NetBeans IDE 6.5 Community Acceptance Testing program (NetCAT)
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Introduction
Welcome to the latest NetCAT - NetBeans community testing
initiative. If you have not heard about NetCAT before, please read
what it's all about. The focus of NetCAT program is
to get early feedback on the main features and confirmation from NetBeans
community that quality of the product is ready for release.
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Organization
The NetCAT 6.5 team will consist of 60 members and 30 substitutes for
replacing inactive participants. The CA survey will be again open to everybody to obtain
a more objective feedback on the RC build quality. We kindly ask all potential volunteers to read the
responsibilities of NetCAT participant before
joining the program in order to understand and adhere to
NetCAT etiquette rules.
As usual members of the NetCAT program will enjoy many special privileges.
They will have an opportunity to nominate bugs which they and their colleagues consider
critical to the success of NetBeans IDE. Members who submit bugs during this program
will have their bugs marked with a prefix that guarantees special attention from developers
and QA engineers. Additionally, they can request new features for future releases. And
yes, there are some gifts ready for the most helpful members, of course. The most
important thing is that
we want our community to accept the release. Your views and
opinions are important to us!
What tools are in place ?
There are several means of access prepared especially for this program.
Here is the list:
| Item |
Description |
Detail |
Action |
| Mailing list |
Archived e-mail alias for communication of NetCAT 6.5 team members |
netcat@netbeans.org |
[View archive]
[View Gmane archive]
[View Nabble archive]
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| Marked issues |
All issues filed by program members are highlighted by a special prefix. |
[65cat] |
[Show the bugs]
[Show the RFEs]
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| Simple bug forms |
A special one-step form to submit issues and a simplified bug query form for
quick and easy use. |
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[Report new issue]
[Search an issue]
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| Dashboard |
Overall dashboard includes a NetCAT column reflecting quality status
of NetBeans 6.5 builds according to NetCAT 6.5 team. |
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[Take a look] |
| CA survey |
Special form prepared for Community Acceptance phase where everybody from NetBeans
community will get a chance to express their opinions on RC build quality and release readiness. |
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[Preview] |
Brief time schedule
This is a rough plan of important announcements, milestones
and tasks scheduled for the 2 months during the NetCAT 6.5 program.
- 6/30 - Program announced on nbusers and nbdev lists. Volunteers submit their applications.
- 7/11 - Participants selected. Alternate members are selected as well.
- 7/14 - Feature Freeze. NetCAT team starts testing the latest daily builds.
- 7/21 - First weekly report sent.
- 8/11 - Milestone 2 release.
- 8/15 - Inactive participants replaced.
- 9/12 - Final CA survey questions defined.
- 9/24 - RC1 release. CA survey open.
- 10/8 - CA survey closed, results processed.
- 10/13 - Last weekly report sent.
- 10/15 - NetCAT game over
Current status
The NetCAT 6.5 program is running smoothly. NetCAT 6.5 participants
are testing NetBeans 6.5 Beta or the latest development daily builds. On Friday 8/15
15 new volunteers replaced inactive participants.
[ FAQs | Dashboard |
Etiquette | Participants | NetCAT 6.0 ]
$Date: 2008/08/20 09:09:34 $ GMT
