small download page cleanup.

[mbien]

moved a few items around for improved readability and consistency.

• some inline sidenote has been moved down to Deployment Platforms as additional tip
• snap moved to community section
• mentioned that the zip is platform independent. This required to change the bullet list slightly otherwise it would have looked ugly.
• tips/warning annotations are now consistently below the main text block. Since one was below and the other above.

link to github preview

[neilcsmith-net]

Generally looks good, thanks! But the Snap package is from ASF, so should be listed with the other Apache artefacts as far as I know? cc/ @lkishalmi

[mbien]

Generally looks good, thanks! But the Snap package is from ASF, so should be listed with the other Apache artefacts as far as I know? cc/ @lkishalmi

the snap page says:
https://snapcraft.io/netbeans
"Disclaimer: This is a convenience binary of Apache NetBeans IDE, this is not an official release."

I just searched my mailbox and I don't see a vote thread with snap in it. Is it developed somewhere else?

[neilcsmith-net]

Convenience binaries don't require separate votes, and that statement really applies to all convenience binaries. As far as I know, the Snap account is under ASF, but check with Laszlo.

[lkishalmi]

Well, let me tell the story of the how the Snap package came into life.

I was working on it before Geertjan reached out to me to join to the Apache NetBeans team. (I might have a snap package ffor NetBeans 8.2 somewhere). I was searching for the possibility to distribute that on Snapcraft. The name netbeans was reserved by Canonical, to prevent people simply put something up there that would cause issues. So I distributed that package on an S3 bucket and put a link on my blog. (I do not think anyone used that except me)

I asked the community if we are interested to make this happen, when I became project member. There were positive responses, so I registered with my apache.org email and started a discussion with the Snapcraft team. That's how we got there.

I sent out invitations to the release team @neilcsmith-net , @geertjanw and @ebarboni to be able to manage the Snap package.

The code that generates the Snap package, initially was in the netbeans git repository, later on it was moved to netbeans-tools.

We have two packages on Snapcraft, both are built and uploaded from Apache build infrastructure:

• netbeans: Built from the binary zip package. It's triggered manually whenever a release/voting candidate is announced and uploaded to the edge channel. We have close to 35000 active installations, by now.
• netbeans-dev: Built right from master, automatically every Thursday. It is not advertised, not come up in the searches, but used around by ~20 people

[mbien]

@lkishalmi interesting! Thanks for the details, didn't know about all that.

Since its built from the zip, doesn't contain anything else and is maintained by a PMC member i simply added it to the main list now.

update

[lkishalmi]

Made my comments.

[mbien]

@neilcsmith-net @geertjanw will there be a release announcement for NB 16? Blog/toots?