May I Introduce myself?

[Thomas <ta...@online.de>]

Hi there,

I'm Thomas.

After on and off working with Netbeans since it was called Forte or 
SunOne, I finally convinced my self to try a bit of contribution.

So I started to rummaging through the Jira issues, took the liberty to 
close some obvious SPAM issues as 'Invalid', (Btw: is this the way it 
should be done? I was rather surprised, that I'm allowed to close issues 
in the first place!) found a common reason to 6 of the issues 
(https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/NETBEANS-6349), added comments to 
others that I hope are of some help, and also added some Issues of my own.

Now, in two cases, NETBEANS-4595 
<https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/NETBEANS-4595> and NETBEANS-6345 
<https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/NETBEANS-6345>, I had the 
impression, that people struggle with how to properly cope with 
developing with several JDKs, and how this might impact the integration 
of build tools (i. e. maven, ant, gradle)

So I would like to do a piece, that does give some instructions and 
advice for that.

But on top of not yet having editing rights to 
https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/NETBEANS (the wiki states, I 
should ask here for permission), I'm not sure, whether this would be the 
right place for it, as it seems to be geared to developing Netbeans, 
rather than using.

So I'm just asking, to be put into the right starting position, to help 
out with documentation.

I might be able to help out with fixing bugs later on; but I would need 
to feel about my way in NBs code and process some time, before I'm ready 
for that.

As for NETBEANS-4595 
<https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/NETBEANS-4595> and NETBEANS-6345 
<https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/NETBEANS-6345>, I personally 
would have deemed them as 'Not a Bug', at best they could be turned into 
a 'Request for enhancement', but even this is in doubt, as Netbeans 
obviously *has* a way to deal with that - its just different from what 
the users expected. In a commercial driven support organization, these 
usually get rudely closed as 'Won't fix'. What is the accepted policy 
here in cases like this?

(This might still be another thing, that should get documented somewhere)

Regards,

Thomas








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Re: May I Introduce myself?

[Geertjan Wielenga <ge...@googlemail.com.INVALID>]

Awesome, you're very welcome, keep doing what you're doing, and I've given
you access to Confluence (you may need to log in/out).

Gj

On Sat, Jan 1, 2022 at 9:16 PM Thomas <ta...@online.de> wrote:

> Hi there,
>
> I'm Thomas.
>
> After on and off working with Netbeans since it was called Forte or
> SunOne, I finally convinced my self to try a bit of contribution.
>
> So I started to rummaging through the Jira issues, took the liberty to
> close some obvious SPAM issues as 'Invalid', (Btw: is this the way it
> should be done? I was rather surprised, that I'm allowed to close issues
> in the first place!) found a common reason to 6 of the issues
> (https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/NETBEANS-6349), added comments to
> others that I hope are of some help, and also added some Issues of my own.
>
> Now, in two cases, NETBEANS-4595
> <https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/NETBEANS-4595> and NETBEANS-6345
> <https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/NETBEANS-6345>, I had the
> impression, that people struggle with how to properly cope with
> developing with several JDKs, and how this might impact the integration
> of build tools (i. e. maven, ant, gradle)
>
> So I would like to do a piece, that does give some instructions and
> advice for that.
>
> But on top of not yet having editing rights to
> https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/NETBEANS (the wiki states, I
> should ask here for permission), I'm not sure, whether this would be the
> right place for it, as it seems to be geared to developing Netbeans,
> rather than using.
>
> So I'm just asking, to be put into the right starting position, to help
> out with documentation.
>
> I might be able to help out with fixing bugs later on; but I would need
> to feel about my way in NBs code and process some time, before I'm ready
> for that.
>
> As for NETBEANS-4595
> <https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/NETBEANS-4595> and NETBEANS-6345
> <https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/NETBEANS-6345>, I personally
> would have deemed them as 'Not a Bug', at best they could be turned into
> a 'Request for enhancement', but even this is in doubt, as Netbeans
> obviously *has* a way to deal with that - its just different from what
> the users expected. In a commercial driven support organization, these
> usually get rudely closed as 'Won't fix'. What is the accepted policy
> here in cases like this?
>
> (This might still be another thing, that should get documented somewhere)
>
> Regards,
>
> Thomas
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
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