Weekly newsletter #76

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Issue #76 - July 29, 2002
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  * Builds

During Wednesday testing the RC1 candidate, several critical bugs were 
found, and the candidate therefore was not promoted as RC1. You can see 
test report here:
<http://qa.netbeans.org/q-builds/RC1-build-report-200207232340.html>
The showstoppers were fixed and RC1 build is ready for download:
<http://www.netbeans.org/devhome/download.html>



  * News

New version of test tools module, containing Jelly 2 is on Beta 
Autoupdate. Announcement:
<http://www.netbeans.org/servlets/ReadMsg?msgId=354283&listName=nbdev>



  * Discussions

A discussion about default settings for Import Managment Tool started an 
issue:
<http://www.netbeans.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=23889>
An attempt to collect data for users how they use import statements was 
done in this thread:
<http://www.netbeans.org/servlets/ReadMsg?msgId=348500&listName=nbusers>
A vision for future handling of import statements in the IDE was defined 
here:
<http://www.netbeans.org/servlets/ReadMsg?msgId=353660&listName=nbusers>

Interesting and important discussion about placing of IDE samples 
currectly runs in this thread:
<http://www.netbeans.org/servlets/ReadMsg?msgId=355059&listName=nbui>
Add your comments!

If you wish to create a custom NodeListModel, read this thread:
<http://www.netbeans.org/servlets/ReadMsg?msgId=353773&listName=nbdev>

Are you going to release a module on the stable autoupdate? Then you 
should be interested in relationship between releasing standard 
distribution and independent modules.
See this discussion:
<http://www.netbeans.org/servlets/ReadMsg?msgId=354384&listName=nbdev>

Will the future releases have a code name? What will be the themes of 
the names? Vote here:
<http://translatedfiles.netbeans.org/rcn.html>
You can look on the results here:
<http://www.elinkzone.com/polls/viewstats.asp?pollID=353>
<http://www.elinkzone.com/polls/viewstats.asp?pollID=354>

If you are a module owner, you should be interested in the 
resposibilities of updating module specification version.
Look on this thread for more details:
<http://www.netbeans.org/servlets/ReadMsg?msgId=354834&listName=nbdev>

If you are interested in localized NetBeans, and particularly in Russian 
translation, see this thread:
<http://www.netbeans.org/servlets/ReadMsg?msgId=352588&listName=nbdiscuss>


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