[eclipse-dev] Planning Meeting Notes - Apr 14, 2010

[John Arthorne <John_Arthorne@xxxxxxxxxx>]

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 Discussion Topics
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can we get a pseudo translated version of Eclipse
for testing? (Chris G)

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 Status 
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Performances:
- 3.6 perf tests:
  - automatic generation of page results is back
:-)
    Thanks to Kim for having fixed this
annoying issue!
  - builds verification (all scenarios):
    - N20100410-2000: nothing new
    - N20100412-2000: nothing new
    - I20100413-1521: not finished yet

Platform Workspace:
- fixing performance issues
- Bug 297635 - Discard
saved states if they are never processed [in
progress]
- Bug 305202 - [Sync
View][Apply Patch] Introduce "Ignore Leading Path Segments" option
in sync view [in progress]
- Bug 301820 - Resource
Filters UI is not intuitive [in progress]
- improving performance - Bug 289617 - ContentTypePerformanceTest#testNameMatching()
regression [fixed, waiting for perf test results]

Platform UI:
- Open Resource: Fixed camel case issues and added
doc
- Mac: Command+Q now confirms quit (bug 283345)

JDT UI
- Package and Project Explorer now show special icon
for build path errors
- fixed several BiDi, DBCS and surrogate related issues
- investigated performance problems in Debug related
to breakpoints (too many ASTs created)
- bug fixing
- inbox tracking

Platform Text and JDT Text
- fixed several BiDi, DBCS and surrogate related issues
- huge performance improvement for WordRule in ignoreCase
mode
- bug fixing
- inbox tracking

JDT APT:
  - inbox, bugzilla, newsgroups, conf calls.

SWT
- installed the latest Ubuntu 10.04 beta
   - initial testing indicates that swt/eclipse
are working here similar to on Ubuntu 9.10
- WebKitGTK+ implementation of Browser is ready for
use
   - as of the latest nightly build the
minimum required WebKitGTK+ version is 1.1.90, which the Ubuntu 10.04 beta
has
   - instructions to use it: (note: will
make this info available in a more visible public place)
      - add "Device.DEBUG = true"
before instantiating first Browser, so native browser version will be printed
to stdout
      - set java property "org.eclipse.swt.browser.UseWebKitGTK"
to "true"
      - create the Browser with style
SWT.NONE
- accessibility work continues
   - have acquired new versions of WindowEyes,
Supernova and NVDA to help with IA2 testing
- CSS engine work for e4's M5 release last week
- added @noreference annotations to public-visibility
non-API fields/methods (all of these had loud pre-existing "this is
not API" javadoc)
- various bug fixes, including:
   - 128184 : cannot view site with invalid
certificate
   - 308188 : [BiDi] Java editor - wrong
position of caret when typing Hebrew data

Releng:
-honoured to be a new member of the Eclipse Foundation's
architecture council
-testing generating source references in build  https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=305157
-testing new bundles to support various bug fixes
-trying to fix performance results generation seehttps://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=297310
-updating feature licenses
-fighting with CVS
-bug fixing

User Assistance: 
- Help view scope dialog updated for criteria 
- Assessing status of remaining bugs with 3.6 target, some may need to
be defer

Debug:
- bug fixing

PDE:
- adding feature based launch support to OSGi launch
configurations
- support to re-use SDK's metadata when exporting
- improving error messages from PDE build when compilation
errors exist
- continuing work on embedding source URLs in binary
bundles
- investigating test failures
- bug fixing/triage

Equinox:
- Fixed feature licenses
- Minor polish on p2 API
- Fixed 233469 - unable to move plugins between dropins
and plugins
- Fixed 308934 - force uninstall of bundles deleted
from dropins