[eclipse-dev] Planning Meeting Notes - Feb 8, 2006

[Mike Wilson <Mike_Wilson@xxxxxxxxxx>]

[ The IBM Ottawa developers are all at a technical
seminar tomorrow, so there may not be a call. Next week for sure! ]


----------
 Reminder
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- Eclipse committer rep vote is underway.  Committers
should have received a message from the foundation with instructions on
how to vote.  Voting ends at the end of next week.

----------
 Outreach
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- Doug at Eclipse in Motion seminar in Dallas
- Wassim attended the Code Clinic in San Diego

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 Status
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Debug:
- bug fixing & triage
- EclipseCon prep

Platform/JDT Text:
- 3.2 M5 testing
- eclipseCon tutorial preparation
- more statistics information for performance tests
(in progress)
- added API and extension point for quick assist and
quick fix support
  to Platform Text, implementation to be done
for 3.2 M6
- finished investigation of dark red performance tests
(filed bugs)
- deprecated Platform Text field assist support in
favor of new
  Platform UI support
- bug fixing
- bugzilla inbox tracking

JDT UI:
- JUnit view: released support for history and concurrent
test runs
- reviewed patches for JUnit4 integration
- feedback for fieldassist infrastructure
- implemented first draft of a refactoring wizard
which is able to fix
  deprecated code:
  - leave delegate deprecates the delegate and
stores a refactoring
    script in the project folder
  - corresponding quick fix fetches refactoring
script if available and
    executes the necessary refactorings
- continued implementing Extract Supertype
- Pull Up now performs supertype analysis (like the
refactoring Use
  Supertype)
- clean up wizard using tab folders
- performance testing:
  - bugs 126709, 120195, 127105, 126691
  - improved ScopeAnalyzer (JDT UI)
- finalized LTK Core/UI API
- extended quickFix/Assist extension point to work
with non-jdt.core
  problems contributed by reconcile participants
- M5 test plan and testing

Search:
- continuing work on the new text search result view

JDT Core:
- 3.2M5 validation
- eclipseCon preparation
- added option for codeassist filtering out deprecated
proposals
- null reference static analysis officially made available.
Note that 
  the analysis is fairly conservative, aligned
on definite assignment 
  rules. It is intentionally not complaining
on all possible cases, but 
  only considering these for which a suspicion
gets introduced (e.g. if 
  later on a null check is performed). The analysis
could be further 
  improved by introducing annotations (@CanBeNull,
@CannotBeNull) but 
  these would need to get standardized first.
Null reference warnings 
  can be silenced using @SuppressWarnings("null")

- improved codeassist variable name completion, based
on eclipsezone
  discussion -- http://www.eclipsezone.com/eclipse/forums/m91983480.html
- changed the way to flag DOM AST nodes as RECOVERED:
  Now only nodes which really contains added/removed/replaced
tokens are 
  flagged. A parent of these kind of node isn't
flagged. Sometimes our 
  heuristic can't recognize the really recovered
node, so in this case 
  all potentially recovered nodes are flagged.

- added constants in the code formatter   
  @see DefaultCodeFormatterConstants#FORMATTER_INDENT_BODY_DECLARATIONS_COMPARE_TO_ANNOTATION_DECLARATION_HEADER
   
  @see DefaultCodeFormatterConstants#FORMATTER_INSERT_NEW_LINE_IN_EMPTY_ANNOTATION_DECLARATION

- added API org.eclipse.jdt.core.CorrectionEngine#getAllWarningTokens()

  to get all the valid warning tokens, which
can be used into 
  @SuppressWarnings annotations
- the Java model now better accommodates very big
JAR files (i.e. containing 
  lots of packages). Before 3.2 M5, such JAR
files would cause the Java model 
  cache to overflow frequently, which induced
poor performance, since the 
  same JAR file kept being read over and over
again. A workaround was to 
  start Eclipse with more memory to enjoy good
performance again (as the 
  cache size is a function of the memory size).
JAR files are now read more 
  selectively, and thus interesting portions
remain in the cache longer 
  without consuming lots of memory. User editing
experience is thus
  significantly improved on large workspaces
containing big JARs. As a
  consequence, our experiments show that the
memory requirement for
  developing Eclipse in Eclipse can be lowered
to 128MB only (i.e.
  passing -Xmx128m to the VM) as opposed to 256MB
as currently specified
  in the eclipse.ini file. 
- bug fixing

PDE Build:
- integration of multiple repository support patch
- released initial code to build product headless

Equinox:
- final API reviews for API freeze
- M5
- planning for M6
- last minute Valentine Day shopping

Platform UI:
- general:
  - progress view support
  - wrote JUnit tests for bug 126402
  - more work on adoption of field decoratoration
and undo/redo
- API: 
  - general API cleanliness checking
  - added ViewerComparator API class to support
ICU4J adoption by platform, 
    allows passing of an ICU implementation
of java.util.Comparator 
  - finalizing the API (schema) definition for
trim extensions
  - updated the org.eclipse.ui.menus extension
point schema to include 
    the 'layout' element for use by trim
widgets
  - added a new class 'AbstractTrimWidget' (implements
IWidget) to
    encapsulate the API needed to support
trim that can change location
  - FilteredTree/PatternFilter API revisions
  - added API to allow plugins to veto shutdown
(bug 71701)
- bug fixing:
  - problems view
- builds:
  - ICU4J build changes: 
    - ICU team can now contribute plugins
as pre-built jars
- Commands:
  - finalizing API for 3.2
  - moved provisional API into internal packages
  - more requests from User Assistance for commands
  - working on trim contributed through the menus
extension point
  - finishing up deprecating of IKeyBindingService
  - added help context identifiers to handlers
and commands
- JFace:
  - applied patch to push down LocalSelectionTransfer
to JFace (bug 127029)
- logical model support / common navigator:
  - porting Model Explorer example to Common
Navigator
- RCP:
  - applied custom coolbar presentation patch
(bug 123257) 

User Assistance:
- linkability:
  - more commands added to support linkability
(opening dialogs)
  - will provide a simple command authoring utility
to be posted on the
    UA homepage
- cheat sheets:
  - Composite cheat sheets fully released into
HEAD
  - API finalized
- Help:
  - finished adding filtering to TOC and context
help
  - added API for filtering UA elements
  - added ability to insert single element into
anchor, instead of whole
    document (welcome, help XHTML)
  - improved ordering of root TOCs using categories
  - testing/bug fixing
- Welcome:
  - working on Universal Welcome CSSs and Welcome
customization
    preference page

PDE:
- more enhancements for the 'Named Targets' plan items:
  - PDE plan items are done for the release:
- added 'Organize Manifests' wizard under PDE Tools:
  - it will check all the manifests and make
sure they are healthy
- bug fixing