubator.apache.org > Subject: Re: NetBeans 9 release date > > On Fri, Oct 13, 2017 at 1:28 PM, Antonio Vieiro > wrote: > > > > > BTW, will all the issues at netbeans.org be migrated to JIRA? >

RE: NetBeans 9 release date

2017-10-13 Thread Cezariusz Marek
: Geertjan Wielenga [mailto:geertjan.wiele...@googlemail.com] Sent: Friday, October 13, 2017 1:36 PM To: dev@netbeans.incubator.apache.org Subject: Re: NetBeans 9 release date On Fri, Oct 13, 2017 at 1:28 PM, Antonio Vieiro wrote: > > BTW, will all the issues at netbeans.org be migrated t

Re: NetBeans 9 release date

2017-10-13 Thread bernd.ruehlicke
Just my 5 centsBernd Original message From: Geertjan Wielenga Date: 10/13/17 06:35 (GMT-06:00) To: dev@netbeans.incubator.apache.org Subject: Re: NetBeans 9 release date On Fri, Oct 13, 2017 at 1:28 PM, Antonio Vieiro wrote: > > BTW, will all the issues at netbeans.or

Re: NetBeans 9 release date

2017-10-13 Thread Geertjan Wielenga
On Fri, Oct 13, 2017 at 1:28 PM, Antonio Vieiro wrote: > > BTW, will all the issues at netbeans.org be migrated to JIRA? > There are various schools of thought on this question. We could move all issues over. Many of the issues are old or out of date or irrelevant, i.e., for features that are

Re: NetBeans 9 release date

2017-10-13 Thread Antonio Vieiro
> El 13 oct 2017, a las 12:41, Martin Dindoffer escribió: > >> What are those small things? Providing a list of those small things, for >> others to implement, is precisely the very significant role that you can >> play in this project. > > Hi there, fellow Java developer here. Hi Martin, than

Re: NetBeans 9 release date

2017-10-13 Thread Martin Dindoffer
> For the specific issue you mention -- would this help: > https://jaxenter.com/netbeans/keep-netbeans-nimble-with- maven-remote-search > I.e., if this were to be integrated into Apache NetBeans, I'm sure Emilian > would be interested in doing that, would that solve the problem? I will try that a

Re: NetBeans 9 release date

2017-10-13 Thread Neil C Smith
Hi, On Fri, Oct 13, 2017 at 11:00 AM Geertjan Wielenga < geertjan.wiele...@googlemail.com> wrote: > I think it would be great to have Darcula be one of the standard look and > feels in NetBeans, have contacted the plugin author about this, though also > probably there'll be licensing concerns and

Re: NetBeans 9 release date

2017-10-13 Thread Geertjan Wielenga
On Fri, Oct 13, 2017 at 11:16 AM, Antonio wrote: > > > On 13/10/17 10:49, Peter Steele wrote: > >> The Apache integration should be very prominent on the main page, it >> should >> link to all the relevant Apache pages and should ask for volunteers etc. >> The Apache wiki is ok, but most people k

Re: NetBeans 9 release date

2017-10-13 Thread Geertjan Wielenga
On Fri, Oct 13, 2017 at 12:41 PM, Martin Dindoffer wrote: > > * Maven integration is bad. Compared to competition it is slow, the > periodic indexing is painful. The dependency graph generator is unusable on > large projects. > That's an interesting observation because for most people a key rea

Re: NetBeans 9 release date

2017-10-13 Thread Martin Dindoffer
> What are those small things? Providing a list of those small things, for > others to implement, is precisely the very significant role that you can > play in this project. Hi there, fellow Java developer here. The thing is, as others have pointed out, Netbeans is quite behind other major IDEs an

Re: NetBeans 9 release date

2017-10-13 Thread Geertjan Wielenga
On Fri, Oct 13, 2017 at 11:40 AM, Peter Steele wrote: > >Have you tried this plugin: > >plugins.netbeans.org/plugin/62424/darcula-laf-for-netbeans > > > >Would be great to have that as part of Apache NetBeans. > > I use this, it's definitely the best look and feel that you can choose > from. But

Re: NetBeans 9 release date

2017-10-13 Thread Peter Steele
>Have you tried this plugin: >plugins.netbeans.org/plugin/62424/darcula-laf-for-netbeans > >Would be great to have that as part of Apache NetBeans. I use this, it's definitely the best look and feel that you can choose from. But the font used is something that puts me off. On 13 Oct 2017 10:18,

AW: AW: NetBeans 9 release date

2017-10-13 Thread Christian Lenz
And I think this is a big Topic, the HTML, js community, because this is the fastests growing community with lots of new Frameworks etc. Gesendet von Mail für Windows 10 Von: Antonio Gesendet: Freitag, 13. Oktober 2017 11:29 An: dev@netbeans.incubator.apache.org Betreff: Re: AW: NetBeans 9

