Total respondents: 117 respondents
Duration: July 9th - July 22nd, 2018 (14 days)
Evaluation of all potential release blockers

Overall Quality

Can you compare Apache NetBeans IDE 9.0 and NetBeans IDE 8.2 in terms of Overall Quality?

38	32.5 %	Quality of Apache NetBeans IDE 9.0 is better than NetBeans IDE 8.2
67	57.3 %	The two releases are basically comparable
12	10.3 %	Quality of Apache NetBeans IDE 9.0 is worse than quality of NetBeans IDE 8.2

Comments:

Performance
ok
Plugins are not available (Solution: https://blogs.apache.org/netbeans/entry/what-s-happened-to-my)
Just performance issues and slow to release, yest no support for CSS Grid
cannot download nb-javac library,
Can you please add support for more PHP Frameworks e.g. Laravel, Blade etc.
Modern code does not soley rely on Java only code. Support for non-Java code, builds and languages is lacking. I cannot say 9 is comparable if it only performs with 85% of my code base. (Solution: https://blogs.apache.org/netbeans/entry/what-s-happened-to-my)
Unable to render Jira issues macro, execution error.
Java 9+ features seem half baked. Modules can't be renamed or deleted in Netbeans but can be modified out of IDE. There is no way to easily convert classpath to modular project structure despite being easy to do by hand(at least on smaller projects).
I use ctrl+click on xhtml, jsf pages which is broken. Unable to render Jira issues macro, execution error.
no php/js support (Solution: https://blogs.apache.org/netbeans/entry/what-s-happened-to-my)
The lack of some features as JavaHelp for RCP modules.

Performance

Can you compare Apache NetBeans IDE 9.0 and NetBeans IDE 8.2 in terms of Performance?

32	27.4 %	Performance of Apache NetBeansIDE 9.0 is better than performance of NetBeans IDE 8.2
79	67.5 %	The two releases are basically comparable in term of performance
6	5.1 %	Performance of Apache NetBeansIDE 9.0 is worse than performance of NetBeans IDE 8.2

Comments:

No
No specific issue - overall performance is not as good as with 8.2
No
It is very slow in loading
Nine is much slower. Slowness seems to be evident with Gradle projects and loading of most projects after Netbeans has begun.
I don't know

What do you think about the Apache NetBeans IDE 9.0 Java editing features?

88	75.2 %	The quality of Java editing support meets my expectations and it is ready for release
22	18.8 %	There are some problems in Java editing support but these can wait until the next release
7	6 %	Java editing support is not stable yet

Comments:

Unable to render Jira issues macro, execution error.
connect reset for http://plugins.netbeans.org/nbpluginportal/updates/9.0/catalog.xml.gz
Unable to render Jira issues macro, execution error.
Unable to render Jira issues macro, execution error.
Code completion of module path's often result in an org.netbeans.modules.parsing.spi.ParseException exception.
Code completion and compile as you work are not performing well, often providing no helpful completions in the current context.
Jg b gnash

What do you think about the Apache NetBeans IDE 9.0 Java debugging features?

77	65.8 %	*The quality of Java debugging support meets my expectations and it is ready for release*
23	19.7 %	There are some problems in Java debugging support but these can wait until the next release
0	0 %	Java debugging support is not stable yet
17	14.5 %	I do not use Java debugging features

What do you think about the Apache NetBeans IDE 9.0 Java refactoring features?

79	67.5 %	*The quality of Java refactoring support meets my expectations and it is ready for release*
27	23.1 %	There are some problems in Java refactoring support but these can wait until the next release
1	0.9 %	Java refactoring support is not stable yet
10	8.5 %	I do not use Java refactoring features

Comments:

Deleting and renaming files inconsistently throw exceptions. Changing interface types sometimes results in an exception as well, with the interface type changing but all implementations requires manual changes.