[eclipse-dev] Planning Meeting Notes - 30 Nov 2011

[Curtis Windatt <Curtis_Windatt@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Planning Meeting Notes
30 November 2011

JDT UI, JDT Text
- continued work on showing matching brackets in Overview ruler
- continued work on hover for matching brackets
- continued work on support for attaching a pre-built index to a library
- bug fixing
- vacation

SWT
- gtk3 work
    - several patches from Alex (Red Hat) committed
    - Cairo graphics work continuing
- TIFF Group 4 work continuing
- fix released to 3.7.2/4.1.2 streams:
    - bug 363084 - NPE can occur when closing Browser in
detached view
- new accessibility wiki page: http://wiki.eclipse.org/Accessibility
- several 3.8/4.2-stream bug fixes, in particular in the areas of Cocoa
and Accessibility

JDT/Core
- Coding work completed on supporting
pre-built indexes.
- Code review and performance characterization in progress.
- On discussion with stake holders to understand how important
 it is to support compressed index files packaged in a jar as
 this could mean some performance degradation during search.
- If you have strong opinions for/against compressed indexes
 in a jar, share them by responding to
 https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=356620#c39
- Code review and final testing for improved null analysis support
 via annotations: https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=186342
- Vacations,
- Inbox tracking, newsgroups, etc …

Performances
- Need some more baseline runs and runs to filter out noises.

Platform Workspace
- Bug 363048 - Moving project into its subfolder deletes it when project
name is also changed [in progress]
- Bug 356448 - Allow GitProjectSetCapability to accept SCM URIs [in progress],
blocker for Bug 327381 - Add support for Eclipse-SourceReferences header
- inbox tracking

PDE
- API Tools test failures in M builds caused by backported JDT Core fix
(365132)
- Continued work on target per project (159072)
- Inbox triage, bug fixing

Releng
-Test builds for autotagging maintenance streams
-Test builds for new bundles and dealing with the subsequent corrupted
project
-preparing for Git migration of remaining releng and feature projects
-attended Eclipse 10th birthday party in Ottawa