[eclipse-dev] Planning Meeting Notes - Apr 27, 2004

[Mike Wilson <Mike_Wilson@xxxxxxxxxx>]

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 Discussion Topics
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Core/OSGi:
- Deprecations

Platform UI:
- no more new features?
- staged freeze for M9

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 Outreach 
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 Status
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Platform UI:
- M9 bug fixing
- Linux performance
- API review
- background jobs dynamic team
- performance
  - startup
  - perspective switching
- UI polish
- R2.1 presentation plug-in

Rel Eng:
- internal infrastructure work: 
  - testing build mechanism
  - initial IES build delivery
  - collecting feedback
  - bug fixing

Platform/JDT Text:
- improved backspace to support and revert smart typing aids
  (e.g. smart semicolon/brace)
- improved Mark Occurrences
  - it is now user configurable which kinds of occurrences should
    be highlighted (Window>Preferences>Java>Editor>Occurrences)
  - added a tool bar button to quickly enable/disable occurrence
    highlighting
- released initial version of semantic highlighting
  - Window>Preferences>Java>Editor>Semantic Highlighting
- continued performance work in the context of semantic highlighting
  in Java editor
- continued infrastructural and UI work for folded documents:
  - improved visual presentation of folding control
  - adapted find/replace, and cut/copy/paste
  - improved visual stability when modifying the projection annotation
    model from UI and reconciling threads
  - performance profiling and optimization
- started work on headless annotation model support
- bug fixing

JDT/UI:
- Refactoring:
  - added content assist support to extract local variable and 
    convert local variable to field.
  - improved camel case handling of variable names for content 
    assist in refactoring dialogs
  - improved import handling of Move CU refactoring (no generation
    of star imports anymore).
  - worked on supporting different destination types in extract method
- added quick fixes to adapt a field's declaration type or a method
  return type
- implemented "Search Again" for NLS search
- call hierarchy now ignores matches in Javadocs
- search:
  - worked on search result filters

LTK:
- added content stamp support to text change infrastructure. This improves
  undo support for different text changes working on the same file.

Platform/Search:
- improved UI update behavior for lots of search matches

Platform/UI:
- more work on new Progress View and status bar proxy
- added content type info to resource info property page

JDT Core:
- 1.5 front: Cheetah-04 made available
  - added support for bridge methods (overriding parameterized methods)
  - tuned wildcard semantics (now captures the associated type
    variable bounds)
  - added support to diagnose ambiguous parameterized method invocations
- 3.0 front: 
  - bug fixing
  - investigated further container initialization issues
     --> feels like PDE model refresh bug
  - investigation on usage of new I/O are pretty disappointing, no
    performance benefit
  - working on source formatter improvements

Core:
- locking down APIs
- continued work to remove dependency on compatibility layer
- started looking at performance
- bug fixing

Team/CVS:
- working on the synchronize APIs
- progress support work that will take advantage of the new progress
  APIs for keeping background tasks around.
- SSH2 password caching improvements
- releng plug-in fixes
- bug fixing