Re: AW: NetBeans 9 release date

2017-10-13 Thread Antonio
On 13/10/17 11:24, Christian Lenz wrote: The best IDE for Android is coming from Google and called Android Studio, which is based on Intellij 😉. https://developer.android.com/studio/index.html I think they canceled the Support for the plugin for eclipse, for doing this. Yes, I know, but "be

AW: NetBeans 9 release date

2017-10-13 Thread Christian Lenz
@netbeans.incubator.apache.org Betreff: Re: NetBeans 9 release date On 13/10/17 09:49, Bertrand Delacretaz wrote: > Hi, > > On Fri, Oct 13, 2017 at 1:21 AM, Antonio Vieiro wrote: >> ...Should NetBeans support Apache Spark? Tomcat? The Go programming >> language? R? Whatever? Ju

Re: NetBeans 9 release date

2017-10-13 Thread Geertjan Wielenga
PS: See https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/NETBEANS/on+top+of+NetBeans for a list, this is the updated version, with more info being added, of https://platform.netbeans.org/screenshots.html. On Fri, Oct 13, 2017 at 11:09 AM, Antonio wrote: > > > On 13/10/17 09:49, Bertrand Delacretaz wr

Re: NetBeans 9 release date

2017-10-13 Thread Antonio
On 13/10/17 09:49, Bertrand Delacretaz wrote: Hi, On Fri, Oct 13, 2017 at 1:21 AM, Antonio Vieiro wrote: ...Should NetBeans support Apache Spark? Tomcat? The Go programming language? R? Whatever? Just find a big pool of developers and ask them what to do next, what they need, what they want.

Re: NetBeans 9 release date

2017-10-13 Thread Geertjan Wielenga
On Fri, Oct 13, 2017 at 10:49 AM, Peter Steele wrote: > The Apache integration should be very prominent on the main page, it should > link to all the relevant Apache pages and should ask for volunteers etc. > The Apache wiki is ok, but most people know about netbeans.org. > > In terms of my comme

Re: NetBeans 9 release date

2017-10-13 Thread Antonio
On 13/10/17 10:49, Peter Steele wrote: The Apache integration should be very prominent on the main page, it should link to all the relevant Apache pages and should ask for volunteers etc. The Apache wiki is ok, but most people know about netbeans.org. Exactly. We should plan the announcement

Re: NetBeans 9 release date

2017-10-13 Thread Peter Steele
The Apache integration should be very prominent on the main page, it should link to all the relevant Apache pages and should ask for volunteers etc. The Apache wiki is ok, but most people know about netbeans.org. In terms of my comments on "modern" and small things. I can't think of too many speci

Re: NetBeans 9 release date

2017-10-13 Thread Geertjan Wielenga
On Fri, Oct 13, 2017 at 10:31 AM, Antonio wrote: > > > On 13/10/17 10:19, Geertjan Wielenga wrote: > >> >> OK, will work on the main page, to add that info more explicitly -- do we >> have a central page at Apache we should point to from there? E.g., maybe >> we >> should point here from various

Re: NetBeans 9 release date

2017-10-13 Thread Geertjan Wielenga
On Fri, Oct 13, 2017 at 10:19 AM, Geertjan Wielenga < geertjan.wiele...@googlemail.com> wrote: > > On Fri, Oct 13, 2017 at 10:10 AM, Christian Lenz > wrote: > >> ➢ Where exactly would you like to see information on netbeans.org re >> Apache? >> ➢ I can see it already myself, it's been there for m

Re: NetBeans 9 release date

2017-10-13 Thread Antonio
On 13/10/17 10:19, Geertjan Wielenga wrote: OK, will work on the main page, to add that info more explicitly -- do we have a central page at Apache we should point to from there? E.g., maybe we should point here from various places on the front page of netbeans.org: cwiki.apache.org/confluence

Re: NetBeans 9 release date

2017-10-13 Thread Geertjan Wielenga
On Fri, Oct 13, 2017 at 10:23 AM, Christian Lenz wrote: > Yeah they started and then they cancled it. The go plugins, are far away > of usable. I talked to the devs, because you can see no source Code in the > plugin Portal. One Project is at github now, the other one, I’m waiting for > the Code.

