[eclipse-dev] Planning Meeting Notes - Mar 20, 2007

[Mike Wilson <Mike_Wilson@xxxxxxxxxx>]

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 Status 
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JDT APT team:
 - working on JSR269 type system; it is like
Swiss cheese, firm but with
   lots of big holes
 - we believe we are API frozen now

Platform UI:
- filtered Items dialog:
  - api work and polish
- status Handling:
  - api work and polish
- menus:
  - API work
  - conversion of workbench to commands
- launcher:
  - new design investigation
- viewers:
  - layout performance
  - api work
- min/max:
  - polish/bug fixing
- tabs:
  - colour improvements
  - drawing work

JDT Core:
- last API requests are in
- test plan is up and testing has started
- new and noteworthy
- bug verifying

Platform/JDT Text:
- working towards 3.3 M6 (testing day, new and noteworthy,...)
- added triple-click support for textual editors
- pushed the Java editor's 'F2' to focus hover feature
down to 
  Platform Text
- pushed the Java editor's tabs to spaces feature
down to Platform
  Text
- added preference to set the background color for
JDT's source
  hovers
- adopted various API changes/additions form other
teams
- bug fixing
- inbox tracking

Equinox:
- M6 testing
- final API changes for 3.3
- work on test plan
- M6 testing
- Orbit:
  - getting ready for Orbit milestone
  - contributing more bundles
  - defining IP log file
  - work out problems with wrapper bundles
- work in new provisioning story
- bug triage
- bug fixing

Debug:
- bug fixing
- J2SE6 Force early return feature
- support to export Java debug logical structures
- contextual launch will be *off* by default in M6
pending bug 177303
- M6 test pass

JDT UI:
- image decorations for 'volatile' and ''transient'
- API discussions and requests & consuming new
APIs
- working on better quick fix support for generics
- fixes for Open Type
- worked on swapping old JUnit test runs to disk 
- bug fixing
- core expressions:
  - reviewed and released patches
  - new API to adapt to iterator and count expressions


PDE:
- splash screen templates
- polish and tightening of the launchers
- adoption of the F2 support from the platform
- M6 preparation
- bug fixing

User Assistance:
- help now running on Equinox HTTP service (Jetty),
no longer using Tomcat
- welcome has new icons in the SDK content
- samples have been refreshed for 3.3 to remove warnings
- reviewed and tested the API changes to allow Welcome
to open when new features are installed
- stress-testing the index view using very large index
data
- M6 preparation
- testing and bug fixing