NetBeans Weekly News - Issue #109

Jiri Rechtacek <[email protected]> Mon, 31 Mar 2003 16:44:26 +0200
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NetBeans Weekly News, a newsletter for the NetBeans community
Issue #109 - Mar 109, 2003
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As everyone knows TEGAL release is under high resistance mode, the works and discussion on next release have started. Here are some of the most interesting issues which had been browsed in the last week.

** TEGAL release **

TEGAL (i.e. NetBeans 3.5) high resistance mode has started in Mar/24, especially for developers means that all code changes must announced on [email protected] and be approved by the release coordinator. All other relation see at http://www.netbeans.org/servlets/ReadMsg?msgId=485443&listName=nbdev.

No q-build was announced this week because several serious problems were found, see report at http://qa.netbeans.org/q-builds/Q-build-report-200303252350.html. In relation to q-build process, Honza Chalupa reported a temporarily disconnection q-build test cycles because all TEGAL builds are under intensive testing at present. Regularly q-build will continue at the end of May 2003, more info find at http://www.netbeans.org/servlets/ReadMsg?msgId=490878&listName=nbdev.

TEGAL Release Schedule: Look at http://www.netbeans.org/devhome/docs/releases/35/index.html.

Ruda Balada announced also the daily alpha update center has been temporarily discontinued (http://www.netbeans.org/servlets/ReadMsg?msgId=488387&listName=nbdev).

** new goals **

Yarda started one of changes going to happen: improvement of datasystems and org.openide.loaders deprecation. Who is interested or affected can comment it in a thread at http://www.netbeans.org/servlets/ReadMsg?msgId=489024&listName=nbdev. The points of view are welcome.

** other topics from discussions **

Radim Kubacki proposed that Customize Bean action could be removed, a applause or a objection express in http://www.netbeans.org/servlets/ReadMsg?msgId=489451&listName=nbui.

A discussion about FileSystems API representing non-exestings files started Petr Jiricka, watch it at http://openide.netbeans.org/servlets/ReadMsg?msgId=488796&listName=dev.

Pete Eakle with Jesse have discussed a way to show errors to user. To see what come to that look at http://openide.netbeans.org/servlets/ReadMsg?msgId=487483&listName=dev.

Tor's status report of JTidy integration: http://www.netbeans.org/servlets/ReadMsg?msgId=491052&listName=nbdiscuss.

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