Hello Helmut,
yes, the news is true. The CA survey is part of every release and rules are publicly available in advance. Please read "Community Acceptance (CA) survey" section [1] in the NetCAT 6.7 Plan which clearly defines what to do with results from this research. In particular it states that if one issue is selected by more than 20% of respondents it becomes automatically a showstopper which must be fixed prior to releasing FCS. If this does not happen, we interpret it as an approval for the release. Can you share with us your own proposal what numbers are good/bad enough to release/not release? However, I hope you understand we obviously can't fix every bug that some person feels strongly about otherwise we could end up in never ending stabilization phase. :-)
[1]
http://wiki.netbeans.org/NB67NetCAT#section-NB67NetCAT-CommunityAcceptanceCASurvey In addition to that after this CA survey we decided to contact all respondents who were very critical about performance problems or quality in general as a follow-up and you were one of these people. Why didn't you answer our e-mail?
Best regards,
-Jirka
hjuskewycz wrote:
> The big headline is: NetBeans Community Approves NetBeans 6.7 for Prime Time Release
>
> After I seeing the results (
http://qa.netbeans.org/processes/cat/67/ca_results.html), I was wondering if this is the headline is for another survey ...
>
> The results for the most important features are shocking! Nearly every 1/10 thinks that NetBeans isn't ready for prime time:
>
> Editor Improvements: 10,4%
> Performance Improvements: 9,7%
> Overall Quality: 10,4%
>
> And what about the rest? It's notable that the rest is better regarding the show stopper, but instead 40-50% don't use the feature.
> I would interpret the survey that the new release isn't what the user wanted. They got features which they don't use and the already existing features aren't the quality they expected.
>
> Please NetBeans team don't lie to yourself and to the readers, the survey is mixed at best, but doesn't clearly speak for NetBeans 6.7. If my post is too harsh, I am sorry. But this kind of marketing is more MS style, and I really don't like it.
