Dev would generally contain a greater number of active participants that raise issues and are more intimately involved in the development of the given software product. Users generally participate in the discussions on a more academic perspective.
Most common for apache projects is to provide a status report as a requirement which is published to the dev list containing details on activity, [VOT] topics generally appear before a release for developer votes on readiness, and [DISCUSS] on general direction discussions. Apache mailing lists while casual also have a fairly structured topic format. That said, most of the apache lists I've participated in are library based and more recently Hadoop ecosystem based where most of the participants are quite interested in the development of that product with use as second.. > On 15 Jan 2018, at 20:46, Thomas Kellerer <sham...@gmx.net> wrote: > > Geertjan Wielenga schrieb am 15.01.2018 um 09:39: >> Release Candidate 2 is available and can be voted on in the dev mailing list: >> >> https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/796200c149232ba2da722c6d4b1310307708e09b2afa77eb90ecaebc@%3Cdev.netbeans.apache.org%3E >> >> Trying out the release and voting on it is needed -- by as many as >> possible, the more the merrier. >> >> If you would like to participate, join the dev mailing list: >> >> https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/NETBEANS/Mailing+lists > > Why is this voting done on the dev mailing lists? > > Shouldn't the _users_ vote whether the version is suitable to be released? > > From my point of view a release can not be done before the EE stuff isn't > migrated and the problems with nb-javac aren't resolved. > > (And NETBEANS-262 is a blocker for a release from my point of view as well) > > Thomas > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@netbeans.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@netbeans.apache.org > > For further information about the NetBeans mailing lists, visit: > https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/NETBEANS/Mailing+lists >
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