[eclipse-dev] Planning Meeting Notes - Feb 2, 2005

[Mike Wilson <Mike_Wilson@xxxxxxxxxx>]

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 Discussion Topics
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 Outreach 
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 Status
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Debug:
- Built to last:
  - bug fixing
- Ease of use:
  - ability to call private methods in Java debugger evaluations
  - "Find Variable..." support in variables view
  - support for escape sequences in Java primitive value editor
    (special characters, octal escapes, hex escapes)
- EclipseCon tutorial prep

Ant:
- Built to last:
  - bug fixing
- EclispeCon talk prep

JDT Core:
- Add CompletionProposal#getDeclaringKey() and 
  CompletionProposal#getKey() API 
- bug fixing (especially on 1.5 front)

JDT UI:
- J2SE 5.0:
  - new quick fixes to create enum, annotation and type parameter
  - finished reimplementation of source actions on ASTRewrite
  - code generation in new type wizards is now ASTRewrite based as well
  - made Change Method Signature J2SE 5.0 aware
  - finished support for multiple type parameters in Infer Generic 
    Type Arguments refactoring
- Refactoring:
  - finished implementation of copy participants
- EclipseCon
  - tutorial and talk preparation

Platform/JDT Text:
- performance:
  - added a new optimized implementation for IDocumentPartitioner:
    FastPartitioner
  - added partition caching to JavaHeuristicScanner
  - above improvements make the JavaIndenterTest 300 times faster
  - tracking down JDT Text performance test problems together with
    Releng (still in progress)
    - made event injection tests more robust
- replaced all usages of deprecated class WorkbenchHelp
- enhanced encoding change dialog to reject invalid encodings
- provided feedback for unified Undo/Redo proposal in
  org.eclipse.core.commands
- provided feedback for component framework proposal
- bug fixing
- bug inbox tracking

Platform UI:
- bug fixing
- 3.0.2 bug fixes
- undo/redo code in HEAD
- commands plug-in work + commands proposal
- code camp at Lotus 
- prepare for EclipseCon
- TableViewer support
- consistency in Properties + Preferences

Platform Core:
- work on preferences import/export APIs
- work on message bundle conversion tools
- content type work - bug fixing and enhancement requests
- split out indexed store code into separate plug-in (to be released
  after this week's integration build)
- basic JNLP support
- making progress on the performance when running out of JARs
- EclipseCon preparation
- bug triage and fixing
- planning

PDE:
- reworked feature editor released into the integration build 
  (more work to follow)
- product configuration editor nearing completion 
  - targeted to be released in the next integration build
- an early review "it (the editor) looks great" - Nick Edgar
- bug fixes

Update:
- feature install wizard currently under redesign
- bug fixes

User Assistance:
- upgraded to Lucene 1.4.3
- the new Help view with the federated search, context and dynamic
  help is in the build
- dynamic context help support required from workbench parts (we will
  provide support for teams where needed)
- patches that add Help>Search menu item and search toolbar combo sent
  to Platform UI

Rel. Eng.:
- rename amd64 to x86_64 with core and swt teams (bug 81722)
- fix and testing for bug 83433
- test builds for local network infrastructure changes
- eclipseCon preparation (documentation, slide review)