Nick Sieger: Version Control + Bug Tracking Survey + NBPythondo what you lovetag:blog.nicksieger.com,2005:TypoTypo2008-07-08T18:10:01+00:00Nick Siegerurn:uuid:e57a84b2-4955-4eeb-83bd-dadd74554ba12008-07-08T18:10:01+00:002008-07-08T18:10:01+00:00Version Control + Bug Tracking Survey + NBPython<p>At Sun, I work in the Developer Tools and Services group, home of NetBeans, Sun Studio, and a bunch of other developer-focused tools. The <a href="http://code.network.com/invite/">project I’m working on</a> is a developer collaboration site where source code version control and bug tracking are essential components.</p>
<p>Of course, we can’t call ourselves programmers if we’ve never gotten into a <a href="http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en/articles/mailing-list-faq/bikeshed.html">bikeshed</a> argument about which VC or bug tracking system is best, so we’ve <a href="http://www.surveymonkey.com/s.aspx?sm=xU6w8ry3_2f3IGfQZEn7s1hg_3d_3d">set up a survey for you to vent your opinions on the topic</a>. Check it out, just two simple questions, it will take you all of 10 seconds to respond. I’ll publish or point to results in a week or two after the number of responses has grown above level of statistical significance. Thanks in advance for your votes!</p>
<p>In loosely-related news, <a href="http://www.sauria.com/blog/" title="Ted Leung on the Air">Ted Leung</a> and <a href="http://fwierzbicki.blogspot.com/" title="Frank Wierzbicki's Weblog">Frank Wierzbicki</a> announced at <a href="http://www.europython.org/">EuroPython</a> today that Python (and Jython) will be fully supported in a future version of NetBeans, targeting the end of the year for end-user functionality. See <a href="http://koberoi.com/2008/07/08/print-netbeans-python-nbpython-project/">Kuldip Oberoi’s</a> announcement for more details.</p>
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<p>What’s great about this is that the NetBeans team has decided to embrace an <a href="https://nbpython.dev.java.net/">existing community effort</a> started by <a href="http://codesnakes.blogspot.com/">Allan Davis</a>, and they’re looking for contributors, so if you dabble in Java but would rather be writing Python, maybe you can <a href="https://nbpython.dev.java.net/servlets/ProjectMailingListList">step up and help them out</a>!</p>