NetBeans Weekly News - Issue #85

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Issue #85 - September 30, 2002
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*q-build*

Jirka Kovalsky announced successful q-build. Q-build report is available
at
http://qa.netbeans.org/q-builds/Q-build-report-200209250100.html


*nbdiscuss*

Discussion about Board voting continues. Ian Formanek created proposal
about next steps. Interested people agree with him. See discussion about
next steps at
http://www.netbeans.org/servlets/ReadMsg?msgId=381950&listName=nbdiscuss

Ian's proposal at
http://www.netbeans.org/servlets/ReadMsg?msgId=382942&listName=nbdiscuss


*nbdev*

Jan Chalupa annouced changes in q-build process, because QA engineers
works in different timezones. Look at Jan Chalupa post at
http://www.netbeans.org/servlets/ReadMsg?msgId=384550&listName=nbdev


Performance team informed us about its work. Tomas Pavek created web
page describing how to measure UI Responsiveness. Read his post at
http://www.netbeans.org/servlets/ReadMsg?msgId=382006&listName=nbdev

Document available at
http://performance.netbeans.org/responsiveness/measuring/


Trung has started to verify consistency of PropertyChangeSupport usage.
Read posts about how to do that at
http://www.netbeans.org/servlets/ReadMsg?msgId=384033&listName=nbdev


Yarda Tulach suggested to change default value of build system property
merge.dependent.modules to true. There are arguments for and also
against it, read the thread
http://www.netbeans.org/servlets/ReadMsg?msgId=381896&listName=nbdev


Holger Krug asked if it is necessary to put the shared libraries into
two different locations. Petr Nejedly explained the shared library
dependency by example and then suggest solution for Holger's case.
http://www.netbeans.org/servlets/ReadMsg?msgId=382140&listName=nbdev


Martin Roskanin wrote Proposal for Javacompletion module. It allows to
use java completion finder without dependency on editor module. Read
more at
http://www.netbeans.org/servlets/ReadMsg?msgId=382686&listName=nbdev

Read the proposal at
http://editor.netbeans.org/doc/Proposals/Completion/completionModule.html


*openide*

David Strupl found recent deprecated methods in core/openide, he was
asking for reasons. Not only responses to his questions, but also
interesting link to guide "How and When to Deprecate APIs" was mentioned
in this thread by Jan Chalupa.
http://openide.netbeans.org/servlets/ReadMsg?msgId=383495&listName=dev

Link to the guide:
http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.3/docs/guide/misc/deprecation/deprecation.html


*nbui*

Are you looking for a way how to properly indicate errors in dialogs?
Tor has started discussion about the topic at
http://www.netbeans.org/servlets/ReadMsg?msgId=383635&listName=nbui

Jan Benway wrote up proposal for that and published it at
http://ui.netbeans.org/docs/inline_errors/


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