[eclipse-dev] Planning Meeting Notes - April 11, 2007

[Mike Wilson <Mike_Wilson@xxxxxxxxxx>]

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 Discussion Topic
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Polish:
- weekly polish discussion item:
  - toolbar items: which items should be removed? In particular,
    do you agree removing the 'New Java project' toolbar item?

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 Status
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Platform UI:
- error handling:
  - conversion of Jobs framework to new error handling
- bug fixing
- performance work:
  - commands
  - viewers

Debug:
- bug fixing
- polish items:
  - launch config attributes persisted in consistent order (bug 180756)
  - stack frame not selected/suspended thread collapses (bug 177910)
  - resume in loop selects another thread (180667)
- investigating performance issues:
  - performance tests are passing again
  - JRE classpath container initialization when using access rules
  - toString() details in large workspace
- font preference for variables/registers view
- working on scroll issue in registers view while stepping (bug 177909)

Platform/JDT Text:
- provided patches for some leak bugs in other components
- submitted and assessed polish items
- assessing existing >=major performance bugs [in progress]
- investigated time to reproduce full build bug
- investigated performance problems/regressions in Text land [in progress]
- bug fixing
- inbox tracking
- 2 public holidays
- 1 day vacation

JDT Core:
- bug fixing
- improved reconcile and DOM AST performance
- investigating yellow in performance results
- attempting to understand what the following means:
  - "There is not enough evidence to reject the null hypothesis
     at the 90% level (Student's t-test)."

JDT APT:
- we have shifted focus of the JSR269 effort: support in IDE is
  deprioritized, javac compliance in batch compilation is now #1
  priority.

Workspace:
- working on polish items identified by 3.3 polish pass and other
  polish items
- ironing out issues relatd to SOCKS proxies

JDT UI:
- bug fixing:
  - fixed rename and quick fix problems with Unicode literals
    and comments/whitespace in qualified references
- performance:
  - improved activation performance of Inline refactorings
    (reusing shared AST if possible)
  - improved organize import performance
- sort members on multiple files

Polish:
- compiling polish items list

UA:
- highlighting new features in Welcome complete; we are
  still tweaking the highlighting styles
- going over the UA inbox, prioritizing

PDE:
- wrapping up PDE views
- wrapping up cheat sheet editors
- prioritizing and tagging PDE polish list items
- fixing performance problems
- bug fixes (32 bugs in one week!)

Install/Update:
- bug fixing

Equinox:
- Ganymede Provisioning Workshop
- Orbit - started work on app to process IP Log for web page presentation
- performance work
- started legal work for putting the ProSyst contribution into the Equinox
Incubator
- bug triage
- bug fixing for M7