Talk:Features/IntelliJ IDEA

13/11/2007 Fesco meeting

• Summary: http://meetbot.fedoraproject.org/fedora-meeting/2009-11-13/fesco.2009-11-13-17.00.html
• Full log: http://meetbot.fedoraproject.org/fedora-meeting/2009-11-13/fesco.2009-11-13-17.00.log.html (18:02:58 -- 18:15:34)
• Outcome: Deferred, questions to be asked on next meeting: 18:08:47 <nirik> so, how about we defer this, ask the feature owner:
  1. how popular is this
  2. should it really be a feature
  3. and are reviewers lined up and/or review bugs marked as part of a feature

How popular is this

TBD

• Figures? Couldn't find any recent enough
  • Some poll: http://www.certpal.com/blogs/2009/08/your-favorite-java-ide/
• Numbers smaller as it used to be closed, popularity likely to increase
• Is this popular internationally comparably to .cz? (JetBrains, company that develops this is Czech-based)
  • Seems like it is
• With Eclipse and NetBeans universally acknowledged as Java IDE Wars survivor
  • http://www.devx.com/Java/Article/34009/1954?pf=true

Should it really be a feature

TBD

• NetBeans was
• Likely to attract new users. How?
  • Strongest point for being a feature
  • First to ship IDEA
  • Pleasing and attracting Java community with IDEA as well as stack it builds on, Groovy
• Assuring open-sourcing closed stuff is a good idea, helping IDEA grow community
  • Just newly open-sourced http://blogs.jetbrains.com/idea/2009/10/intellij-idea-open-sourced/
• Just a bunch of packages?
  • Basically, every feature lives in a packages
  • Substantial packaging work done on dependencies, first to ship them (others follow, openSUSE)

Reviewing packages

The dependent packages are/will be organized in tree of dependencies whose root will be the main intellij-idea package. There's no blocker bug yet. Is it common, useful to have one?