The most buzz about NetBeans 3.4.1 "Merak" is that this release should not have
happened, because Sun Microsystems officially stated, that since most efforts
are now put into the ongoing 4.0 "Yogjakarta" release, it doesn't consider to
release any maintenance updates to 3.4 (such as 3.3.1 or 3.3.2 in the past).
However Sun Microsystems oficially proposed that if volunteer Release
Coordinator comes along, it will give some amount of human time and the
necessary machine resources to such release. I decided to become one, and now we
are coming to what is to be a first-timer in netbeans.org world - volunteer
NetBeans release - the Merak. Hopefully the most stable NetBeans release ever
before.
I'd like to thank everybody involved in bugfixing,
commiting, feedback gathering and technical issues. These are mostly emloyed by
Sun NetBeans developers, who cut off some their private time to invest into
NetBeans even more than they are doing now coding the 4.0 release. However
the outside-Sun people also helped much in preparing the Merak release, so
I hope for a closer union between us and them, between all of us,
NetBeans developers.
Sincerely yours,
Maxym Mykhalchuk
This page was maintained by
(release coordinator for NB3.4).
Now this page is mantained by
(volunteer NB3.4.1
webmaster) and
(release coordinator for
NB3.4.1).
