Hi, my name is Jaroslav Tulach and I am founder and original architect of NetBeans. These days I work for OracleLabs on Graal/Truffle project.
I've been observing Geertjan's heroic effort from a distance (as I was busy with my day-to-day tasks), but finally I found some time and decided to join this mailing list. I love NetBeans and I'd like to contribute to a successful transfer of the project to Apache's stewardship. Certainly I don't want my silence to be a reason for not accepting NetBeans - that's something I would never forgive myself. I have always seen NetBeans as a relatively open open source project with good build infrastructure, and open development processes - I even gave talks as part of NetBeans Certified Engineer Courses about that: http:// wiki.netbeans.org/File:Nbp-contribute_NetBeansCertifiedEngineerCourse.pdf The one drawback I was aware of was related to producing releases - while the code is public (in http://hg.netbeans.org/releases repository), the build infrastructure isn't and I even don't know where to find it. Fixing this was one important thing I expected from the Apache transition. As far as I was told by Geertjan, the incubator review revealed way more issues (plugins.netbeans.org, statistics.netbeans.org, etc.) and I feel a bit embarrassed for not thinking about that sooner. Hopefully none of that is critical enough to prevent the transition. In any case, I am here and I am ready to help removing any roadblocks we may find while working on Apache NetBeans. Jaroslav Tulach NetBeans Platform Architect OracleLabs --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: general-unsubscr...@incubator.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: general-h...@incubator.apache.org
