Platform Text Component

3.2 Development Effort - Milestone Plans

Milestone M6 Plan

Committed items

() adopt new APIs/features
- apply the migration patch for FindReplaceDialog once the bugs in Platform UI's field assist implementation are fixed
- adopt ICU4J
- [>3.2] switch to new Assert class from Platform
investigate and fix red performance tests
adapt NLS tooling to Eclipse string externalization mechanism (with help from JDT UI)
- NLS hover in Java editor
- hyperlink navigation for NLS keys in the Java editor
- hyperlink navigation for NLS keys in the Java Properties file editor
continue improving content assist
- improve handling of different proposal kinds (Java code, templates, words,...) in the same list:
  - find a better way to configure the processors (improve preference page)
() finish pushing down Quick Assist and spell checking
- support the Quick Assist API introduced with M5
- [3.3] offer spell checking in Text editors
(finish roll-over annotation work that was kicked off during 3.0)
(improve @category tag support, e.g. with additional node in the Outline)

Permanent items

bugzilla inbox tracking
bug fixing
increase correctness test coverage

Absences

Dani: 5 days
Tom: 10 days

Testing

test plan for the 3.2 M6 test pass.

Milestone M5 Plan

Committed items

Cross-team issues
- discuss tripple-click support in StyledText with Platform SWT
  ⇒ there will be no SWT support for this for 3.2
- discuss field assistance API with Platform UI
adopt new APIs/features
- [>3.2] surface mixed font support
- field assistance
  The field assist API has been settled together with Platform UI for M5 and the JFace content assist code in Platform Text has been deprecated. A migration patch for FindReplaceDialog is ready but will be committed after M5 because there are still some bugs to fix in Platform UI's field assist implementation.
- [3.2 M6] ICU4J
  The ICU4J plug-in is not yet finalized in the builds.
- [3.2 M6] (new Assert class from Platform)
- (new ListenerList class from Platform)
undo manager improvements (see bug 89599 and bug 93955)
finish API for live annotate (embedding of history information into the editor)
revisit document creation and setup
provide folding structure API (see bug 66440)
initial support for @category tag
investigate and fix red performance tests
continue improving content assist
- improve handling of different proposal kinds (Java code, templates, words,...) in the same list:
  - sorting/relevance issue
  - [3.2 M6] find a better way to configure the processors (improve preference page)
continue pushing down spell checking
- adopt and push down Quick Assist and Quick Fix infrastructure
- [3.2 M6] (offer spell checking in Text editors)
[3.2 M6] (investigate new look and feel for Find / Replace)
[>3.2] (investigate improving text editor framework for RCP)

Permanent items

bugzilla inbox tracking
bug fixing
increase correctness test coverage

Absences

Dani: 4 days
Tom: 10 days
public holidays: 2

Testing

test plan for the 3.2 M5 test pass.

Milestone M4 Plan

Committed items

[3.2 M5] Cross-team issues
- discuss text drag & drop support with SWT
  ⇒ SWT is working on this support now
- [3.2 M5] discuss tripple-click support in StyledText with SWT
- adopt new API in StyledText which allows to reuse StyleRanges
investigate showing categories in Java Outline
prepare and give W-JAX 2005 talk
embedding of history information (user, change notes, ...) into the editor
[3.2 M5] continue improving content assist
- improve handling of different proposal kinds (Java code, templates, words,...) in the same list:
  - sorting/relevance issue
  - find a better way to configure the processors (improve preference page)
[3.2 M5] continue pushing down spell checking
- adopt and push down Quick Assist and Quick Fix infrastructure
- (offer spell checking in Text editors)
adopt Platform UI's new PopupDialog
adopt JDT Core handling CUs without *.java ending (bug 71460)
leverage JDT Core support to extract Javadoc from attached HTML
- add support to Javadoc access helper
- verify that helper works in Javadoc hover
- verify new support in code assist
leverage JDT Core support to get Javadoc region for an IMember
[>3.2] (introduce LTK UI plug-in)
use existing command IDs which contain 'jdt'
[3.2 M5] (start undo manager rework) (see bug 89599)

Permanent items

bugzilla inbox tracking
bug fixing
increase correctness test coverage

Absences

Dani: 1 day conference
Tom: 15 days military service

Testing

test plan for the 3.2 M4 test pass.

