Article | Milestone OR Daily Builds...

Hey,

I am back after a long time, I was blogging all about NetBeans over my other blog, so thought of not coming back here. But, as NetCAT has begun and I am running Daily Builds, Milestone to review and give feedback through this wonderful program.

I will present a weekly report of what I experience during each week on the other blog- NetBeans Guru!

I wanted to wait for 1 week, just as I said, but couldn't resist and here, I am sharing my first ever experiences with the Daily Builds, in the form of an article...I downloaded, installed, booted (NetBeans Dev 200807101204) to see a hell lot of new things. Better Splash Screen than 6.1 and 6.5 M1, Quick Search Toolbar and some cool improvisations!

Seriously, felt a lot better than using 6.5 Milestone 1, and I must say its better to stick to Beta, RC and FCS, for working on projects. I would never ever work on a real project using Milestones. They are not stable, and daily builds provide more stability and new features than Milestones. Though, daily builds may also get unstable in between, as they are also under continuous development, refer Hudson, Fisheye.

As I am participating for the 1st time in NetCAT, I have mixed reactions and would like to experience few more weeks before I can jump to any conclusion, though people there, do recommend to use Daily builds, during such testing periods, as Milestones tend to be out-of-date quickly. Even coordinator suggested to download daily builds 2-3 times a week, if you want to seriously participate, as so many issues are getting filed every day in each defined domain, and fixes are also being scheduled side-by-side.

Feature Freeze took place on Monday, and I think we need to wait before we could get hands on the next stable dev-build!