NetBeans Weekly News, a newsletter for the NetBeans community Issue #145

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NetBeans Weekly News, a newsletter for the NetBeans community
Issue #145 - Dec 15, 2003
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NetBeans' Governance Board - voting begins !

Choose your favourites and vote here:
http://www.netbeans.org/community/articles/boardFall2003_11_form.html
The candidates are:
Vincent Brabant, Ron Browning, Meg Garrison, David Strupl, 
Rich Unger
http://www.netbeans.org/servlets/ReadMsg?msgId=638475&listName=nbannounce

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CVS wizard to be removed tomorrow

Starting tomorrow there will be no CVS specific wizard for mounting 
CVS filesystems. In order to mount CVS directory, use Generic VCS 
wizard. It is available through 
"Versioning | Mount Version Control | Generic VCS" menu item.
http://www.netbeans.org/servlets/ReadMsg?msgId=641252&listName=nbusers

How to quickly change between last two files in editor ?

Daniel Blaukopf helped to answer Iwan's question.
It's ALT + <arrow_left|arrow_right>.
http://www.netbeans.org/servlets/ReadMsg?msgId=641108&listName=nbusers

3.6 confused, won't start

Glenn Holmer notified users about unclear message obtained while 
launching IDE. It informed about another already running instance 
and it happens when IDE was not exited correctly.
http://www.netbeans.org/servlets/ReadMsg?msgId=640379&listName=nbusers

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Version changes in Issuezilla: '4.0' -> '3.6'

Jan Chalupa performed necessary changes of components versions in 
Issuezilla. Since now version '3.6' means that issue concerns 
current trunk builds and bugs with target milestone 'future' will 
not be fixed in NetBeans 3.6.
http://www.netbeans.org/servlets/ReadMsg?msgId=638669&listName=nbdev

Problems with automatic testing of NetBeans

There are long lasting problems with stability of commitValidation 
test suite that is required to pass before any developer checks 
his/her changes to CVS. Jiri Skrivanek has identified three main 
reasons and explained actions to follow.
http://www.netbeans.org/servlets/ReadMsg?msgId=639543&listName=nbdev

Tomcat 5 server in NetBeans

Yes, NetBeans has built-in Tomcat 5 server in the distribution. 
However, according to Petr Jiricka this particular area is not yest 
usable because of several blocker issues, so please be patient until
it gets more stable.
http://www.netbeans.org/servlets/ReadMsg?msgId=637515&listName=nbdev

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Versioning Explorer name

VCS guys are searching for the most intuitive and short name for 
previous "Versioning Explorer" contextual action. So far it seems 
that "Show Versions" wins. If you have your own idea, add your 
comments to issue #37667.
http://www.netbeans.org/servlets/ReadMsg?msgId=637755&listName=nbui

Comments on UI changes from 3.5

Peter Williams provided his point of view on new design of the IDE. 
Several engineers responded to his concerns and evaluated some of 
the problems as defects. Indeed valuable feedback !
http://www.netbeans.org/servlets/ReadMsg?msgId=639861&listName=nbui

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Vincent Brabant asked native english community for review of one of 
his weblog articles where he fights for NetBeans success.
http://www.netbeans.org/servlets/ReadMsg?msgId=639855&listName=nbdiscuss
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This issue of NetBeans Weekly News was instantiated by Jiri Kovalsky.
Next week issue's chief editor will be Jiri Prazak.
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