[65cat] [news] NetCAT Status Report - 1.

Hello team,



   this is the first issue of regular report I am going to compile every week. It will contain major achievements, important announcements, favorite bugs etc. from the previous week to give an update to those of you who were for example on vacation, busy etc.



1. *Current status*



   NetCAT program took off smoothly with average daily activity: ~79.3 e-mails and ~38.8 bugs per day. Frankly, the traffic is overwhelming. :-) It would be great if you focus your NetCAT testing on the _development builds_ until NetBeans 6.5 Beta is released. Besides, please make sure you use appropriate _prefix_ in subjects of your e-mails to simplify filtering of e-mails.



2. *Important stuff*

   * Due to high number of bugs and longer implementation of two features NetBeans 6.5 schedule _slipped for 2 weeks_ and NetCAT 6.5 had to follow this change. *Beta* is planned for August 11th.

   * Several participants expressed that NetBeans 6.5 M1 and development builds feel _very stable_ . On the other hand some _freezes_ were reported. If you encounter the same problem, please generate at least 2 thread dumps [1], file new issue and attach the dumps.

   [1] http://wiki.netbeans.org/wiki/view/GenerateThreadDump

   * Michel Graciano misses "Add Leading Star in Comment" setting of Java editor (#125698) and this regression will be fixed soon. If you don't see your favorite setting too, don't hesitate to speak up!

   * Joshua Juneau focused on Groovy support and provided us with his findings. Besides Zeljko Trogrlic reported P1 about impossibility to create new Grails project (#140098) which is already fixed now.

   * Thanks to all 32 respondents who participated in the _Certified NetBeans Professional exam_ survey.

   * This week is dedicated for _tutorials review_ [2]. Each review is worth 5 CAT points but please *do NOT take* more than 1 tutorial at a time!

   [2] http://www.nabble.com/-65cat---other--Tutorials-review-tt18570421.html



3. *Bug hunting*

   * If you get an exception in the IDE please use "Review and Report Problem" button to file such bugs. Thank you!

   * Anuradha Gunasekara reported P1 issue #140423 (corrupted Projects view) and it got fixed within 24 hours.

   * Glenn Holmer's P1 issue #140629 with 50 duplicates was fixed today.

   * I am thinking of introducing a new NetFIX program for guys like Anuradha Gunasekara who don't bother filing issues but rather fix them! (#140071, #140061) Any other volunteers? :-)

   * The best bug reporter was Saptarshi Purkayastha with 21 submitted issues (only 2 duplicates)!

   * I would like to ask everybody to adhere to _bug priority guidelines_ [3] when reporting bugs.

   [3] http://wiki.netbeans.org/BugPriorityGuidelines



4. *Statistics*



   Bugs submitted: 232 (+194)

   Open bugs:      145 (4/15/104/16/6)

   Posts:          638 (+555)



Any ideas for the next status report? Don't hesitate to speak up if you miss something!



Best regards,

-Jirka