[eclipse-dev] Planning Meeting Notes - 18 Jan 2012

[Curtis Windatt <Curtis_Windatt@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Planning Meeting Notes
18 January 2012

Discussion topic:
-When to move 4.2 build as primary

JDT UI, JDT Text
- started to adopt null field reference feature from JDT Core
- bug fixing
- sick leave

Ant
- good for 3.7.2
- bug fixing

Debug
- merged generified code for JDT debug to master, completing testing
- detail formatters can now be exported by themselves - https://bugs.eclipse.org/224815
- good for 3.7.2
- bug fixing

SWT
- Browser is working well with WebKitGTK 1.6.x, only one Browser fix was
required to address a change in the native component
- 3.8-stream bug fixing

PDE:
- 3.7.2 complete
- Tracing preference page available in SDK and for inclusion in products
- Bug fixing
- Ankur has moved to Jazz work

Releng:
-many test builds to switch 4.2 build to primary.  Test results look
good so far. Few adjustments needed.
-test builds to run tests on Java 7 (Windows)
-extra curricular open source activities: Technical reviewer for a couple
of chapters for Architecture of Open Source Applications, met with a representative
for Girl Develop IT Ottawa on the weekend to teach a Git/Eclipse class
later on this year

Performance:  
- Performance results are not still getting
generated. (368949)
- Filed 368935, 368937 and 368939 looking at the DB.

JDT/Core
- Wrapped up code review and polish work
for resource leak analysis
  to minimize false positives. (361407 362331 362332 360908 361073
358903)
- Made good progress on null analysis for fields. (247564)
- Backport for 3.7.2 RC2 of couple of critical fixes made last week   
- Still a few items in flight for M5.
- Inbox tracking, newsgroups, bug fixes,
- Vacation.

Platform Workspace:
- inbox tracking
- new perf regressions to investigate in core.resources (bug 368935 and
bug 368937)
- Tomek is away till Jan 27