Re: [eclipse-dev] Planning Meeting Notes - Aug 18, 2004

[Nick Edgar <Nick_Edgar@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Platform UI
- M2 plan posted
- emphasis on performance testing and investigation for M2
- bug fixing 3.0.1
- vacations
- 3.1 planning





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Debug 

- Continuing I/O console implementation. Completed first code review. 
-  Investigating ways to deal with large numbers of launch configurations 
in the launch dialog 
-  3.0.1 experimentation and fix for run menu action ordering (
https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=55804) 
-  Bug fixing 
-  3.1 Planning 

Ant 

- Performance tests 
-  Leak testing 
-  3.0.1 builder bug 
-  Code folding preferences for the Ant editor 


Core: 

- 3.1 planning 
- 3.0.1 fixing -> implementation of new file encoding APIs 
- investigation of problems with large-scale applications



PDE: 

- More 3.0.1 defects fixed (among them a problem with launch when 
empty/incomplete manifests are present) 
- M2 plan is up - currently focusing on RCP tooling 

Update: 

- Investigating moving some portion of the feature install task into the 
background 

Help: 
- Testing help with Windows SP2 (there are some IE issues that need to be 
resolved, but overall Help works well) 


Platform/JDT Text:


- continued performance testing 
        - increased number of performance tests to close to 20 
                - implemented first mouse driven tests 
                - scrolling and selection tests covering paint performance 

        - extended performance test infrastructure with result evaluation 
                - performance tests can be run and evaluated locally 
                - support red/green result presentation 
- planning 
- 3.0.1 bug fixing 
- started working on editor support for 1.5 



Mac OS X: 

- identifying Mac OS 10.4 (Tiger) and Java 1.5 (Tiger) issues 
- investigating launching issues with SWT apps on Mac OS X (eliminating 
java_swt) 
- working on performance tests for Mac OS X 

Compare/Patch: 

- switching to TextBuffer infrastructure 
- fixing validate/edit issues 
- started on improving Patch UI 

JDT/UI: 

- 3.0.1 bug fixing 
- M1 testing & fixing 
- 3.1 & M2 planning 
- continued work on "Genericize Collection Usages" refactoring 
  o started implementing type constraint infrastructure with improved 
    performance and memory characteristics. 
- investigated refactorings wrt. J2SE 5.0 conformance 
  o wrote test cases for inline temp, promote temp, rename temp, self 
    encapsulate field and surround with try refactorings that make 
    use of new J2SE 5.0 features 
- implemented automatic building of project before serial version UID 
  generation and improved feedback in UI 
- investigated use of launch infrastructure to run serial version UID 
  generation in separate VM