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We succeed with the move of all bugs in core and openide components in NetBeans issuezilla. All existing bug were moved to "platform" component. The core and openide components were deleted from issuezilla.

If you want to report new bug or enhancement use platform subcomponent, please.

Update: all the issues are moved. Look at next post for more details.

Today(22/12) we started moving of more than 5.000 issues in our issuezilla bug tracking system. Till now more than 3.500 has been removed (and the number is still growing). The are some inconveniences for issuezilla users but we wanted to minimize them.

Problem	Solution
More than 5.000 emails will be sent to issues@ mailing lists	Remove everybody from the list. And add all subsrcibers to issues@platform after the move
Every reporter, person on CC will receive email about change of component/subcomponent of an issue. Because of issuezilla bug - 11998.	All notification emails are sent by qa@netbeans.org. It should be easy to delete all emails from this sender.
Votes are lost because of component/subcomponent change. That's bug in issuezila - 47233.	We will add comment with number of votes to every affected issue
Exception Reporter mapping needs to be changed	tool owners were warned
Users don't know where to report issues	New description to "platform" component was added
I would like refactor the package name "openide" into "platform" at the same time.	it won't happen. I don't see any reason. It would cause backward compatibility problems

After long discussions in NetBeans Core team we decided to move issues from openide and core components to platform component in Issuezilla. If you are interested how the subcomponents will look after the change - look at CoreQEIssuezillaAndModules.
The main reason for the move is that it is easier to understand what platform means to more users than the the core/openide concept that became too complicated. And therefore it should be easier to enter new issues. We will also close the openide/core components for new issues.

It also means to move the old issues to the new location. Unfortunately, CollabNet who is the owner of the Issuezilla and the only one who could update these issues directly in database won't help us. Therefore we have to do it by ourself. This move will generate thousands of emails to all the reporters, owners and people on CC. To reduce the number of emails we will move "only" those issues that are opened or were changed in last 2 years. Anyway, it means to move almost 5500 issues. We apologize for all the emails generated by the move.

The move will happen from 22nd to 23rd December 2008. The worst scenario is that CollabNet infrastructure won't survive so many emails and changes in the Issuezilla. And the netbeans.org will be down for a while. We hope that the whole move will happen smoothly without problems. Thank you for understanding if a problem with nb.org will appear.


Improvement

	Old	New
Openide	24	-
Core	23	-
Platform	1(www)	28(-www)

Our sustaining team released first patch for the new NetBeans 6.5. The patch fixes 62 bugs most annoying problems of NetBeans 6.5.

Don't be surprised that you need to update your IDE in two cycles. Firstly you'll see only one available update that will update only the updater.jar that contains fixes in the Plugin manager functionality. Then after restart the other updates will appear.

• NetBeans6.5 Patches Info
• NetBeans 6.5
• Do you have tips what should be fixed into next patch? Let us know! -> vote for issues, add comment. Of course, we want to hear a justification...