NetBeans Weekly News - Issue #116

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Issue #116 - May 19, 2003
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** Tegal (NB 3.5) release **

NetBeans 3.5 RC1 is still available for your testing:
http://www.netbeans.org/downloads/ide/next.html
If you run into serious problems, feel free to file high priority bugs
(P1) immediately.


** NetBeans Governance board Elections, May 2003 **

Nomination period for the board elections has ended. A two-week period
for voting is now running. You can find more details, including the
schedule at http://www.netbeans.org/community/articles/boardMay2003.html

To vote you can go directly to the polling page at
http://www.netbeans.org/community/articles/boardFall2003_form.html


** Pulled from the lists **

* nbdiscuss *

Support for JDK 1.3.x has been dropped from post-Tegal(3.5) code
http://www.netbeans.org/servlets/ReadMsg?msgId=515443&listName=nbdiscuss

NNTP access will probably move from news.netbeans.org to news.gmane.org
http://www.netbeans.org/servlets/ReadMsg?msgId=516791&listName=nbdiscuss

* nbui *

Are you concerned about usability of NetBeans? Then the report from the
Usability Study of the Second NB Projects System Prototype is the right
article for you:
http://ui.netbeans.org/usability/April_21_03/JavaProjectReport.html

Are you using Startup folder (a folder where you can drop a Java class
to have it be run during NB startup with internal execution)? Then,
speak up before Jesse removes this feature...
http://www.netbeans.org/servlets/ReadMsg?msgId=515496&listName=nbui
http://www.netbeans.org/servlets/ReadMsg?msgId=517091&listName=nbui

* nbusers *

Trying to choose between NetBeans IDE and Sun ONE Studio IDE?
http://www.netbeans.org/servlets/ReadMsg?msgId=519027&listName=nbusers

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