[eclipse-dev] Planning Meeting Notes - Jan 21, 2003

[Mike Wilson <Mike_Wilson@xxxxxxxxxx>]

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 Discussion Topics
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 Outreach 
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EclipseCon:
- Join us for EclipseCon 2004:
  - February 2-5, 2004 in Anaheim, CA
  - http://www.eclipsecon.org/

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 Status
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Ant:
- bug fixing
- progress on Ant Editor enhancements
- progress on using Ant 1.6 API for internal "Ant
Model"

Debug:
- bug fixing
- step filtering can now be applied to all stepping
functions. The previous
  "Step with Filters" action has been
replaced with a "Use Step Filters"
  toggle that allows filters to be applied to
step into/over/return. 
- generic console now supports output buffering and
max buffer size
- prototype of debug model specific view display/hiding
as debug
  context changes
- working on integration of contributed generic source
lookup facilities
  implementation
- investigating:
  - WTK debugging problems
  - run/debug actions in the context menu
  - impact of Tiger (1.5) on Java debugger
- progress on refactoring support for Java launch
configurations (rename of
  project/main type)
- experimenting with lighweight evaluation result
pop-ups in editor (show
  eval results in pop-up shell to minimize context/view
layout changes)

JDT/Core:
- EclipseCon material ready
- reached consensus on DOM comment support API, implementation
for next
  integration
- DOM AST creation can now be cancelled
- can now create DOM AST on a subset of compilation
unit (_expression_,
  statements, type member decl)
- bug fixing

Team:
- EclipseCon material is ready
- continuing work on Synchronization framework
  - integrating FTP and WebDAV into sync view
  - including sync component in FTP/DAV import/export
wizards
- welcoming new coop Zhiyong into Team
- bug fixing

Platform/UI:
- working on improving performance
- new Progress support in the UI
- RCP 
  - working with external users to establish
needs
- worked with a group of students in Ottawa who were
working on an RCP
  example
- working on EclipseCon demos and talks

Platform/Core:
- added support for grouping jobs
- finished slides for EclipseCon presentation
- met with UI team re: user settings
- good progress on running from jars
- investigating impacts on other plugins
- full team back from vacation
- fixed startup problems when configuration has changed

Rel. Eng.:
- bug fixing (NL tool, download page, e-mail notices)
- configuring and testing new Linux build machine
- testing new mechanism that finds free machines on
which to run JUnit tests

JDT/UI:
- bug fixing
- Eclipse posters and talks
- smart fields (content assist in dialog fields):
  - worked on visual clue that content assist
is available
  - add support for content assist in text entry
fields
  - fixed several bugs with content assists in
combo boxes
  - started to integrate smart fields into existing
dialogs 
    (new wizard, refactoring dialogs, ...)
- Refactoring API:
  - cleaned up Refactoring, RefactoringStatus
and satellite classes
  - worked on clean-up of TextChange class
- AST Rewrite:
  - worked on moving the AST rewriter from JDT/UI
to JDT/Core
  - adapted JDT/UI to "new" AST rewriter
- worked on DOM AST comment effort
- implemented first version of Java background search

Platform/Search:
- reviewed new search API and adapted code accordingly

Platform/Compare:
- bug fixing

Platform/Text:
- preparing Eclipse Con (posters and talks)
- performance work:
  - optimized text hover installation
  - suppressing text hovers while scrolling
- adapted plug-ins to marker annotation specification
changes
- continued: syntax highlighting honors Java project
preferences for task tags 
- bug fixing
  - focus areas: smart pasting, comment and snippet
formatting 

SWT:
- more Eclipse new look and feel 
- work on "TrayIcon" implementation for
Windows and Linux 
- some performance enhancements for Windows Table

- cleaning up browser API 
- preparing for EclipseCon 
- bug fixing 
- released first version of application exporter for
Mac OS X

PDE:
- preparing for EclipseCon
- error log dialog enhanced (can browse log entries
without closing the
  dialog using up/down arrow keys; the dialog
itself is not modal any more)
- update site editor improved (to look good during
the EclipseCon 
  presentation :-)
- Eclipse Forms work continues
- bug fixing

Help:
- preparing for EclipseCon
- continued from the last week: filtering of search
results based on
  activities
- focus on displaying the filtered search results
in the InfoCenter (as
  HTML in the webapp) and in the IDE (in the
search result view)
- bug fixing