Milestone M3 Plan

Committed items

Cross-team issues
- discuss text drag & drop support with SWT
- discuss tripple-click support in StyledText with SWT
prepare W-JAX 2005 talk
investigate embedding of history information (user, change notes, ...) into the editor (time boxed: 3 days)
continue improving content assist
- work with JDT Core to push down Javadoc content assist
- improve handling of different proposal kinds (Java code, templates, words,...) in the same list:
  - polish the new code and API
  - work together with JDT Core on content assist context API
  - sorting/relevance issue
  - work on the LRU history
  - provide a completion processor for Java types
  - find a better way to configure the processors (improve preference page)
continue pushing down spell checking
- adopt and push down Quick Assist and Quick Fix infrastructure
- [3.2 M4] offer spell checking in Text editors
Investigate Java outline for Java files from a repository
([3.2 M4] Start undo manager rework) (see bug 89599)
Code cleanup
- remove synchronization around ICompilationUnit.reconcile(...) in org.eclipse.jdt.ui
- adopt new Eclipse FS (see bug 106176)

Permanent items

bugzilla inbox tracking
bug fixing
increase correctness test coverage

Absences

Dani: 17 days

Testing

test plan for the 3.2 M3 test pass.

Milestone M2 Plan

Committed items

3.2 planning
[3.2 M3] Cross-team issues
- discuss with JDT Core who provides the extension-point for code assist (see also below)
- [3.2 M3] discuss text drag & drop support with SWT
- [3.2 M3] discuss tripple-click support in StyledText with SWT
[3.2 M3] Start improving content assist
- discuss with JDT Core who provides the extension-point for code assist
- allow to plug-in content assist processors
- allow to trigger each content assist processor (templates, types, words,...) via command
- provide a word completion processor as proof-of-concept
- [3.2 M3] improve handling of different proposal kinds (Java code, templates, words,...) in the same list:
  - [3.2 M3] sorting/relevance issue
  - UI/core layer issues (images and labels)
  - [3.2 M3] LRU history
  - [3.2 M3] allow users to control this via preferences
[3.2 M3] Start pushing down spell checking
- [3.2 M3] adopt and push down Quick Assist and Quick Fix infrastructure
- push down annotation hovering
- offer annotation hovering in Text editors
- push down annotation navigation
- [3.2 M3] offer spell checking in Text editors
[3.2 M3 or M4] Start undo manager rework (see bug 89599)
Code cleanup
- finalize the folding commands and implementations that were introduced in M1

Absences

Tom: 1 days
½ public holiday

Testing

test plan for the 3.2 M2 test pass.

Milestone M1 Plan

Absences

Tom: 12 days
Dani: 10 days
1 public holiday

Testing

test plan for the 3.2 M1 test pass.

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Milestone M6 Plan

Top items

Committed items

() adopt new APIs/features

investigate and fix red performance tests

adapt NLS tooling to Eclipse string externalization mechanism (with help from JDT UI)

continue improving content assist

() finish pushing down Quick Assist and spell checking

(finish roll-over annotation work that was kicked off during 3.0)

(improve @category tag support, e.g. with additional node in the Outline)

Permanent items

Absences

Testing

Milestone M5 Plan

Top items

Committed items

Cross-team issues

adopt new APIs/features

undo manager improvements (see bug 89599 and bug 93955)

finish API for live annotate (embedding of history information into the editor)

revisit document creation and setup

provide folding structure API (see bug 66440)

initial support for @category tag

investigate and fix red performance tests

continue improving content assist

continue pushing down spell checking

[3.2 M6] (investigate new look and feel for Find / Replace)

[>3.2] (investigate improving text editor framework for RCP)

Permanent items

Absences

Testing

Milestone M4 Plan

Top items

Committed items

[3.2 M5] Cross-team issues

investigate showing categories in Java Outline

prepare and give W-JAX 2005 talk

embedding of history information (user, change notes, ...) into the editor

[3.2 M5] continue improving content assist

[3.2 M5] continue pushing down spell checking

adopt Platform UI's new PopupDialog

adopt JDT Core handling CUs without *.java ending (bug 71460)

leverage JDT Core support to extract Javadoc from attached HTML

leverage JDT Core support to get Javadoc region for an IMember

[>3.2] (introduce LTK UI plug-in)

[3.2 M5] (start undo manager rework) (see bug 89599)

Permanent items

Absences

Testing

Milestone M3 Plan

Top items

Committed items

Cross-team issues

prepare W-JAX 2005 talk

investigate embedding of history information (user, change notes, ...) into the editor (time boxed: 3 days)

continue improving content assist

continue pushing down spell checking

Investigate Java outline for Java files from a repository

([3.2 M4] Start undo manager rework) (see bug 89599)

Code cleanup

Permanent items

Absences

Testing

Milestone M2 Plan

Top items

Committed items

3.2 planning

[3.2 M3] Cross-team issues

[3.2 M3] Start improving content assist

[3.2 M3] Start pushing down spell checking

[3.2 M3 or M4] Start undo manager rework (see bug 89599)

Code cleanup

Absences

Testing

Milestone M1 Plan

Top items

Absences

Testing