Based on discussions by Antonio and others in July 2018 on this thread:
...the proposal is to have a NetBeans release 4 times per year:
2018
- August 2018: Apache NetBeans (incubating) 9.0 – released
- November 2018: proposal – https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/98e604268738d3f10f8dfae48d662fe468e8cdf847395ef5b3614dc4@%3Cdev.netbeans.apache.org%3E
- Rough schedule proposal:
- September
- To be included in the release:
- JDK 11 (September 2018) (P1)
- PHP (P1)
- JavaScript (P2)
- Java EE (P3)
- Feature freeze: September 24
- To be included in the release:
- October 1
- create vote candidate 1 (because each vote candidate is about two weeks)
- include test on JDK 11 (to be released 25 September)
- focus on producing the release throughout October.
- November 1
- release of sources and convenience binary (P1)
- site updates (P1)
- installers (P2)
- September
- Rough schedule proposal:
2019
- February 2019
- Tentative: Depending on how far we get, we can release the integration of some/all of the other features of the 2nd donation, i.e., Groovy, JavaScript, Java/Jakarta EE
- Tentative: Depending on how far we get, we can release the integration of some/all of the other features of the 2nd donation, i.e., Groovy, JavaScript, Java/Jakarta EE
- May 2019
- Tentative: The features of the 4th donation, i.e., C/C++ features.
- Tentative: The features of the 4th donation, i.e., C/C++ features.
- August 2019
- November 2019
2020
- February 2020
- May 2020
- August 2020
- November 2020