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Use project specific license in Netbeans + Maven

Use this in pom.xml and Netbeans is intelligent enough to inject appropriate license in all newly created files. <licenses>         <license>             <name>The Apache Software License, Version 2.0</name>             <url>http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0.txt</url>             <distribution>repo</distribution>             <comments>A business-friendly OSS license</comments>         </license>     </licenses> And this is what it produces /*  * Copyright 2012 intesar.  *  * Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");  * you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.  * You may obtain a copy of the License at  *  *      http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0  *  * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software  * distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,  * WITHOUT WARRAN

Forum/Questions feature request to Github & Google

Hey Github/Google why don't you add a forum/questions feature just like other "wiki" and "issues" features. Today there is no way project adopters can ask direct questions to the project community without creating an issue and this will not scale, simply because many non-contributors do not read issues and answer's them. So eventually we are keeping big knowledge base out of helping others adopt or solve problems. Lack of this feature simply discourages people asking questions fearing they are spamming the project with issues, and eventually they will end-up not using the product. And on the other hand if you add this feature it will simply create more value, increase user engagement, and addition of new knowledge base to your system. You might also argue that why we need to duplicate this feature when there are other good sites like StackOverFlow for doing this, but adding or integrating this feature to your products is more natural as users will find