[eclipse-dev] Planning Meeting Notes - Mar 5, 2008

[Mike Wilson <Mike_Wilson@xxxxxxxxxx>]

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 Discussion Topic
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Equinox:
- revisit the decision for accessing discourage packages; for Eclipse
  Platform are we only concerned about bundles within the RCP subset
  that access discourage packages?  Also, PDE does not currently flag
  when internal API classes are used within an extension
  (see https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=221319).
  This unfortunately makes RCP unusable in "strict" mode.  Should we
  try to address this for 3.4?

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 Status
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JDT APT:
- vacation, mostly
- JSR269 testing
- APT changes resulting from compiler changes in bug 196200
- inbox, newsgroups, Bugzilla

Debug:
- added source map feature to execution environment description files
  (bug 217930)
- preparing tutorials for EclipseCon
- bug fixing & triage

PDE:
- API tooling:
  - performance fixes for API analysis builder
  - EclipseCon preparation
  - bug fixing
- work on supporting core-style identifiers for schema identifier
  attributes
- bug fixing & triage

Platform UI:
- decorator performance work (with JDT UI)
- opening new marker view instances prompt for view name
- new core expression variable sources can now be added through an
  extension point
- improved "show in" support (work in progress)
- updated extension points to new id support where possible
- improved stability of working sets and themes
- added three new colors to JFacePreferences (used for label decorations)
- improvements and bug fixing in status/error dialog and the status
  framework

JDT Core:
- keep working on comment formatter
- reworking compiler option for unnecessary unchecked exceptions to limit
  it to Throwable and Exception
- fix performance issue with type hierarchy when a linked jar was missing
- working on Java workspace scope performance
- tested concurrent compiler internally to the team
- discussion about whether external library folders should be editable
  or not
- bug fixing

Platform Text and JDT Text:
- Javadoc view polish: image and back/forward navigation
- API work for hovers: AbstractInformationControl
- breadcrumb view discussions
- inbox tracking
- bug fixing

JDT UI:
- worked with platform UI on a better fix for overlay image leaking
- working with platform on adding styled labels to
  FilteredItemSelectionDialog
- 'concatenate string' quick assist now supports both StringBuffer and
  StringBuilder
- added UI for search for type references in 'instance of' tests.
- fixed UI to support external class folders with variable
- work on reporting affected binaries in refactorings
- API work
- bug fixing

Equinox:
- p2:
  - graduated
  - code moved
  - new bugzilla component (Equinox/p2)
  - integration into the SDK this week
- security:
  - adding UI pieces to secure storage -- the view to explore the
    default storage and the preference page
- EclipseCon preparation
- bug triage
- bug fixing

Workspace:
- inbox tracking
- bug fixing for M6
- system values in proxy (bug 180921) in progress
- the hunk compare editor in progress

Performance:
- tests results verification:
  - 3.4:
    - No results as the database was shutdown
  - 3.3.2:
    - *all* tests of M20080221-1800 vs 20080128-1721:
      - No noticeable regression since 3.3.1