The NetBeans Community Acceptance Team (NetCAT) was created to facilitate wide community participation in validating the quality of the NetBeans distributions. The same principles are now being applied to two new areas: Bug Fixing and New Development

The new programs are
NetFIX
(mailing list)

and

NetDEV
(mailing list).
In both cases the principle is to encourage
participation through a support group and some
direct help from more experienced developers.

NetCAT has been very successful and we applied it to
GlassFish
via FishCAT
(Wiki,
entries@TA)
In the past we had explored ideas like
“adopt-a-bug” and “starter bugs” for GlassFish;
perhaps the NetFIX and NetDEV ideas would be applicable too.

Check the project websites and also see
Toni’s post
for more details.