NetCAT 9.0 team will not recommend +1 voting for Apache NetBeans 9.0 (incubating) GA unless the following quality criteria are met for the GA candidate build:
- 0 bugs or tasks with BLOCKER priority level
- all bugs with CRITICAL priority level fixed or waived
- 0 CA blockers in NetBeans 9.0 Community Acceptance (CA) survey
Bug waiving guidelines
- Waiving means that bug in question does not need to be fixed for the release which is being stabilized at the moment.
- This approach will be used exceptionally to avoid blocking a release due to bugs which were discovered too late in the stabilization phase and need deep investigation and enough time to find the appropriate fix.
- Only the appropriate NetCAT tribe leader responsible for the affected functionality can label a bug with WAIVER tag after reaching consensus within his/her tribe.
- A critical bug can be waived (labeled with WAIVER tag) for 2 releases at maximum.
Community Acceptance survey
- Community Acceptance survey is a 3 weeks long poll in which any NetBeans community member can voice opinion on the quality of main functionality areas of NetBeans GA build candidate.
- Each question allows to select one of the following options: Excellent quality level, Usable quality level and Poor quality level.
- Respondent can choose the third option Poor quality level only in case s/he provides bug number, which s/he considers to be a blocker.
- CA blocker is defined as any open bug with BLOCKER or CRITICAL priority levels which was mentioned by 10% of Community Acceptance survey respondents or more.