AW: NetBeans 9 release date

2017-10-13 Thread Christian Lenz
Betreff: Re: NetBeans 9 release date On Fri, Oct 13, 2017 at 9:49 AM, Bertrand Delacretaz wrote: > Hi, > > On Fri, Oct 13, 2017 at 1:21 AM, Antonio Vieiro > wrote: > > ...Should NetBeans support Apache Spark? Tomcat? The Go programming > > language? R? Whatever? Just find

Re: NetBeans 9 release date

2017-10-13 Thread Geertjan Wielenga
On Fri, Oct 13, 2017 at 10:10 AM, Christian Lenz wrote: > ➢ Where exactly would you like to see information on netbeans.org re > Apache? > ➢ I can see it already myself, it's been there for months -- but where > would > ➢ you like to see it, where are you looking and not finding the Information >

AW: NetBeans 9 release date

2017-10-13 Thread Christian Lenz
ber 2017 10:00 An: dev@netbeans.incubator.apache.org Betreff: Re: NetBeans 9 release date On Fri, Oct 13, 2017 at 6:08 AM, Peter Steele wrote: > - netbeans.org is totally void of any Apache information, if you want more > people involved then communication should be updated there. > Where

Re: NetBeans 9 release date

2017-10-13 Thread Geertjan Wielenga
On Fri, Oct 13, 2017 at 9:49 AM, Bertrand Delacretaz wrote: > Hi, > > On Fri, Oct 13, 2017 at 1:21 AM, Antonio Vieiro > wrote: > > ...Should NetBeans support Apache Spark? Tomcat? The Go programming > > language? R? Whatever? Just find a big pool of developers and ask them > > what to do next, w

Re: NetBeans 9 release date

2017-10-13 Thread Geertjan Wielenga
On Fri, Oct 13, 2017 at 3:15 AM, Javier Ortiz wrote: > > If NetBeans was unique there would be more help since there were no other > options. But if your time is limited and not available or buggy on NetBeans > you just look around and there are other options. > > Personally the open source proje

Re: NetBeans 9 release date

2017-10-13 Thread Geertjan Wielenga
On Fri, Oct 13, 2017 at 6:08 AM, Peter Steele wrote: > - netbeans.org is totally void of any Apache information, if you want more > people involved then communication should be updated there. > Where exactly would you like to see information on netbeans.org re Apache? I can see it already myself

Re: NetBeans 9 release date

2017-10-13 Thread Bertrand Delacretaz
Hi, On Fri, Oct 13, 2017 at 1:21 AM, Antonio Vieiro wrote: > ...Should NetBeans support Apache Spark? Tomcat? The Go programming > language? R? Whatever? Just find a big pool of developers and ask them > what to do next, what they need, what they want... Funding such work is a problem - I could

Re: NetBeans 9 release date

2017-10-12 Thread Peter Steele
As one of those "netbeans users" I would agree with both sides of what people have been saying. I joined this and the user mailing list to find out a bit more about what is happening, I would love to contribute at some point but because of the little time I can give currently I wanted to wait for

Re: NetBeans 9 release date

2017-10-12 Thread Javier Ortiz
NetBeans is a huge scary code to most people including myself. Others just don't feel or plain lack the skill/knowledge to help, or at least that's what they feel. Takes lots of time just to get used to the concepts, structure and peculiarities of it. As with many other open source tools I contri

Re: NetBeans 9 release date

2017-10-12 Thread Geertjan Wielenga
Agree completely. And note that the NetBeans Governance is everyone here on the mailing list, i.e., we decide together what should be in a release of NetBeans. There's something in Apache called the PMC ( http://www.apache.org/dev/pmc.html#what-is-a-pmc) which in its simplest form is everyone who

Re: NetBeans 9 release date

2017-10-12 Thread Antonio Vieiro
> El 12 oct 2017, a las 23:56, Emilian Bold escribió: > >> I think, though this is just my opinion, that people simply using NetBeans > and not giving anything back at all, is something we need to actively move > away from. > > As a counterpart to this, I don't know where the millions of NetBea

Re: NetBeans 9 release date

2017-10-12 Thread Geertjan Wielenga
On Fri, Oct 13, 2017 at 1:05 AM, Ciprian Ciubotariu wrote: > Making a project free software does not automatically migrate all users of > the > project to become contributors to the project. PS: NetBeans has always been free software. The difference is that under Apache, it's not only free soft

Re: NetBeans 9 release date

2017-10-12 Thread Geertjan Wielenga
Described here: https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/NETBEANS/How+to+Participate Indeed, a lot has still to be done, it's too early for anyone to contribute anything other than what's described on this page at this point: https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/NETBEANS/List+of+Modules

Re: NetBeans 9 release date

2017-10-12 Thread Ciprian Ciubotariu
Making a project free software does not automatically migrate all users of the project to become contributors to the project. This takes time, because the task is to shift the mindset of the community of users being driven to users driving. Most won't shift simply because they want to be users,

Re: NetBeans 9 release date

2017-10-12 Thread Geertjan Wielenga
I must say there are already way more people sending in pull requests to Apache NetBeans, right now, than I had anticipated at this point. Plus, Emilian's amazing army of contributors that we had never heard of before, etc. I think that that is how we're going to be moving forward -- via code cont

