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

[Mike Wilson <Mike_Wilson@xxxxxxxxxx>]

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 Discussion Topic 
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Rel Eng.:
- M6 retrospective

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 Status 
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Platform UI:
- trim:
   - fast view manager
- BIDI:
  - verification
- status handler:
  - bug fixing
  - testing
- selection dialog:
  - testing
- commands:
  - performance
  - menu migration
- general performance work throughout the UI
- tabs:
  - tab colouring
- bug fixing

Debug:
- M6 test pass, new & noteworthy
- bug fixing & triage
- analysis of performance test failures

JDT Core:
- verified all M6 bugs
- test pass on M6
- new and noteworthy
- reviewed API. This led to 3 last API changes:
  - MethodReferenceMatch.isPolymorphic() was
removed since it was added after 
    3.2 and later deprecated
  - a typo was fixed: JavaCore#setCompilanceOptions(String,
Map) was renamed 
    to JavaCore#setComplianceOptions(String,
Map)
  - the visibility of RecoveredTypeBinding and
RecoveredVariableBinding has 
    been changed to package default since
they should not be used by clients
- bug fixing has resumed after M6 was declared

JDT UI:
- M6
- updated org.junit4 to JUnit 4.2
- investigated memory leaks
- improved organize import performance
- nearly finished swapping out old JUnit test runs
to disk
- bug fixing

Platform/JDT Text:
- shipped 3.3 M6
- 3.3 M7 planning
- added word navigation on mouse down + drag
- investigated time to reproduce full build bug
- added code to prevent duplicate AST creation when
open class file editor
- started to investigate gray/red performance tests
- bug fixing
- inbox tracking

Workspace:
- M6 finalization
- M7 planing
- show Compare Editor Structure in Outline view
- added Compare As Text to Binary Compae viewer
- other polish bugs

PDE:
- kicked off M7 with Product Editor Theme Week to
make the product
  editor/export 3.3-ready
- 14 bugs fixed in one day (may be a new record. we
have to check
  with Guinness)
- polish/bug fixing in the 'Add to Java search' area
- added performance tests, but may result in false
red on the
  Performance results page because the build.properties
for the
  backported tests was incomplete

User Assistance:
- started work on the display of intro when the new
features with
  intro content are installed
- testing and bug fixing

Rel. Eng.:
- M6 Milestone Madness
- released M6 plugins to basebuilder and running test
builds
- added WPF port to build
- consuming additional Orbit bundles in build
- submitting M6 to Europa
- testing patching process
- bug triage