NetCAT Program Etiquette
This page summarizes basic rules and advices valid for all members
of the NetCAT 5.5 team. We kindly ask all program participants to follow these rules
in order to help streamline the processing of the feedback provided during the program.
E-mail subject
Due to anticipated high traffic on the
NetCAT 5.5 mailing list,
especially at the beginning of the program, it is important to be able to filter NetCAT e-mails. Please
use the appropriate prefix in the subject line of each new message to the list, based on the area of the
message's concerns. See the table below for the prefixes. Also, we strongly recommend that you read all messages that
have [news] in the subject. These messages are program related announcements from the
NetCAT coordinator.
| Subject prefix | Message content |
| [ws] | Web Services support related problems |
| [ejb] | EJB support related problems |
| [web] | Web applications support related problems |
| [editor] | Any J2EE editor functionality problems |
| [server] | Application servers related problems |
| [news] | NetCAT program related announcements, requests, reports etc. |
E-mail content
If you want to have your feedback processed properly, we advise you to comply with
the following suggestions:
- Be brief. People tend to skip some parts of or even completely disregard long emails.
- Do not reply to other messages if you are posting a new topic. Such e-mails may be overlooked
as they get folded in the original thread.
- Do not mix topics. Instead, write two separate e-mails if you want to touch two functional areas.
- Help others if you know the answer.
- You can attach pictures provided they are smaller than 100kB
Bugs/Enhancements
Here is some advice regarding the reporting of defects or requesting of enhancements:
- File issues yourself. If you encounter a bug, report it. Don't rely on others because the sooner we
know about it the more time we have for a fix.
- Try to find a step-by-step reproducible procedure starting with an empty userdir or at least describe
what you did before.
- If the IDE is deadlocked, attach its thread dump. (Windows: CTRL+Break, Unix: CTRL+\)
- Vote for bugs that you feel strongly about.
- Follow the bug priority guidelines.
- Read the instructions on how to write a good bug report.
Viruses, Worms, and Spam
Please take all necessary precautions to protect your computers against virus attacks and any kind
of spam sent via
NetCAT mailing list. We will tolerate only one such event
originating from your account. If there is a second occurance, we will unsubscribe the offending account from the
NetCAT program immediately.
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