[eclipse-dev] Planning Meeting Notes - Oct 5, 2005

[Mike Wilson <Mike_Wilson@xxxxxxxxxx>]

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 Status
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Platform/JDT Text:
- continued to investigate showing of change history
information inside
  textual editors
- Javadoc content assist: investigated push down to
JDT Core
- continued discussion about content assist context
- adopted new Eclipse FS in Platform Text codebase
- collected Quick Assist/Fix push down requirements
and ideas
- bug fixing
- bug inbox tracking

Debug:
- bug fixing
- flexible debug platform
  - continued prototype/design work to support
arbitrary debugger
    implementations that integrate into
the debug platform via a set
    of adapters
  - prepared associated presentation for DSDP
meeting
- code review/changes for breakpoint refactoring test
suite

JDT UI:
- refactoring:
  - worked on rename derived elements refactoring
  - worked on better support for array types
in Infer Type Arguments
- Quick Fix:
  - worked on support applying quick fix to multiple
problems
    - restructured quick fix infrastructure
    - restructured several quick fixes to
support applying them
      multiple times  
- fixed and investigated bugs with content assist
in dialogs
- wrote more test cases for source actions
- participated in discussion:
  - move quick fix infrastructure to platform.text
  - code assist context & new API for javadoc
in jdt.core
  - problems view categorization
  - Common Navigator

Search:
- changed to platform support for dialog size/position

PDE:
- added support for the new Eclipse-JREBundle manifest
header:
  - this header allows plug-ins to explicitly
import/export java.* 
    packages (for JRE development)
- exposed the Eclipse-LazyStart header in the plug-in
editor
- Import-Package:
  - renaming an exported package now results
in the Import-Package
    header of all dependent bundles to be
updated.
  - Find Unused dependencies now flags unused
imported packages
- work in progress:
  - participating in Java search results.
  - provide quickfixes for various plug-in manifest
problems.

Install/Update:
- ongoing work on improved mirroring support (proposal
forthcoming)
- investigation of 3.1.1 downloading problems

User Assistance:
- continuing work on dynamic document serving (code
for conditional
  filtering support works and will be checked
in soon)

Rel. Eng.:
- Equinox builds now live:
  - http://download.eclipse.org/eclipse/equinox/
- bug fixing
- vacation