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  • We cannot afford to split the community. All users/developers should be using netbeans.apache.org as primary point of entry. As now, there should be an area for IDE and one for the Platform. Having both will allow users to possible explore new things they else never would see. (Bernd)
  • There are no technical obstacles to keeping all netbeans.org links perfectly working by using redirection. (Ognyan)
  • Single netbeans.apache.org will send clear message that NetBeans is open community that welcomes development involvement. It is also "cutting of ties" with the perception of the previous "corporate model". (Ognyan)
  • There will always be some confusion why there is such split. (Ognyan)
  • OpenOffice.org is not a good example for splitting because the name of the software is "OpenOffice.org" so they have to keep it. Also, OOo is consumer software so it's not expected that users will participate in its development. (Ognyan)
  • Example of using old domain is groovy-lang.org but they decided to not use groovy.apache.org at all, so again it's single domain for the project and no split. (Ognyan)

Arguments for  keeping netbeans.org separate from netbeans.apache.org:

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