Re: Fwd: Re: Donation Request for kotlin-netbeans

[Antonio <an...@vieiro.net>]

This is great news!! Many thanks!!

As facts show, they aren't evil. On the contrary.

I wouldn't say they're competitors, either. They're very good at Swing, 
their UI is super fast!

Cheers,
Antonio


El 30/4/19 a las 15:52, Laszlo Kishalmi escribió:
> 
> They are competitors, they have proprietary stuff as well, but they are 
> not necessary evil.
> 
> -------- Forwarded Message --------
> Subject:     Re: Donation Request for kotlin-netbeans
> Date:     Tue, 30 Apr 2019 12:18:37 +0200
> From:     Dmitry Jemerov <in...@gmail.com>
> To:     Laszlo Kishalmi <la...@gmail.com>
> CC:     max@jetbrains.com
> 
> 
> 
> Hi Laszlo,
> 
> We'd be happy to hand over the development of the plugin to your team 
> and to transfer the code to Apache NetBeans. We'll still need to figure 
> out the technical issues, because the plugin depends on code that wasn't 
> very cleanly extracted from Kotlin and IntelliJ (see this comment 
> <https://github.com/JetBrains/kotlin-netbeans/issues/122#issuecomment-428468811>). 
> (All the code in question is also Apache licensed, but we'll need to set 
> up a sane build procedure so that you could depend on published 
> artifacts and not commit jars to the repository).
> 
> I'll be happy to be the technical point of contact for the transition 
> process for the beginning.
> 
> On Tue, Apr 30, 2019 at 11:12 AM Laszlo Kishalmi 
> <laszlo.kishalmi@gmail.com <ma...@gmail.com>> wrote:
> 
>     Dear Dmitry,
> 
>     I'm a member of Apache NetBeans PMC and the release manager of the last
>     two Apache NetBeans releases. It seems there are some interest on
>     Kotlin
>     support inside NetBeans and we came across that there is actually an
>     unmaintained plugin from JetBrains for that.
> 
>     I've read through the
>     https://github.com/JetBrains/kotlin-netbeans/issues/122 issue and
>     realized, that wit all that talk, we have never asked for donating that
>     code to Apache NetBeans.
> 
>     So here I'm asking you, that is it possible that we take over that code
>     and maintain it in our repositories, we would maintain and probably
>     release that along with the IDE?
> 
>     As the current code is already in Apache 2.0 license, an e-mail from a
>     responsible person would be enough to do the donation.
> 
>     Thank you in advance!
> 
>     Laszlo Kishalmi
> 
> 

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