[eclipse-dev] Planning Meeting Notes - Oct 6, 2004

[Mike Wilson <Mike_Wilson@xxxxxxxxxx>]

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 Discussion Topics
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 Outreach 
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Text:
- participated in the Eclipse code camp hold at the CH-Open Workshop Days

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 Status
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Debug:
- 3.1 M3 Planning
- design of M3 work items:
  - support for encodings in the console (DBCS support)
  - support for 'toString()' / details in-line in the variables view
  - extensible logical structures (extension point and user defined)
  - customizable hierarchy of debug elements displayed in debug view
    (i.e. specific to a debug implementation/language)
  - integrate monitor information into debug view (potential
    replacement for Threads & Monitors view)
  - re-design of breakpoint groups to allow for composite groups and
    improved usability

Ant:
- 3.1 M3 Planning
- started work on centralization of a shared Ant Model for use by
  Ant View / Editor Outline / Targets Tab

JDT Core:
- first cut of static import support
- implementing new completion API (CompletionRequestor, 
CompletionProposal)
- adding restriction rules per project
- work in progress on search in generics
- work in progress on batch creation of several DOM ASTs
- investigating speed performance of AST converter
- bug fixing

PDE:
- 3.1 M3 plan is posted.
- launcher work:
  - new configuration tab.
  - users can now specify a template config.ini file with which to test
    their application.
- removed dependency on the runtime.compatibility layer for pde/core and
  pde/runtime.
- bug fixing
  - more notably, fixes for PDE's handling of linked libraries/class
    folders when launching a runtime Eclipse app.

Help:
- bug fixes

Update:
- bug fixes and small improvements
- support for custom install handlers accessing org.eclipse.ui classes
- bug fixes
- 3.1 M3 plan is posted.

Intro:
- presentation proposal submitted to EclipseCon

Rel. Eng.
- preparation for eclipse.org infrastructure changes
- enabling "assertAgainst" in performance tests
- bug fixing

JDT/UI:
- bug fixing
- Java 5.0 theme:
  - continued on 5.0 support (generics) for Convert Anonymous Class to
    Nested, Move Instance Method, Move Member Type to New File
    refactorings
  - continued on Augment Raw Container Clients refactoring:
    implemented removal of unnecessary casts
- Built to Last theme:
  - investigated in project/file content type specific content providers
    for refactoring preview page
- Refactoring:
  - worked on removing unused imports when using the refactorings Pull-Up, 

    Push Down, Move Instance Method and Move Member Type to New File

Platform Core:
- discussions surround IPath issues
- investigation into file permissions APIs
- performance work for large-scale applications
- sessions tests are now run as part of the automated tests
- more investigation into registry structure improvements
- work with plug-in dynamicity
- preferences dynamic team has been set up; issues and goals are being
  defined
- planning
- bug fixing

Platform/JDT Text:
- bug fixing
- integrated Change Encoding action with the status editor in case of
  incorrect encoding
- continued work on improved Java properties file support
- continued work on preference consolidation
  - gather overall requirements
  - built prototype for having a "Setting..." entry in the context menus
    that brings the user directly to the right preference page
  - built UI prototype for linked based navigation between preference
    pages and for searchable preferences
- contribute to the team tackling the action contribution issues