[eclipse-dev] Planning Meeting Notes - August Oct 15, 2003

[Mike Wilson <Mike_Wilson@xxxxxxxxxx>]

(Several teams did not send in status.)

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 Discussion Topics
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Rel Eng:
- 3.0 M4 build retrospective

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 Outreach 
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- Zurich lab attended the Eclipse Plug-in Clinic at
the Swiss Workshop Days
  for two complete days.
  - pictures at:  http://www.weinand.org/CampEclipse
- Kai gave a half-day tutorial about extending eclipse
at the Swiss Workshop
  Days
- Erich gave a talk at the Technical University of
Vienna: "Eclipse More
  Than a Java IDE"

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 Status
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Rel Eng:
- bug fixing
- builds now use plug-ins and startup.jar from 3.0
M4
- investigate ways to determine which teams have submitted
change other than
  from map files
- article on automating builds ongoing

Platform/JDT Text:
- finished M4
- bug fixing:
  - Javadoc formatting performance problems solved
  - still working on linked resources support
for file buffers
- started planning M5
- continued Javadoc spell checking

JDT UI:
- finished M4
- bug fixing
- started planning M5

Platform Core:
- Concurrency:
  - bug fixing
  - preferences were added for future use to
allow for trade-offs between
    concurrent operations and user's hardware
performance
- Xerces:
  - sent mail to eclipse-dev asking people to
begin converting to JAXP
  - have converted most of the Platform/Core
code to JAXP
- other
  - released new code using java.nio classes
to deal with the workspace lock file
  - working on M5 milestone plan