[eclipse-dev] Planning Meeting Notes - August Sept 17, 2003

[Mike Wilson <Mike_Wilson@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Note:
- We are looking for ways to increase the value of
the weekly status meeting.
  Some suggestions have been sent in already,
but if anyone else has good
  ideas, please send them to McQ.

Outreach: 
- Dirk gave a talk at OO-DACH conference. 
  Title: Contributing to Eclipse

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Status
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Debug:
- initial review of "object browser" API
is complete (i.e. support to display logical
  view of objects in the Java debugger). Propose
to change terminology to 
  "Display Logical Structure"
- improved variable expansion/selection memory in
the variables view
- new art work for environment variables tab and enable/disable
breakpoint actions
- re-work of launch variables is in progress (now
called string substitution support)
- console plug-in has been created, but is not yet
in use by debugger (we need to get
  the plug-in added to the build)
- display view, Conditional breakpoint editor, and
Snippet editor now inherit colors
  of Java editor
- bug fixing

Ant:
- target filtering in Ant editor outline
- target sorting in Ant editor outline
- ability to specify VM args and working directory
for Ant in seperate VM
- bug fixing

JDT/UI:
- bug fixing
- moved text edit infrastructure to org.eclipse.text
- worked on moving static member types

Search:
- continued working on new generic search
- implemented prototype of responsive Java search

Platform/JDT Text:
  - bug fixing
  - smart tab and improved auto indent strategy
released
  - working version of Javadoc formatting
  - rcp version based on M2 released
  - regex supported by Search, about to be integrated
into Find/Replace
  - started work on Javadoc spell checking

Rel Eng:
- writing an article  with Pascal (Platform Core)
on setting up an automated
  build system using org.eclipse.pde.build

Help:
- one more fix for 2.1.2 - approved by the team in
question
- new feature - it is possible to switch locales to
choices other than the
  default browser locale
- looking at how roles will affect help

Update:
- fixing long-standing hard defects
- more work on partial updates (plug-in deltas)
- declaring success on the site mirroring tool 
- writing JUnit tests for the site mirroring and command
line applications
- thinking about OSGi impact on Update
- thinking about rewriting Update Core to support
only the currently used
  functionality

PDE:
- continuing editor rework - attacking update site
editor first because has
  the most problems
- need to make the feature/site developing story more
flexible and powerful
  (currently too restricted - cannot take an
existing site and start working
  on it)
- reviewing PDE in context of OSGi runtime - the ability
to tolerate it as
  well as the opportunities for tooling

JDT/Core:
- DOM serialization (source generation) is harder
than predicted, since the
  existing support (in JDT/UI) was really tied
with refactoring use cases.
  We need a full story in the same flavor.
- Background auto-build support is completed. The
JavaModel will only be
  updated during POST_CHANGE notification, and
as a consequence will never
  raise Java deltas during PRE_AUTO_BUILD notification
stages as it used to be.
  This is a breaking change, conditionned by
this evolution. So far clients
  seem not affected. We will post a patch for
further assessment.
- Local inner types (and anonymous) are now officially
enabled as elements in
  the JavaModel. Open on selection will correctly
finds these new elements,
  still work to do for type hierarchies (might
be quite expensive for subtype
  hierarchies since need to parse/resolve entire
units). Interestingly, UI
  needs very little adjustements to this addition
(except for rendering
  anonymous type names).
- Search performance improvements achieved by cleaning
our implementation.
- Code formatter is converting to generating text
edits (instead of entire
  formatted source).
- Javadoc diagnosis making progress. We should soon
be able to provide problems
  during reconcile.
- JDT/Core tests are now passing on Linux platform.
Soon to be enabled in build
  process.

Platform UI:
- M4 plan posted
- absorbing team restructuring
- RCP: transitioning work to new owner, merging in
changes between M2 and now,
  investigating OSGi impact
- Scalability: Roles spike-through and demo went well.
 It was very helpful to
  have representatives from down-stream teams
here.
- UI Guidelines: in progress
- Instrumentation: focus on getting support into the
I-builds for collecting
  preferences and info about perspective/view
usage and layout.