NetBeans Weekly News Issue #7

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Issue #7 - March 19, 2001
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Welcome to the issue #7 of the NetBeans newsletter.

To avoid speaking about 3.2 beta only, let's start with some politics.
NetBeans has new governance board:
<http://www.netbeans.org/www-nbannounce/msg00022.html>

But, some like it technical. If you do, look at nice thread about preventing
deadlocks. Maybe you want even add some your experiences with fighting the
deadlocks.
<http://www.netbeans.org/www-nbdev/msg04781.html>

Newly contributed module, the j2eeserver should provide infrastructure for
deployment and testing of components in application and web servers.
<http://www.netbeans.org/www-nbdev/msg04823.html>

And now we finally get to the 3.2 beta release. The beta cycle for the 3.2
started. 

Jesse branched the CVS repository. He also wrote a how-to about it. If you
are interested in coordinating the next release you can look at:
<http://www.netbeans.org/release-checklist.html>

Thanks to Rudolf Balada the continuous build of 3.2 is running and the
nightly builds are available for download. We invite everybody to download
and test the builds:
<http://www.netbeans.org/downloads.html>

Jan Chalupa started voting about the most annoying bugs. If you find such a
bug please vote. The instructions how to vote can be found at:
<http://www.netbeans.org/www-nbusers/msg04829.html>
The resulting bug parade page is available on:
<http://qa.netbeans.org/release32/netbeans32_bugs.html>

BTW the current bug statistics for the release 3.2 beta is a follows
(Enhancements are not included):
P1   : 7
P2   : 48
P3   : 197
P4   : 240
P5   : 78
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Total: 570
So it looks like there still remains something to kill. You can get an
overall feeling about the battle at:
<http://qa.netbeans.org/bugzilla/graphs/all_nb32.html>

Help with the "What's new", "Credits" and "Readme" files wanted. If you
added a new feature please, fixed a bug, introduced a new platform the
NetBeans IDE runs on, etc., please let others know about the features and
about yourselves.
<http://www.netbeans.org/www-nbdev/msg04836.html>

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