NetBeans Weekly News - Issue #11

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Issue #11 - April 17, 2001 (this Monday was holiday in Prague)
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The most interesting thing in NetBeans during the last week 
is for sure the release 3.2. Release candidate 1 was released 
on Monday, April 9th:
    Subject: [NB 3.2] NB 3.2 Release Candidate 1 - Available
    URL: <http://www.netbeans.org/www-nbdev/msg05577.html>

After RC1 we switched to 'review before commit' mode for checkins
into release 32 branch, and there were more than 50 messages that
announced the bugfixes on nbdev@.

RC2 was released on Friday, April 13th.
    Subject: [NB 3.2] Release Candidate 2 Available
    URL: <http://www.netbeans.org/www-nbdev/msg05763.html>
    
We still have 2 weeks to planed date of final release. RC3 
is planned probably on Friday April 20th the final release 
is planed for April 30.
    Subject: [NB 3.2] Release Candidate 2 
    URL: <http://www.netbeans.org/www-nbdev/msg05728.html>

NB3.2 bugs statistics for the last week:
    URL: <http://qa.netbeans.org/release32/nb32-stats-w05.html>

Meg Garrison from Compaq Computer Corporation offered to create
packaging of release 3.2 for OpenVMS. 
    Subject: We'd like to place a NetBeans 3.2 RC1 kit packaged 
        for OpenVMS on the NetBeans web site
    URL: <http://www.netbeans.org/www-nbdev/msg05575.html>

The kit for OpenVSM is available for RC2. Thanks!
    URL: <http://www.netbeans.org/downloads.html>

The discussion about new Upgrade Wizard on nbui is still going 
on:
    Subject: Re: [nbui] Comments on the new Upgrade Wizard.
    URL: <http://www.netbeans.org/www-nbui/msg01718.html>

While 3.2 is getting closer to the final release, discussion
about new features for 3.3 has already started:
    Subject: [nbui] ideas for jar packager for 3.3
    URL: <http://www.netbeans.org/www-nbui/msg01735.html>

In the discussion about the future of the Java Hierarchy API,
Svata Dedic mentioned that he is working on a project called 
MDR (metadata repository) that should be opensourced soon,
that aims at implementing JSR-40 and should allow to store 
metadata persistently.
    Subject: Re: [nbdev] Extending Java Heirarchy API 
      (was Re: [nbdev] Allowed to use other module code? 
      / Refactoring module)
    URL: <http://www.netbeans.org/www-nbdev/msg05617.html>

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