NetBeans Weekly News Issue #6

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Issue #6 - March 12, 2001
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Sun open-sourced four new modules: Generic Version Control System, RMI
Support, JNDI Support, Multi-session debugger. All of them were previously
part of Forte for Java, Internet Edition. We got a lot of feedback on it.
Because of crossposting there are two independent discussions in two mailing
lists.
	Subject: "Four new modules contributed... please read"
	URLs: http://www.netbeans.org/www-nbdev/msg04604.html (NBDev)
		http://www.netbeans.org/www-nbusers/msg04626.html (NBusers)
	Jesse Glick made a summary of the feedback:
http://www.netbeans.org/www-nbusers/msg04680.html 

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We reached a feature freeze for NetBeans Release 3.2 (Mar/9) with the
exception of the four new modules. A new branch was created in CVS. 
	Subject: "release32 branch created"
	URL: http://www.netbeans.org/www-nbdev/msg04700.html

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As the feature freeze was coming we had a lot of contributions. Except for
the four new modules mentioned above, some other contributions and new
features that were integrated are:

	Image module - grid added by Lukas Tadial.
	Subject: "Image"
	URL: http://www.netbeans.org/www-contrib/msg00027.html
	
	Ales Kemr sent the first draft of the New Module wizard a week ago.
He got a lot of feedbacks.
	Subject: "New module wizard - first draft"
	URL: http://www.netbeans.org/www-nbui/msg01410.html
	
	NetBeans launcher for the OpenVMS by Larry Ingram.
	Subject: "NetBeans launcher for the OpenVMS operating system"
	URL: http://www.netbeans.org/www-contrib/msg00032.html
	
	ANT upgrade to version 1.3 by Jesse Glick.
	Subject: "Ant 1.3"
	URL: http://www.netbeans.org/www-nbdev/msg04468.html
	
	How to hide garbage files in explorer - very nice feature by Jesse
Glick
	Subject: "Ignoring garbage files in the Explorer"
	URL: http://www.netbeans.org/www-nbusers/msg04572.html

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The impending feature freeze deadline caused the quality of daily builds to
worsen last week. We had a lot of bugs reported. We also reach bug #10000
last week. Jan Chalupa suggested starting stabilization as soon as possible
- good idea!

	Subject: "Quality of the dev builds"
	URL: http://www.netbeans.org/www-nbdev/msg04597.html. 

	Subject: "Bug #10000"
	URL: http://www.netbeans.org/www-nbdev/msg04515.html. 

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We had new contributors to the NetBeans community last week: David Konecny
is working on the editor module and Nathan Phelps is working on the JUnit
module. Let's welcome them to the team!

	Subject: "David Konecny - new CVS committer"
	URL: http://www.netbeans.org/www-nbdev/msg04654.html

	Subject: "JUnit module v. 2.1 available now!"
	URL: http://www.netbeans.org/www-nbdev/msg04470.html

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Svata Dedic followed up Hrebejk's Navigator and started a new discussion in
nbui and nbusers.

	Subject: "Navigator II"
	URL: http://www.netbeans.org/www-nbusers/msg04681.html

	For those who missed Hrebejk's original Navigator it is located
here: 
	Subject: "Sync. of Editor and Explorer + possible solution
focus-follow-mouse"
	URL: http://www.netbeans.org/www-nbusers/msg03842.html

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The XTest test framework has a new website http://xtest.netbeans.org/. XTest
is a general test framework for Java based product tests. It was announced
some time ago. Daniel Pfeffer also sent the Signature tests proposal, which
is planned to be a part of XTest.

	Subject: "XTest on NetBeans web announcement"
	URL: http://www.netbeans.org/www-nbdev/msg04538.html. 

	Subject: "Signature tests spec. draft"
	URL: http://www.netbeans.org/www-nbdev/msg04425.html

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A lot of User Interface topics were discussed on the nbui list. Some of them
are:

	Subject: "Versioning Menu Spec"
	URL: http://www.netbeans.org/www-nbui/msg01463.html

	Subject: "Opinions about new toolbar look"
	URL: http://www.netbeans.org/www-nbui/msg01461.html

	Subject: "Design mode, test mode, and real mode in form editor"
	URL: http://www.netbeans.org/www-nbui/msg01414.html
	URL: http://www.netbeans.org/www-nbusers/msg04464.html (two
discussion threads, because of crossposting)

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Some other short notes about developer discussions on the NBDev mailing
list:

	Jan Jancura started a discussion about a model for breakpoints in
the Debugger module
	Subject: "Debugger API requirements - Editor API - Places"
	URL: http://www.netbeans.org/www-nbdev/msg04384.html
	
	Ian Formanek suggested some improvements on abbreviations in the
Editor module.
	Subject: "abbreviations in the editor"
	URL: http://www.netbeans.org/www-nbdev/msg04575.html

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For those who are interested in infrastructure-type issues related to the
whole NetBeans open source project, there is a mailing list
[email protected]. Last week we followed up the discussion about FAQ
improvements and Jesse Glick opened the discussion about etiquette -
crossposting of e-mails, etc. If you are interested in such a topics, please
join us at http://www.netbeans.org/mail-top.html

	Subject: "FAQ improvement"
	URL: http://www.netbeans.org/www-nbdiscuss/msg00084.html

	Subject: "Apache mailing list conventions"
	URL: http://www.netbeans.org/www-nbdiscuss/msg00122.html. 

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Bug summary, details at: <http://qa.netbeans.org/bugzilla/table.html>
                   bugs / enhancements
New last week:        37/22
Resolved last week:   86/14
Fixed last week:      62/11
Current totals:       98/226

These numbers include stable modules and Dev/Current versions only.
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