[GitHub] [netbeans-website] lkishalmi commented on pull request #632: small download page cleanup.

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lkishalmi commented on PR #632:
URL: https://github.com/apache/netbeans-website/pull/632#issuecomment-1343226589

   Well, let me tell the story of the how the Snap package came into life.
   
   I was working on it before Geertjan reached out to me to join to the Apache NetBeans team. (I might have a snap package ffor NetBeans 8.2 somewhere). I was searching for the possibility to distribute that on Snapcraft. The name `netbeans` was reserved by Canonical, to prevent people simply put something up there that would cause issues. So I distributed that package on an S3 bucket and put a link on my blog. (I do not think anyone used that except me)
   
   I asked the community if we are interested to make this happen, when I became project member. There were positive responses, so I registered with my apache.org email and started a discussion with the Snapcraft team. That's how we got there.
   
   I sent out invitations to the release team @neilcsmith-net , @geertjanw and @ebarboni to be able to manage the Snap package.
   
   The code that generates the Snap package, initially was in the `netbeans` git repository, later on it was moved to `netbeans-tools`.
   
   We have two packages on Snapcraft, both are built and uploaded from Apache build infrastructure:
    - **netbeans**: Built from the binary zip package. It's triggered manually whenever a release/voting candidate is announced and uploaded to the edge channel. We have close to 35000 active installations, by now.
    -  **netbeans-dev**: Built right from master, automatically every Thursday. It is not advertised, not come up in the searches, but used around by ~20 people


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