[eclipse-dev] Planning Meeting Notes - Jan 11, 2006

[Mike Wilson <Mike_Wilson@xxxxxxxxxx>]

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 Discussion Topics
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Rel Eng.:
- Should our features be changed to point to a new
update site?  
  Currently all features point to the http://update.eclipse.org/updates/3.0
  which is not useful.  We can't collocate
3.0, 3.1.x and 3.2 updates in the
  same site. Update does not provide a mechanism
to install new a new
  startup.jar and eclipse executable.
  - https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=123165
- On a related note, what is the plan for the Callisto
release with respect
  to update jars.  Currently, we copy update
jars and update the site.xml
  for other projects that request to be included
the platform update site.
  Is there going to be a master update site for
Callisto or will there be a
  more distributed approach?
  - https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=109438

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 Status
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Debug:
- bug triage and fixing
- M5 planning
- work on asynchronous tree viewer to leverage SWT.VIRTUAL
tree support
- experimenting with toolbar in launch dialog tree
viewer and filter
  support for launch configs and launch config
types
- EclipseCon prep

JDT UI:
- refactorings:
  - working on new 'Introduce indirection' refactoring
  - made all JDT refactorings except reorg scripting
aware; refactoring
    scripts can now be constructed from
the Refactoring project property
    page and later be applied via Refactor
-> Apply refactorings...
  - minor improvements in the JAR import wizard
(new JAR file can be
    renamed to old name)
  - cleanup and documentation of refactoring
history API
- JUnit:
  - worked on model support for JUnit
- search:
  - made Java and File search window working
set aware
- bug fixes:
  - build path wizard
  - clean up wizard
  - visibility rewriting in refactoring
  - JAR Packager
  - search dialog pages, handling of 'Enclosing
project' scope

Platform/JDT Text:
- 3.1.2 testing
- revisited document creation and setup
- enabled rulers for non-workspace files
- added basic support for @category tag
- moved content assist extension point entirely to
JDT UI plug-in
  (API clean up)
- investigated performance impact of StyledText::setRedraw
calls in the
  text viewers (bugs 117507 and 121049)
- finishing up UI part of the Revision information
ruler (in progress, 
  bug 114333)
- more API clean up in JavaContentAssistInvocationContext
- bug fixing
- bugzilla inbox tracking

Workspace:
- API for comparing URIs (URIUtil#equals)
- API to get a java.io.File from an IFileStore (IFileStore#toLocalFile)
- polishing support for linked resources at arbitrary
depth
- support for projects with overlapping file system
locations
- fixing problems with case sensitivity on Windows
(43623, 119705, 122825)
- operation validation framework
- generic history view improvements
- CVS operations consult model providers to determine
operation scope
- CVS work-in-progress update support is now enabled
by default

Rel. Eng.:
- 3.1.2 end-game
- troubleshooting network issues in build lab blocking
performance
  baseline reruns
- testing mechanism changes for bugs:  121882,
121883, 123111.  Aim to have
  in production by end of week

User Assistance:
- work continues on enhancing cheat sheets: scalability
enhancements,
  saving state into a named file, opening cheat
sheets from files
- command enhancements to support linkability all
in HEAD thanks to good
  people from the UI team
- focus now on adding concrete commands to various
plug-ins that do useful
  things
- adding linkability support in various places (active
help, cheat sheets)
- work near completion on remote help (being able
to point at the
  documentation installed remotely
- wrapping up the XHTML capability made available
in M4
- new capabilities added to the Form widget (busy
state animation,
  two-row header, parent background rendering)
- design work on creating generic Welcome implementation
with dynamic
  positioning abilities and augmenting the intro
framework to support this
- prototype implementation of the new generic Welcome

PDE:
- target management work is 90% in Tuesday build:
  - new target profile wizard to create workspace
profiles
  - new extension point to register profiles
  - new editor to edit the profiles
  - profile switching on the target platform
preference page
- XHTML conversion tool almost done and will be available
for documentation
  work (allows quick conversion from existing
Help documents from HTML to
  XHTML)
- plug-in export wizard enhanced to expose JNLP and
JAR signing options

Platform UI:
- general:
  - trim dragging polish
  - tabbed property view
  - investigating splash treatments
  - bug triage
  - news group reading
  - prepare and give Eclipse Workbench Tutorial
to test group of students
  - others away on vacation still
- builds:
  - testing 3.1.2
- commands:
  - bug fixing
- common navigator:
  - bug fixing
  - API cleanup
- problems view:
  - performance work
- RCP:
  - some investigations and discussions about
window types
- tests:
  - splitting up performance and UI tests projects