Keri rightfully reminded me that I should cross-post to the other NB mailing lists as well because this can be of general interest. NetBeans module owners have agreed to set the freeze day for the next release at the end of this month, October 30, 2000. All module owners who spoke up voted to give this release the version number 3.1. The above of course applies only to the core and modules which are included in the standard NetBeans distribution.
Developers are free to do anything they want in experimental modules.
Note there is a consensus on nbdev to include the scripting and ant integration module in NetBeans 3.1. We will modify the build script to bundle these two modules by default. Although we don't know how long it will take to stabilize code in the release31 branch, I believe the final release 3.1 can be made before Christmas time. I volunteer to act as the NB 3.1 release coordinator. Trung PS the CVS branch name for NB 3.0 was stable30.