Re: NetBeans 9 release date

2017-10-12 Thread Geertjan Wielenga
On Fri, Oct 13, 2017 at 12:08 AM, Daniel Gruno wrote: > On 10/13/2017 12:05 AM, Geertjan Wielenga wrote: > > Sorry, there are no millions of NetBeans users. > > And who cares if there are millions or thousands. > As long as _WE_ find it worthwhile to develop, it will have a home at > Apache :) >

Re: NetBeans 9 release date

2017-10-12 Thread Geertjan Wielenga
Yes, we have a dedicated team in Oracle in India working on NetBeans. And, no, that is not how Apache NetBeans is going to be driven -- by a team of developers in Oracle in India. :-) It is going to be driven by all of us, together. Gj On Fri, Oct 13, 2017 at 12:07 AM, Geertjan Wielenga < geertja

Re: NetBeans 9 release date

2017-10-12 Thread Daniel Gruno
On 10/13/2017 12:05 AM, Geertjan Wielenga wrote: > Sorry, there are no millions of NetBeans users. And who cares if there are millions or thousands. As long as _WE_ find it worthwhile to develop, it will have a home at Apache :) This shouldn't be a popularity contest. Apache is about fostering an

Re: NetBeans 9 release date

2017-10-12 Thread Geertjan Wielenga
No, that's not the same. When you say there are "millions of NetBeans users", that's not the same as "one million NetBeans users" and, again, that number is the absolute peak -- that's not necessarily the most consistent number, just its absolute height, in one particular month over a particular ye

Re: NetBeans 9 release date

2017-10-12 Thread Geertjan Wielenga
Sorry, there are no millions of NetBeans users. Also think about something else -- there are supposedly 9 million or so Java developers in the world. Whenever ZeroTurnaround puts together a survey, they have a massive struggle to even get 2000 people (of 9 million!) to fill in their survey. So, i

AW: NetBeans 9 release date

2017-10-12 Thread Christian Lenz
NetBeans has about 1M users or it is used by about 1M people, isn’t that the same? Gesendet von Mail für Windows 10 Von: Geertjan Wielenga Gesendet: Freitag, 13. Oktober 2017 00:02 An: dev@netbeans.incubator.apache.org Betreff: Re: NetBeans 9 release date There's already several p

Re: NetBeans 9 release date

2017-10-12 Thread Geertjan Wielenga
There's already several people involved in Apache NetBeans that weren't involved at all before. And, no one has ever said that there are "millions of NetBeans users". At its height, NetBeans has been in use by about 1.5 million people -- i.e., that's measured per month and the most popular months

AW: NetBeans 9 release date

2017-10-12 Thread Christian Lenz
@netbeans.incubator.apache.org Betreff: AW: NetBeans 9 release date Yeah sure, but this is more about communicating. I mean not everyone is willing to create a plugin or Change Code of the netbeans core as it is. Because if you see to other Projects like VS Code or other OSS maybe 1M People are users and from

AW: NetBeans 9 release date

2017-10-12 Thread Christian Lenz
give something back. So it is as it is and we shouldn’t avoid that. Gesendet von Mail für Windows 10 Von: Emilian Bold Gesendet: Donnerstag, 12. Oktober 2017 23:56 An: NetBeans Dev@ Betreff: Re: NetBeans 9 release date > I think, though this is just my opinion, that people simply using NetBeans

AW: NetBeans 9 release date

2017-10-12 Thread Christian Lenz
von Mail für Windows 10 Von: Geertjan Wielenga Gesendet: Donnerstag, 12. Oktober 2017 23:46 An: dev@netbeans.incubator.apache.org Betreff: Re: NetBeans 9 release date Yes, we're working right now on changing the licenses to Apache. Hard to know when that will be done, but it should be within

Re: NetBeans 9 release date

2017-10-12 Thread Emilian Bold
> I think, though this is just my opinion, that people simply using NetBeans and not giving anything back at all, is something we need to actively move away from. As a counterpart to this, I don't know where the millions of NetBeans users are. I don't see them in real life, not on social media, n

Re: NetBeans 9 release date

2017-10-12 Thread Geertjan Wielenga
Yes, we're working right now on changing the licenses to Apache. Hard to know when that will be done, but it should be within this month, I think. We could then focus on releasing that -- i.e., the first release would consist of all the new JDK 9 features (Jigsaw, JShell, etc), together with then

NetBeans 9 release date

2017-10-12 Thread Christian Lenz
Often People ask for NetBeans 9 and yes we already know that, because geertjan often said that it is up to all of us 😉. But often People only want to be users as I say it often. They want to use NetBeans. Ok anyway but the Thing is, do we have a specific date like a release Roadmap for NB 9.0 fo