Would this help any?

https://github.com/apache/netbeans-website/pull/533

Since the links in the index.asciidoc were referencing html and not new 
asciidoc file names, I swapped .html to .asciidoc

Eric Bresie
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> On March 6, 2021 at 1:58:57 PM CST, Geertjan Wielenga 
> <geertjan.wiele...@googlemail.com.invalid 
> (mailto:geertjan.wiele...@googlemail.com.invalid)> wrote:
> Everything as it was before worked fine for you. Not for me. :-) I was 
> working on them all on my own -- and that is not how open source is supposed 
> to work.
>
> We're in Apache now, which means you get involved -- you don't say "I do not 
> know where and how to fill an issue", instead you say: "Where do I go and how 
> do I fill out an issue?"
>
> And that is here:
>
> https://issues.apache.org/jira/projects/NETBEANS/issues/NETBEANS-5397?filter=allopenissues
>
> Also, all the tutorials are now on GitHub. Including the one you're referring 
> to:
>
> https://github.com/apache/netbeans-website/blob/master/netbeans.apache.org/src/content/tutorials/nbm-xmleditor.asciidoc
>
> I've already fixed the broken code via this pull request, as a result of your 
> mail:
>
> https://github.com/apache/netbeans-website/pull/532
>
> Nothing here is "rather disappointing" -- everything is in progress, 
> including the tutorials. The big difference now is that you're in a project 
> where you're no longer a consumer, you're a contributor.
>
> Yes, the tutorials have been transferred from HTML to Asciidoc on GitHub and 
> the process is far from complete. Your mail has motivated me to commit to 
> working on one of the NetBeans Platform tutorials per day, it will take a 
> while to get everything up to scratch -- and a simple copy and paste of the 
> tutorials would not have done the trick, since the old ones were HTML and the 
> new ones are Asciidoc on GitHub -- so that you can now contribute too.
>
> Welcome to Apache. :-)
>
> Gj
>
>
> On Sat, Mar 6, 2021 at 8:51 PM (x-apple-data-detectors://7) Richard Grenon 
> <rgreno...@gmail.com (mailto:rgreno...@gmail.com)> wrote:
> > Hello Geertjan.
> >
> > Netbeans Platform concepts are not easy to understand (I have purchased the 
> > book for beginners), and wrong tutorials are rather discouraging.
> >
> > I do not know where and how to fill an issue, and I discovered the problem 
> > for the XML editor tutorial this evening (x-apple-data-detectors://9). The 
> > old tutorial has gone and the new one is wrong. You can have a look on this 
> > tutorial that is rather short.
> >
> > Only the first screenshot for creating the project is correct. All 
> > following screenshots do not follow the text, and some of them seem to be 
> > from other applications.
> >
> > Finally, the short piece of code given for the method is melted with html 
> > links, so it is unreadable.
> >
> > I cannot provide correct screenshots and code because I have erased my 
> > first test of this tutorial, and the html page with the correct old version 
> > of the tutorial has gone.
> >
> > I do not know if other Apache tutorials are wrong, but the transfer of this 
> > one is rather disappointing. Why the old version from netbeans.org 
> > (http://netbeans.org) has not been simply copied to a new Apache page 
> > rather than rewritten with errors ? For me, correcting the tutorial would 
> > be simply to provide a link pointing on the old version.
> >
> > So the question is : where can we find all the tutorials from the old 
> > netbeans.org (http://netbeans.org)?
> >
> > Richard
> > Le sam. 6 mars 2021 à 20:05 (x-apple-data-detectors://12), Geertjan 
> > Wielenga <geertjan.wiele...@googlemail.com 
> > (mailto:geertjan.wiele...@googlemail.com)> a écrit :
> > >
> > > Which screenshots specifically are wrong — I’d be happy to collaborate 
> > > with you to work on the tutorials that you would like fixed. If you 
> > > create a new issue for each tutorial you’d like to work together on, with 
> > > very precise descriptions of what is wrong, ideally providing the correct 
> > > screenshot or code, and otherwise just being precise in saying what 
> > > should be corrected, we can work on this together to improve the 
> > > tutorials in order of your preference.
> > >
> > > What do you think?
> > >
> > > Gj
> > >
> > > On Sat, 6 Mar 2021 at 19:54 (x-apple-data-detectors://14), Richard 
> > > <rgreno...@gmail.com (mailto:rgreno...@gmail.com)> wrote:
> > > > Hello.
> > > >
> > > > Some days ago, I successfully performed a tutorial for XML Editor
> > > > extension. The link was :
> > > >
> > > > https://platform.netbeans.org/tutorials/nbm-xmleditor.html
> > > >
> > > > As I had removed this test from my disk, today I tried to perform again
> > > > this tutorial, but the link points now to :
> > > >
> > > > https://netbeans.apache.org/tutorials/nbm-xmleditor.html
> > > >
> > > > On this new link, the screenshots do not correspond to the text, and the
> > > > code given for the method "actionPerformed" is unreadable because it
> > > > contains links to javadoc html pages, and all these links point to the
> > > > Apache transition page :
> > > >
> > > > https://netbeans.apache.org/about/oracle-transition.html
> > > >
> > > > Please, could anybody check this tutorial (and maybe other tutorials) or
> > > > provide a link to the correct old version ?
> > > >
> > > > Richard
> > > >
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