Hello
The current NG boards have been designed with this in mind... 2 of the relevand signals out of the serial port are going to the reset pin... i was testing this for a bit before releasing the board but there are some pieces of software that can't stop messing with DTR/CTS even when you tell them not to....
I decided not to have the resistors mounted because It would have generated too much support work in helping beginners to understand what was (not) wrong with their boards...
In a previous board I had designed the reset was automatic but certain pieces of software kept resetting it and I had to include a jumper to disable the automatic reset....
Massimo
we will include it in a future board/IDE once we have debugged it properly...