NetBeans IDE 6.7 Community Acceptance Testing program (NetCAT)

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. Simply put, the goal 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.

Organization

   This time there are no limitations and anybody can join NetCAT 6.7 team. The CA survey will be again open to the whole NetBeans community in order to obtain as much objective feedback on the RC build quality as possible. We kindly ask all potential participants to read 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 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 QE engineers. Additionally, they can request new features for future releases. Finally, there are some gifts ready for the most helpful members, of course. Read NetCAT 6.7 plan in Wiki if you need more details. 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 6.7 team members	netcat@netbeans.org	[View archive] [View Gmane archive] [View Nabble archive]
Web forum	Web accessible forum for communication of NetCAT 6.7 team members		[Access forum]
Marked issues	All issues filed by program members are highlighted by a special prefix.	[67cat]	[Show the bugs] [Show the RFEs]
Simple bug forms	A special one-step form to submit issues and a simplified bug query form for quick and easy use.		[Report new issue] [Search an issue]
Dashboard	Overall dashboard includes a NetCAT column reflecting quality status of NetBeans 6.7 builds according to NetCAT 6.7 team.		[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.		[Preview] [Complete] [Results]

Brief time schedule

   This is a rough plan of important announcements, milestones and tasks scheduled for the 3 months during the NetCAT 6.7 program.

• 3/16 - Program announced on nbusers and nbdev lists. Volunteers subscribe to NetCAT mailing list.
• 3/23 - Feature Freeze. NetCAT team starts testing the latest daily builds.
• 3/31 - First weekly report sent.
• 4/20 - Beta release
• 5/22 - Final CA survey questions defined.
• 6/1 - RC1 release + CA survey opened
• 6/16 - Last weekly report sent.
• 6/18 - CA survey closed, results processed.
• 6/29 - NetCAT game over

Current status

   The NetCAT 6.7 program is over. The Community Acceptance survey has been closed and results are publicly available. Results from Satisfaction survey are also published. Besides, we have also published activity of all NetCAT 6.7 participants.

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$Date: 2009/11/02 14:13:06 $ GMT

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