There's clearly some wires crossed in the organization(s) involved. I thought that perhaps some linkage would draw some attention to what has (according to some parties) been a long-standing issue.
In hindsight, I probably shouldn't have rung the bell. We'll see how it works out, but mea culpa nonetheless.
The author of the bugreport in the link is the author of this here hacker news post.
He didn't have the patience to see what's the problem with this bugreport he posted today -- he just went ahead and posted the inflammatory subject here.
Is it entirely accurate to frame Netbeans as a "flagship Sun project"? Does Sun actually employ a significant number of people to work on this project anymore?
Absolutely. It is their tools platform for Java, Glassfish, JavaFx, etc. Besides, it's featured in the second position on sun.com (with only Java ahead of it).
First reply: "There's 75Gb free."
No other replies, no information, no resolution, no explanation. Save yourself the bother. C- would not read again.