On October, 1st 2016, NetBeans became an official Apache Incubator project. A full list of all incubator projects is available at [1]. I assume that the project page (which is quite shortly today) will present much information soon [2].
A description of the incubation process is available at the web, too [3].
Some projects stay in the incubator for quite a long time. Since NetBeans is a very matured project, I hope it will become an Apache top level product soon.
Stay curious!
[3] incubator.apache.org/projects/netbeans.html
[3] incubator.apache.org/incubation/Process_Description.html
Let’s hope this doesn’t end up being a second OpenOffice….
Oh!