News, updates, tips, tricks NetBeans Core QA

The list of all NetBeans repositories can be found at http://hg.netbeans.org/. There is lot of repositories (clones) that are used for different purposes by different teams.
The most important repositories are

• main-golden - a copy of main synchronized only after a successful continuous build. Thus it is always "safe" to pull from. If a build is broken, it will contain only older changes.
• main - modules in the standard distribution and stable AU, build infrastructure, tests and test infrastructure, installer

There are also team repositories used by netbeans teams (e.g. core-main) and also main/contrib. The common developer work flow looks like

1. clone the main (or main-golden) [of course, you have to do it just first time, then you are using just pull - http://wiki.netbeans.org/HgHowTos]
2. fix bug / add new feature
3. commit it - don't forget about the right commit message
4. push to main
5. when the main build pass all the change sets are pushed into the main-golden
6. production build from main is created and published

Interested in more details?

• Hg How Tos-Understanding The NetBeans Repositories
• Hg migration