Talk:Features/IntelliJ IDEA

13/11/2009 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:
 * how popular is this
 * should it really be a feature
 * 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  package. There's no blocker bug yet. Is it common, useful to have one?