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

[Mike Wilson <Mike_Wilson@xxxxxxxxxx>]

[ Sorry, I'm late this week. I was off on Monday and
am still trying to get caught up. ]

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 Outreach 
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- Eclipse in Motion event in Atlanta (John A)

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 Status
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Runtime:
- sanitizing JMX and bundle/resource management code
for release into the
  incubator project
- PDE Build fix for invalid warning generated by access
rules
- Update planning on a Callisto focus
- performance, performance, performance
- released the bundle signing support
- bug fixing
- no new haircuts

Platform/JDT Text:
- Javadoc hover is shown in Browser widget
- Revision hover is shown in Browser widget
- eclipseCon tutorial preparation (in progress)
- bug fixing
- bugzilla inbox tracking
- holidays

Debug:
- bug fixing
- replaced view action delegates in debug view toolbar/context
menu with
  single IAction's
- performance:
  - re-working performance tests that are statistically
invalid
  - discovered/fixed memory leak in JDI client
- investigating BIDI bug in console (129908)
- menu polishing:
  - grouping of actions in "Layout"
submenus
- released initial (internal provisional) support
for columns in
  asynchronous debug views

JDT/UI:
- refactorings:
  - enabled inline for binary methods (if source
attachment is available)
  - move method allows to move methods to generic
types with matching type
    parameters
  - added location history to Replace JAR, Create
Script and Apply Script
  - performance of refactoring history, refactoring
history UI
- views:
  - Java @category filter for outline view (view
menu)
  - interface/enum/annotation decoration on class
files and compilation
  unit (experimental)
- code manipulation:
  - clean up: remove brackets for control statements
that only consist of
   'return' and 'throws'
  - change filters for Clean Up Wizard preview
page
  - working on improving NLS tooling
  - separate comment templates for overridden
methods and delegates
  - hashCode() and equals() can be regenerated
(overwrites existing ones)
- junit:
  - fixed notification of JUnit test run listeners
with concurrent test runs
- bug fixing
- EclipseCon preparation

Workspace:
- fine-tuning history view categories
- support for change sets in model synchronization
(in progress)
- support for stand-alone use of EFS

Rel. Eng.:
- ongoing work on build process optimization
- testing fixes in PDE Build, adopting in builds
- incorporate new com.ibm.icu.base plug-ins into build
as separate
  download

Platform UI:
- general:
  - working on integrating trim with the new
'menus' extension point
  - performance work on Bug 114363 and Bug 126901
  - performance: changes to make FilteredTree
better for large trees 
    - see bug 128233
  - reviewing some of the work on time-based
editor saving (Bug 34076)
  - integrating next version of ICU4J (3.4.3)
- bug fixing:
  - SubMenuManager visibility problem (Bug 128293)
  - sizing of key assist dialog (Bug 90971)
- logical model support:
  - worked on properties view
- JFace:
  - added animating message area for errors (thanks
Dejan for inspiration):
    - will be doing this for preferences
next
- Problems view:
  - performance work

JDT/Core:
- performance work: 
  - mprovements made in scanning, DOM AST creation
and indexing
- compilation participant reporting problems using

  BuildContext#recordNewProblems(...) now need
to declare the problems
  marker type as being managed for this problems
to be persisted as
  markers by the Java builder. Declaring a managed
marker type is done
  using the 'managedMarker' sequence in the 'compilationParticipant'
  extension point
- compiler now supports @SuppressWarnings("cast")
for silencing
  unnecessary cast diagnostics
- bug fixing