[eclipse-dev] Planning Meeting Notes - Nov 16, 2005

[Mike Wilson <Mike_Wilson@xxxxxxxxxx>]

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Outreach 
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Platform/JDT Text:
- Dani gave a talk at http://www.w-jax.de/ about how
to implement a
  custom text editor

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Status
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Platform/JDT Text:
- 3.2 M4 planning
- finished content assist clean up
- continued live annotate work
- wrote content assist tests
- W-JAX 2005 talk and preparation
- bug fixing
- bug inbox tracking
- military service

Debug:
- working on "flexible debug platform" in
branch
- investigated console UTF bug 115587 
  - appears related to SWT bug 106184
- released re-work of Java debug popups based on workbench's
new popup
  dialog
- bug fixing

JDT UI:
- continued working on CVS catchup with scripted refactorings
- reviewed and released new feature in Rename Type
refactoring: "Update
  similarly named fields and methods"
- added CamelCase navigation to dialog fields showing
Java code/names
- started implementation of a model for the JUnit
view
- made actions that open Java wizards API
- more shared images as API
- new indirect static access and qualify static field
access clean up
  (multi quick fix)
- bug fixes
- vacation

Platform UI:
- builds:
  - get org.eclipse.jface*databinding included
in the build
- bug fixing:
  - import/export:
    - roll back to separate menu items
    - Import Projects wizard bugs
  - filter in Show View dialog (consistency and
tests)
  - General > Appearance page bugs
- commands:
  - getting the old action-based extension points
parsed into the new
    format
  - Version numbers: discussion and including
.qualifier
- common navigator:
  - set priorities on API
  - discussed requirements for propagating team
context
  - discussed overriding content providers
- problems view:
  - ongoing improvements with filters + heirarchy
mode + working sets
- JFace:
  - Viewers bug triage
  - documentation for data binding (soon to be
posted on platform-ui-dev)
- logical model support:
  - implementing editor opening strategy overridable
by logical models
- RCP:
  - sorting out JFace and other projects' dependencies
on JCL/Foundation
    and runtime utility classes

User Assistance:
- investigating Solution's Guides and Linkability
as reusable technologies
  in the UA space
- work in progress to enable search participants contributing
content to
  search indexing
- work in progress to enhance CheatSheets use with
modal dialogs
- bug fixes / JUnit tests

Update:
- introduced new install handler: JarDeltaInstallHandler
  - this install handler allows update for jared
plug-ins to be delivered
    with only classes/files that have changed
- work was done on various install path bugs both
for eclipse platform and
  other components/plug-ins
- a few other minor bug fixes

PDE:
- manifest.mf syntax highlighting is released
  - chosen default colors will supposedly be
very in this spring
- 3.2 M4 plan will be up by end of day
- discussions on named target management and execution
environments
- work in progress:
  - automated management of dependencies
  - new schema editor