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I had forgotten how many frameworks are covered in the NetBeans set of quickstart documents; check out the list:
GlassFish v3 is scheduled to go final at the end of November and the builds are stabilizing quickly. Our test suites are very exhaustive but the only way to be sure that the final artifacts work for you is if you try them in your specific configuration. I was looking through the list and it made me think that FishCAT for GF v3 just completed its first week (See Judy's mail and report) and that team filed more than 20 bugs and more than half have already been fixed. so...
If you use one of the Java Frameworks, or your favorite app or framework, with the latest GF v3 builds and find issues, help us, and the rest of the community, by filing a bug. Thanks!
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The FishCAT is Back! (with apologies to Dr. Seuss)! Judy has announced the Launch of the FishCAT Program for GlassFish v3, building on the success of the GFv3 Prelude Program (also see the 100 members achievement). We are in the final stretch for GFv3 (roadmap); if you are interested in helping with the quality of this critical release for GlassFish, check Judy's Post, and the FishCAT home and Wiki pages and contact Judy through the Quality Alias. |
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The NetBeans Community Acceptance Team (NetCAT) was created to facilitate wide community participation in validating the quality of the NetBeans distributions. The same principles are now being applied to two new areas: Bug Fixing and New Development |
The new programs are NetFIX (mailing list) and NetDEV (mailing list). In both cases the principle is to encourage participation through a support group and some direct help from more experienced developers.
NetCAT has been very successful and we applied it to GlassFish via FishCAT (Wiki, entries@TA) In the past we had explored ideas like "adopt-a-bug" and "starter bugs" for GlassFish; perhaps the NetFIX and NetDEV ideas would be applicable too.
Check the project websites and also see Toni's post for more details.
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The Quality Team started the FishCAT program for the GFv3 Prelude release and it has worked very well - 36 members from 18 different countries, filing 125 reports plus much feedback. To celebrate the launch of v3 Prelude, Judy has posted a Thank-You, as well as the series of entries where she introduces key members of the team, starting with Adam (blog, photo), Sebastien (blog, photo) and Kirstian (blog, photo), I'm sure the FishCAT program will be repeated for v3 FCS and we will announce it when it happens. In the meantime, all the members continue to be engaged in GlassFish; for example, Adam is Ready to use GFv3 in production as soon as there is an EJB container ready... |
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The GlassFish Quality Community is doing an outstanding job! Check out the MarkMail Archive: 506 posts in August and 492 in September already. Part of reason is the GFv3 Prelude release but the bulk is just community focus. Check out the FishCAT reports ([1], [2], [3]) and the Community Meeting Minutes. |
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The GlassFish Quality Community is hard at working getting ready for next month's release of GlassFish v3 Prelude. Their meetings are all public - check the Meeting Minutes - and so are the meetings of the FishCat Team. Overall, the activity in the Quality mailing list is growing very fast - check out the MarkMail Archive. Maybe we can invite the team to report on the experience to the wider community; perhaps in our GlassFish Webinar Series? But after we ship GF v3 Prelude! |
A compilation of today's news of interest:
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Arun points out that Rails 2.2 is going to be multi-threaded. That's very good, specially in the context of a JRuby implementation - no need to do magical pooling of instances and the such! And, talking about Arun, his latest TOTD entry (#42!) is a Hello World using JSF. Good to see Arun helping there; the JSF 2.0 spec includes a lot of interesting new features and we are going to need help to provide examples on how to use them! Sebastien writes about how to his OpenESB application uses the OpenOffice Java API to Include MS Office Conversion in his application. Judy reports that there are now 30 FishCAT members around the world that will help improve the quality of the GlassFIsh Server. All of them are non-Sun employees; I count 16 countries at the Quality Portal Home Page. The JavaFX team provides an introduction to the Project Nile, which provides a mechanism to incorporate Adobe graphical assets into JavaFX; check out the Screencast by Jeff Hoffman and the Tutorial Document. |
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The GlassFish Quality group is expanding its community outreach and just started a new Community Acceptance Testing Program for the GlassFish Server (FishCAT). The program is inspired by NetBean's NetCAT program. Please consider participating. Details are at the FishCAT Home Page and in the FishCAT FAQ. Also check out Judy's Announcements for details on how to apply to be in the team - the deadline is August 15th. All this is getting ready for the GlassFish v3 release; more details imminent. |
